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Using RISM Data to Map Opera Premieres
The following is a guest post by Matthew Lorenzon (Digital Marketing Manager, Musica Viva Australia): I made an animated map of opera premieres from the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) database. Here’s how. The growth of Big Data over the past decades has fed a wave of professional and...
11 September 2025 – A la une
RISM at the Annual Congress of IAML Germany in Dresden
This year, the annual conference of IAML Germany will take place in Dresden. From 16 to 19 September 2025, music librarians primarily from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland will gather at the Central Library of the Städtische Bibliotheken Dresden, in the so-called Kulturpalast. Once again, we are looking forward to a...
4 September 2025 – Evénements
Looking back at IAML Salzburg 2025
Following the meetings in 1967 and 1979, the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centers (IAML) held its annual congress in Salzburg, Austria, for the third time. No doubt also thanks to the alluring location, the congress was well attended, ensuring a broad international audience for the numerous...
21 August 2025 – Evénements
“Zoom In and Find Out”: How a ‘Smart’ Painting Reveals Two Piano Works From London 1806
Sheet music and musical notation in visual art can be many things: the attribute of a musician, composer, or performer, as well as a pictorial element used to suggest a context of music or simply to depict a setting of music-making. But the level of accuracy varies widely, ranging from...
7 August 2025 – Redécourvertes
Felix gives you wings! A previously unknown source of a known Mendelssohn lied
The following post by Roland Schmidt-Hensel was first published on the blog of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz. The manuscript described here can be found in RISM under RISM ID no. 1001329438 (RISM Catalog | RISM Online). Even though Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) left behind more than 100 lieder...
24 July 2025 – Collections de bibliothèques
The four versions of Leonardo Leo’s opera Demetrio
Like many other opera composers of the eighteenth century, Leonardo Leo often set the text of a given “dramma serio” several times, realizing the work in different musical versions. Sorting out the diverse versions of an opera can at times become an arduous musicological task, since the available librettos are...
10 July 2025 – Nouveau au RISM
Le projet de numérisation ciblée ‘Digital Music Unica in Switzerland’ (D-MUS)
Historiquement, la numérisation des publications imprimées - historiques ou récentes - a été initiée il y a plus de 20 ans avec des projets de grande envergure tels que Gallica et Google books. Aujourd’hui, il est nécessaire de lancer des projets ciblés pour documenter spécifiquement des sources plus rares. Comme...
26 June 2025 – Nouveau au RISM
European Capitals of Culture 2025
Each summer we are happy to seize the opportunity offered by the European Capitals of Culture to call attention to a few special musical events or the characteristic musical culture of the regions in question. In 2025 the cultural world is focusing on Chemnitz in Germany and the city of...
12 June 2025 – Evénements
New Contact Page for RISM
We enjoy hearing from our users. Your feedback and expertise help improve the RISM database for users worldwide. The RISM website now has a new page to make contact between our audience and RISM even easier. Please visit RISM’s Contact page to see how to get in touch, whether through...
5 June 2025 – Nouveau au RISM
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
