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Premier enregistrement de neuf pièces de la Renaissance
L’association bâloise pour la musique ancienne ReRenaissance a publié en décembre 2025 l’album Lost & Found: Rediscovered Treasures of the German Renaissance, réalisé en collaboration avec le RISM Digital Center. Cet enregistrement documente pour la première fois neuf compositions à trois voix imprimées par Christian Egenolff à Francfort en 1536...
5 February 2026 – Redécourvertes
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: ...
29 January 2026 – Evénements
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...
22 January 2026 – A la une
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...
15 January 2026 – A la une
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...
8 January 2026 – Anniversaires
“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...
18 December 2025 – Evénements
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...
11 December 2025 – Collections de bibliothèques
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...
4 December 2025 – Nouveau au RISM
How to Integrate RISM Searches on Your Website
Have you ever launched RISM searches directly from the rism.info website? You simply enter a phrase in the search box at the top of the page, hit Enter – and you can view the results right away in RISM Online or the RISM Catalog (depending on your preset choice). Since...
27 November 2025 – RISM Digital Center
A New Catalog of Medieval Hymn Melodies in Manuscripts in France by Christian Meyer Published as RISM B/XIX/1
No genre of sacred music is more ubiquitous than the hymn, which has embellished the worship services of every Christian confession from Antiquity to the present day, yet no genre is more difficult to catalogue than the medieval Latin hymn, because some hymns with the same text were sung to...
20 November 2025 – Nouveautés
