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Johann Michael Closner (1786–1860) and the historical music manuscripts and prints in the Trostberg City Museum
We have received the following from our colleague Helmut Lauterwasser (RISM Germany): One of the most important tasks for RISM is to catalog historical sources of music also in small libraries, archives, and museums. In extreme cases one encounters collections that contain very few historical music sources, sometimes only a...
21 April 2021 – Collections de bibliothèques
A Musical Dialogue from 1544
The Dialogo della musica by Antonfrancesco Doni (1513-1574) is not meant to teach but rather to entertain. The conversations are divided into two evenings with music. On the first evening, the characters Bargo, Michele, Grullone, and Hoste converse. No fewer than 13 four-part madrigals are sung by the other participants....
14 April 2021 – Nouveau au RISM
The 300th Anniversary of Joachim Gerstenbüttel’s Death
Gerstenbüttel is a locality in the district of Gifhorn (Lower Saxony, Germany) - but not only. The name Gerstenbüttel also stands for the composer and cantor Joachim Gerstenbüttel, who died on April 10, 1721 in Hamburg. Born in Wismar in 1647, he first studied theology in Rostock and Wittenberg, to...
8 April 2021 – Anniversaires
Maundy Thursday
Today, Maundy Thursday, marks the beginning of the Triduum Sacrum, the three holy days of the Lord’s passion, death and resurrection, and thus the climax of Holy Week. Traditionally, in the Roman Catholic liturgy, the organ plays for the last time in the Gloria of the Mass of the Lord’s...
1 April 2021 – Evénements
The 2020 Annual Report
The 2020 annual report for the RISM Central Office has now been published. You can read the report in its entirety on the RISM website. Here are some of the highlights: The year 2020 brought an important change for RISM: Klaus Keil, who had served as director of the Zentralredaktion...
30 March 2021 – Nouveautés
Les 150 ans de la mort de François-Joseph Fétis
Nous avons reçu les informations suivantes de Hugo Rodriguez (KBR - Bibliothèque royale de Belgique - Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België). Les 150 ans de la mort de François-Joseph Fétis En cette année 2021, la Belgique et le monde musical commémorent les 150 ans de la mort de François-Joseph Fétis (25...
26 March 2021 – Anniversaires
Sensational Discovery: Proofs for Orlando di Lasso's 'Magnum Opus Musicum' (1604) in the Archives of the Bavarian State
We have received the following from Gottfried Heinz-Kronberger (RISM Germany): An exciting discovery was made in the course of a scoping study of fragments in the Archives of the Bavarian State. This is not the first gem to be uncovered from the Fragment Collection. In 2018, parts of a sonata...
15 March 2021 – Redécourvertes
The Library of the Landgravine Caroline Henriette von Hessen-Darmstadt (1721–1774)
We have received the following guest post from Beate Sorg: Goethe, who never knew her personally, called her “The Great Landgräfin.” Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, to whose entourage she belonged for a number of years, donated a marble urn for her grave in the Herrengarten in Darmstadt with...
11 March 2021 – Anniversaires
International Women's Day 2021: Women Composers in RISM
In 2017, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, we published a spreadsheet of all women composers found in RISM. Over the past four years, this number has grown from ca. 800 to over 1,000. That was more than enough reason for us to publish this new spreadsheet. In addition,...
8 March 2021 – Evénements
RISM Lecture on the Cappella Sistina Collection Now Online
We are happy to report that the inaugural RISM Lecture held on January 28, 2021 proved a runaway success. Over 270 people attended the event online, not merely from almost all European countries, but also from Brazil, Mexico, the United States and even Nigeria. We are particularly proud of our...
4 March 2021 – Evénements
