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.

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Peruvian opera and music of the Incas: the legacy of José María Valle-Riestra

We have received the following from Giancarlo Carreño Arce (Universidad Nacional de Música, Lima, Peru). (Spanish translation at the bottom of the article) November 9, 2026 marks the 168th birthday of José María Valle-Riestra, who is considered one of the most important composers in Peruvian history. He was among the...

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9th International Conference on Watermarks in Digital Collections at the Bavarian State Library

From 15 to 17 October 2026, experts in the humanities, information technology, and materials science met at the Bavarian State Library for this year’s Bernstein Conference, the 9th International Conference on Watermarks in Digital Collections. One of the inspirations for this conference was the approaching completion of a project funded...

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Eliza Hamilton Dunlop and Early Music Printing in Australia

Anonymous pieces present their own set of bibliographic challenges, and recently we stumbled upon one song with a trio of unknowns: no composer, an unidentified poet, and an unfamiliar publisher. The song was “The Irish volunteers,” published in Sydney, Australia (RISM ID no. 990071461; RISM Online | RISM Catalog). Given...

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New Catalog of Johann Adolf Hasse's Instrumental Works

Wolfgang Hochstein – familiar to connoisseurs of 18th-century music as the author of the standard catalog of Niccolò Jommelli’s sacred compositions – has created yet another indispensable and long-overdue reference work: a thematic catalog of the instrumental works attributed to Johann Adolf Hasse (Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der unter dem Namen von...

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Networks of Composers in RISM B/I Anthologies

The following text provides a short summary of the paper “The Early Modern Music Club. A Social Network Analysis of RISM B/I Anthologies” presented at this year’s MedRen conference (Warsaw University, 6–10 July 2026). The authors would like to thank the MedRen 2026 organizers for a cleverly assembled, well-moderated, and...

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