Archive des actualités
Newly discovered collection from Sennfeld (Franconia) to be cataloged
We have received the following from Gottfried Heinz-Kronberger (RISM Germany, Munich office): Jörg Wöltche (Church Music Director, Deanery of Schweinfurt) has committed himself to cataloging for RISM a collection of handwritten music material dating between 1788 and 1812 that was discovered in 2018. The trove of 149 church cantatas and...
10 March 2022 – Redécourvertes
International Women's Day: Women Pianists in RISM
In 2018 we published a post about women pianists in RISM to celebrate International Women’s Day. Since then, the number of women pianists in RISM has grown from 250 to over 400. All the more reason to give you an update. Since RISM is a database that documents specific sources...
8 March 2022 – Evénements
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Embedded in a Worldwide Network: Projects of the Ukrainian RISM Working Group
Ukraine still features a number of music collections especially in the western part of the country, in venerable Lviv. The musical sources that are preserved in this multiethnic and multiconfessional trading town represent several music cultures. Besides the Greek Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox confessions, Lviv also has a Polish Catholic...
2 March 2022 – A la une
New People in the RISM Online Catalog 2021
Despite the limitations brought about by the pandemic, the growth of our online catalog was considerable in 2021. The number of new people named in RISM records grew by over 4,800 throughout the course of the year, in part through new records for musical sources and in part also through...
24 February 2022 – Nouveau au RISM
International Mother Language Day
For 22 years, 21 February has been celebrated as International Mother Language Day. On this day, the United Nations highlights the significance of native languages as a cultural asset because many languages are endangered. And since many languages do not have an online presence, multilinguialsim online can be strengthened. The...
21 February 2022 – Nouveau au RISM
200 Years of Print History: RISM B/I Now Entirely in the RISM Catalog
It all began with the famous first Petrucci edition from 1501 (see image). After around four years of editing, all of the entries from B/I, Recueils imprimés, XVIe-XVIIe siècles (over 2,700) have been revised and can be found in the RISM catalog. As with all records in the RISM catalog,...
17 February 2022 – Nouveau au RISM
Musical Dedications, in Love and Friendship
Dédié à Madame Son Epouse —Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz Al mio amico F. Brizzi —Fabio Campana Composed, and most humbly Dedicated (by Permission) His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge —Catherine Hyde Solari Meinem lieben “Basler Liederkranz” gewidmet —Edwin Schlumpf Valentine’s Day is a time to think about those who you hold...
14 February 2022 – Evénements
Insights into the Music Collection of Duchess Luise Friederike of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
We have received the following from Miriam Roner (RISM Germany, Dresden office): February 3, 2022 marked the 300th birthday of Luise Friederike, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. For RISM Germany, this major birthday is a welcome opportunity to put a special emphasis on cataloging her music collection. If she were alive, she...
10 February 2022 – Anniversaires
New Features in the RISM Catalog
RISM and the Bavarian State Library (BSB, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) announce a major upgrade of the RISM Catalog of Musical Sources at https://opac.rism.info/. One of the first things that users might notice is the display of IIIF objects. The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is a technical standard that allows images...
8 February 2022 – Catalogue RISM en ligne
First Recording of a Rebay Sonata for Guitar by Luiz Mantovani at Stift Heiligenkreuz
We have received the following from P. MMag. Roman Nägele OCist, director of the music archive at Stift Heiligenkreuz: Over 600 works from the archive of the Austrian composer, pianist, and conductor Ferdinand Rebay (1880-1953) can be found at the music archive of Heiligenkreuz Abbey. They are also listed in...
3 February 2022 – Collections de bibliothèques
