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Popes in RISM

On 8 May 2025, Robert Francis Prevost was elected the 267th head of the Roman Catholic Church. The new pope chose the name Leo XIV, and celebrated the inauguration mass of his pontificate on May 18. Of the approximately 150,000 personal names in the RISM database, composers tend to receive...

28 May 2025 – Nouveau au RISM

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RISM at the 2025 IAML Congress in Salzburg, Austria

This year’s annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres will take place in Salzburg, Austria. Please look at the IAML Salzburg page on our website for the RISM events during the week: a RISM session, a meeting with the Coordinating Committee and the Commission...

22 May 2025 – Evénements

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Private collections and libraries

The following contribution presents the first part of a two-part news item meant as a first introduction to private collections and libraries. RISM currently (as of 13 May 2025) lists 9,122 library sigla. Of these, 637 refer to private collections or libraries, i.e. just over 7 % of all our...

15 May 2025 – Nouveau au RISM

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Antonio Salieri 1825-2025

The following is a guest post from Elena Biggi Parodi (professor of music history and historiography at the Conservatorio “A. Boito” in Parma) May 7, 2025 marks the bicentenary of the death of Antonio Salieri, the last royal imperial Kapellmeister of the Habsburg court in Vienna. Thanks to his prestigious...

7 May 2025 – Evénements

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Finding Unica in the RISM Database

The ability to trace the distribution of musical sources is one of the strengths of the RISM database. Music manuscripts are by their very nature unique, while any given printed edition potentially exists in multiple copies. Finding those printed editions that have only survived in a single known copy has...

2 May 2025 – Nouveau au RISM

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How to Cite RISM

Many publications, whether online or in print, use their own style guides. However, citation styles frequently do not capture the nuances of historic music manuscripts and printed editions, making it difficult to identify the item with absolute clarity. RISM has recommendations for researchers and librarians when citing musical sources, including...

24 April 2025 – Nouveau au RISM

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The Paul Hirsch Music Collection

The following was originally published on the Music Blog of the British Library (Creative Commons Attribution Licence): The Paul Hirsch Music Collection at the British Library is one of the most outstanding discrete collections of printed music held within the Library.[1] It is accompanied by the Paul Hirsch Papers, which...

17 April 2025 – Collections de bibliothèques

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Woelfl-Haus Bonn: A Center for Music and Research

A catalog of Joseph Woelfl’s works, listing no fewer than 620 compositions, was first published in 2011 (RISM short title: HaiW - RISM Catalog | RISM Online). Its second edition will be made available online at the end of 2025, as well as in print the following year. In 2022,...

10 April 2025 – Collections de bibliothèques

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New Research Guide on Robert Schumann

The following post originally appeared on the “In the Muse” blog from the Library of Congress. The Music Division is pleased to announce the publication of a new research guide outlining the Library’s rich primary and secondary sources concerning Robert Schumann. Schumann (1810–1856) was an influential composer, pianist, and music...

3 April 2025 – Collections de bibliothèques

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EarlyMuse Report Available Online

Last May several representatives of the larger RISM community traveled to Wrocław to participate in a three-day meeting of the EarlyMuse network that seeks to establish “A new ecosystem of early music studies.” While we already published a brief account of this event, it may be of interest for many...

27 March 2025 – Nouveau au RISM

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