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Introducing the RISM Editorial Network
The Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) was officially founded in 1952, at the first meeting of a Commission mixte including delegates from the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML). This historic meeting took place in Paris, and it was there, in the Bibliothèque...
1 July 2026 – Nouveau au RISM
The José Bernardo Alzedo Collection and more Peruvian sources now in RISM
We have received the following from Giancarlo Carreño Arce (Universidad Nacional de Música, Lima, Peru), who started to contribute the first Peruvian manuscript descriptions to RISM in 2025 (Spanish below): José Bernardo Alzedo (1788–1878) was a musician born in Lima, Peru. He began his musical education at a young age...
25 June 2026 – Collections de bibliothèques
Franz Liszt's Donaueschingen Ländler
This text was inspired by a more comprehensive blog post by Wolfgang Seibold: “1843: Liszt in Karlsruhe,” published on the BLBlog on 11 March 2026. In October 1843, after extensive concert tours in Switzerland, Italy, and especially France, the celebrated – though at times also demonized and caricatured – piano...
17 June 2026 – Collections de bibliothèques
RISM at the 2026 IAML Congress in Thessaloniki, Greece
This year’s annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece. Please look at the IAML Thessaloniki page on our website for the RISM events during the week: a RISM session, meetings of the Coordinating Committee, Commission Mixte, and RISM...
11 June 2026 – Evénements
Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of Carl Maria von Weber’s death
Carl Maria von Weber died on 5 June 1826, at the age of 40 in London, where he had premiered his final opera, Oberon, König der Elfen, at the Haymarket Theatre just a few months earlier. The original English title was actually Oberon, or the Elf King’s Oath, and librettist...
5 June 2026 – Anniversaires
Private collections and libraries - Part 3
In the final part of our news series on private collections and libraries, we would like to call your attention to a new feature in the search for private collections. When you search among the institutions on RISM Online, you can select the “Private collection” option in the “Type of...
28 May 2026 – Nouveau au RISM
The month of May in music
“In the beautiful month of May” – thus goes the first line of a well-known poem by Heinrich Heine, which Robert Schumann set to music to open his song cycle “Dichterliebe.” This Lied is arguably one of the best known of its kind and would certainly rank among the most...
21 May 2026 – Evénements
The “Bußpsalmencodex” of Albrecht V exhibited in Munich on 20 and 21 May
It is too large to be considered a typical devotional book. Too precious to be used in church services. Too sophisticated in its illustrations to serve merely as a representative work, and too unsystematic in its presentation of knowledge to meet the standards of an encyclopaedia. (Andrea Gottdang in...
7 May 2026 – Evénements
Deux catalogues thématiques natifs du numérique
Deux catalogues thématiques nativement numériques consacrés aux compositeurs Francesco Pollini et Luigi Cherubini ont récemment été publiés. Ils viennent s’ajouter au nombre croissant de versions numériques de catalogues thématiques traditionnels consultables sur la plateforme de recherche RISM Online. Directement reliés à la base de données de descriptions de sources musicales,...
30 April 2026 – RISM Digital Center
The music collection of Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Meiningen, at the Meiningen Museums
The Max Reger Archive (RISM siglum: D-MEIr) forms part of the Music History Collection of the Meiningen Museums and includes musical collections of various provenances. One of these formerly belonged to Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Meiningen (1687–1763). During his sojourns in Vienna (ca. 1720–1740), Anton Ulrich had more than 100...
23 April 2026 – Collections de bibliothèques
