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

The revision of historical music prints at the LBZ / Pfälzische Landesbibliothek in Speyer

The following guest post is by Daniel Fromme (Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz (LBZ)). He presents a project that we highly recommend others emulate: A significant music collection of the Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz (LBZ) – kept at its Speyer branch, the Pfälzische Landesbibliothek (D-SPlb) – includes modern sheet music editions as well as ca....

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Card indexes of music prints from the RISM offices in Munich and Dresden digitised

The two German offices of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales in Dresden and Munich hold extensive card indexes from the first decades of their activities. The card index of series A/I (“Music prints before 1800”) documents the data collected on music prints owned by institutions in Germany during the...

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RISM for Musicians

Although at the time of its founding RISM was designed for libraries and scholars, there are of course many cases where our database can be a particularly valuable resource for musicians. Those who simply want to play from the latest commercial edition of a work will not find what they...

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Conference of the RISM Working Group Germany "Music Prints and Digital Transformation"

The RISM Working Group Germany, in collaboration with the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB), is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on 13 and 14 November 2025. Under the title “Music Prints and Digital Transformation: Perspectives on Documentation, Representation and Interconnectivity”, experts from the fields of musicology, book studies, information...

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Ignaz Joseph Pleyel’s Violone Concerto Identified

We have received the following from Darija Andelic-Andzakovic (musicologist and double bass player). Johannes Mathias Sperger (Feldsberg/Valtice, 1750 – Ludwigslust, 1812) is widely known as the composer of 18 concertos for double bass. Sperger’s concertos survive in autograph scores as part of his estate housed at the Landesbibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Günther...

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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