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Renaissance notation knives
If you reach into more remote corners of the RISM database, you will find music that won’t exactly fit on your music stand. Back in 2013 we shared a musical table with you, an etched slab of stone containing the two-part motet “Solve jubente Deo” for six voices by Giovanni...
13 November 2025 – Collections de bibliothèques
Music prints and manuscripts from the Donaueschingen court library now fully accessible online
The following text by Gerrit Heim first appeared on BLBlog and is reprinted here with kind permission. With the music archive, the government of Baden-Württemberg purchased yet another valuable collection from the Princely Fürstenberg Court Library in Donaueschingen in 1999. The acquisition was primarily funded by the Baden-Württemberg Cultural Heritage...
6 November 2025 – Collections de bibliothèques
New Webpage for RISM Data Exports
We would like to announce the availability of a new webpage that provides access to the latest version of the RISM dataset. The page RISM Data Exports is where you can find RISM’s records for sources (the file name beginning with source) and authority records (the files beginning with institution,...
30 October 2025 – Nouveau au RISM
The revision of historical music prints at the LBZ / Pfälzische Landesbibliothek in Speyer
The following guest post is by Daniel Fromme (Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz (LBZ)). He presents a project that we highly recommend others emulate: A significant music collection of the Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz (LBZ) – kept at its Speyer branch, the Pfälzische Landesbibliothek (D-SPlb) – includes modern sheet music editions as well as ca....
23 October 2025 – Collections de bibliothèques
Card indexes of music prints from the RISM offices in Munich and Dresden digitised
The two German offices of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales in Dresden and Munich hold extensive card indexes from the first decades of their activities. The card index of series A/I (“Music prints before 1800”) documents the data collected on music prints owned by institutions in Germany during the...
16 October 2025 – Nouveau au RISM
RISM for Musicians
Although at the time of its founding RISM was designed for libraries and scholars, there are of course many cases where our database can be a particularly valuable resource for musicians. Those who simply want to play from the latest commercial edition of a work will not find what they...
9 October 2025 – Nouveau au RISM
Conference of the RISM Working Group Germany "Music Prints and Digital Transformation"
The RISM Working Group Germany, in collaboration with the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB), is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on 13 and 14 November 2025. Under the title “Music Prints and Digital Transformation: Perspectives on Documentation, Representation and Interconnectivity”, experts from the fields of musicology, book studies, information...
2 October 2025 – Evénements
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel’s Violone Concerto Identified
We have received the following from Darija Andelic-Andzakovic (musicologist and double bass player). Johannes Mathias Sperger (Feldsberg/Valtice, 1750 – Ludwigslust, 1812) is widely known as the composer of 18 concertos for double bass. Sperger’s concertos survive in autograph scores as part of his estate housed at the Landesbibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Günther...
25 September 2025 – Redécourvertes
Private Collections and Libraries - Part 2
In this second part of our introduction to private collections and libraries, we would like to focus on collections that have a long history of continuity, or happen to be relatively young but have already found a safe haven in an institution. In addition, we will also discuss the relocation...
18 September 2025 – Nouveau au RISM
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
