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Welcome to the new RISM Website!
We invite you to take a look at the website of the RISM Editorial Center, which has been redesigned in cooperation with the RISM Digital Center. Visitors to the RISM website can still directly search the RISM Online Catalog of Musical Sources containing over 1.2 million records for historical music...
16 December 2020 – Nouveau au RISM
Announcing the RISM Digital Center
We are pleased to announce that RISM Switzerland has been restructured to form the RISM Digital Center. This evolution is the result of more than a decade of active contribution to the field of digital methods, including the development of tools highly relevant for the entire RISM community and beyond....
15 December 2020 – Nouveau au RISM
Joseph Bologne's "L’Amant Anonyme"
Joseph Bologne de Saint-Georges was born 275 years ago, on December 25, 1745 – or perhaps in 1739, as documentary sources are conflicting. Regardless, we are celebrating his music with this guest post by the editors of a new critical edition of Joseph Bologne’s “L’Amant Anonyme”, the composer’s only surviving...
7 December 2020 – Nouveautés
My Internship at RISM
In October 2020 the RISM Central Office offered a group internship for the first time. Over the course of the year, we received several applications from students who were interested in an internship. We adapted to the Corona situation and offered four people internships at once. Miquela Döppenschmitt is the...
3 December 2020 – Nouveau au RISM
Friedrich Gottlieb Klingenberg: The Wedding Composer
You can only find biographical information about Friedrich Gottlieb Klingenberg somewhat indirectly. There are no entries for him in the standard references works Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart or New Grove (both print and the online versions). He is only mentioned in connection with the city Stettin (today Szczecin) and...
26 November 2020 – Nouveau au RISM
Music for a while… for more than 325 years!
The following is a joint post between the RISM Zentralredaktion and the British Library: When Henry Purcell died (on 21 November 1695 - 325 years ago this past Saturday) he was probably one of the best-known composers in England – honoured with a burial at Westminster Abbey no less. But...
23 November 2020 – Anniversaires
Updated Tutorials for the RISM Online Catalog
New, updated tutorials are now available for the RISM Online Catalog. All tutorials are available through the catalog’s Help page as well as through RISM’s YouTube channel and the playlist Guides to the RISM Online Catalog. All videos are in English and include English captions. Three introductory videos give an...
19 November 2020 – Catalogue RISM en ligne
Hindemith 2020
The following is a guest post from Susanne Schaal-Gotthardt (Director, Hindemith Institute, Frankfurt am Main): Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) was a careful archivist during his lifetime: starting in his student days he kept catalogs of works in which he recorded information about the work, its creation, and its publication. Later, he...
16 November 2020 – Anniversaires
Happy 253rd Birthday, Bernhard Romberg (1767-1841)
The following is a guest post by one of our current interns, Daniel Kneer: Bernhard Heinrich Romberg was a German cellist and composer. He was born into a musical family on 12 November 1767 in the northern German town of Dinklage. Romberg received his first cello lessons from his father...
12 November 2020 – Anniversaires
Electronic Thematic Catalogs
There was a fruitful discussion on Facebook recently among music librarians to identify electronic thematic catalogs, which are especially useful in these times of remote instruction and distance learning. In case other people are interested in thematic catalogs, catalogs of works, or simple works lists that are available online, we...
9 November 2020 – Nouveau au RISM
