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Music manuscripts from Cologne now linked to digitized copies
One of the major benefits of the RISM database is the option to link the description of manuscripts and printed editions with digitized copies of the original sources, thereby allowing users to access right away the items of interest to them. A while ago the Cologne University and City Library...
19 March 2026 – Collections de bibliothèques
Oratorio libretti in the CRAI Library of the University of Barcelona and their music
The CRAI Biblioteca de Fons Antic at the University of Barcelona houses an extensive collection of libretti, including a group of 173 titles once performed in the Cathedral of Barcelona. However, the music associated with these texts is scattered across various libraries, some of them in Catalonia, and until recently...
12 March 2026 – Redécourvertes
Annual Report 2025
Approaching the closure of a decades-long project for which the RISM Editorial Center received support from the German Akademienprogramm, throughout the year 2025 we were busy clarifying how the core services earlier offered by the Editorial Center (better known as RISM Zentralredaktion) could be ensured in the future. While in...
5 March 2026 – Nouveautés
Special exhibition with new Bach sources from Leipzig
In a special exhibition, the Leipzig City Archive (in cooperation with the Leipzig Bach Archive and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig) presents recently discovered and yet unknown sources in regard to Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Christoph Gottsched and Georg Philipp Telemann. The following exhibition announcement is reproduced with...
26 February 2026 – Evénements
Unknown music from Central and South America in the so-called 'Old Schott Archive' of the Mainz-based publishing house B. Schott's Söhne
As part of the joint project “Cataloging, digitization and online presentation of the historical archive of the music publisher Schott,” in 2025 the Bavarian State Library completed the cataloging of the so-called “Old Schott Archive” in the RISM database. This task was carried out with funding by the German Research...
19 February 2026 – Collections de bibliothèques
IAML Online Event "Researching and Cataloging Historical Bookbindings: Two Perspectives"
The following has reached us from the IAML Online Events Committee. The IAML Online Events Committee and the Research Libraries Section are pleased to announce a new 2026 online event on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at 14:00 UTC/GMT. See other time zones by clicking here. Participation is free and open...
12 February 2026 – Evénements
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
