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IAML Deutschland conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 17-20 September 2024. Details here
Le Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) est une organisation internationale à but non lucratif qui vise à documenter de manière exhaustive les sources musicales existantes dans le monde entier : manuscrits, musique imprimée, écrits sur la théorie musicale et livrets, que l’on trouve dans les bibliothèques, les archives, les églises, les écoles et les collections privées. Le RISM a été fondé à Paris en 1952 et est la plus grande et la seule organisation mondiale qui documente les sources musicales écrites. Le RISM enregistre ce qui existe et où l’on peut le trouver.
Upcoming events
IAML Deutschland conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 17-20 September 2024. Details here
Chercher par sigle pour les bibliothèques, archives et collections possédant des fonds musicaux historiques
Bibliotécaires, trouvez ici ce que le RISM vous offre
Tout sur Muscat, Le programme spécialisé du RISM pour le catalogage des sources musicales
Made by Haydn?
In their Studies on Works Falsely Attributed to Joseph Haydn the above question is raised by Prof. Dr. Arnold Jacobshagen (Cologne University of Music and Dance, Institute for Historical Musicology) as well as project collaborators Dr. Susanne Schrage, Silke Schloen, and Ioannis Tsiliakis. Researchers scrutinizing the sources of Haydn’s compositions...
Musical Anniversaries in 2026
Happy New Year! As in past years, we are using the beginning of the year to look at significant anniversaries of birth or death for people found in RISM. We are listing not only our RISM composers, but also librettists, performers, dedicatees, or other people who are connected to a...
“Christmas” by Engelbert Humperdinck
In the past two years our last news items presented musical greetings for the New Year: a tiny chorus by Carl Eberwein preserved in the collection of the Berlin Sing-Akademie, and a playful vocal bagatelle by Luigi Cherubini, apparently dedicated to his friend Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, a famous collector of decorative...
New at the Bibliotheca Mozartiana of the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in Salzburg - Mozart Autographs of the Eggers Collection
It is the fate of most private collections that the treasures brought together over a long period of time, are dispersed again. In former days typically in one single auction, nowadays often artificially prolonged over as series of sales so as not to saturate the market. Many of the Mozart...
Searching by Instrumentation in RISM
For musicians, one of the most helpful features of the RISM database is the ability to search by instrumentation. We have put together a new page to help you navigate RISM’s instrument abbreviations. We also offer detailed instructions on how to search by instrument in both the RISM Catalog and...
Upcoming events
IAML Deutschland conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 17-20 September 2024. Details here
Chercher par sigle pour les bibliothèques, archives et collections possédant des fonds musicaux historiques
Bibliotécaires, trouvez ici ce que le RISM vous offre
Tout sur Muscat, Le programme spécialisé du RISM pour le catalogage des sources musicales