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

Sigles de bibliothèques

Chercher par sigle pour les bibliothèques, archives et collections possédant des fonds musicaux historiques

Pour le bibliothèques

Bibliotécaires, trouvez ici ce que le RISM vous offre

Muscat

Tout sur Muscat, Le programme spécialisé du RISM pour le catalogage des sources musicales

Actualité

Looking back on 2025

As in past years, we are using the beginning of a new year to take stock of the previous year and share what was most popular with our website readers. These are the year’s blog posts that were read the most often, according to our website statistics:      ...

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The Musical Public Domain in 2026

Every year, the public domain grows, enriching the pool of works that can be drawn upon to inspire creativity. In law, the “public domain” refers to works without copyright, usually because copyright has expired. In most of the European Union, the works of people who died in 1955 are now...

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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...

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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...

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“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...

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Upcoming events

IAML Deutschland conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 17-20 September 2024. Details here

Sigles de bibliothèques

Chercher par sigle pour les bibliothèques, archives et collections possédant des fonds musicaux historiques

Pour le bibliothèques

Bibliotécaires, trouvez ici ce que le RISM vous offre

Muscat

Tout sur Muscat, Le programme spécialisé du RISM pour le catalogage des sources musicales