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RISM Data Now in EROMM
Digitized musical sources (manuscripts, printed music, writings on music theory, libretti) from RISM are now available through EROMM Search. EROMM is the European Register of Microform and Digital Masters, which has the goal of coordinating digitization and microfilming activities and helping users find out where such surrogates are available. There...
10 September 2020 – Nouveau au RISM
Isabella Leonarda at 400 (1620-1704)
Isabella Leonarda was baptized 400 years ago yesterday, on 6 September 1620. The very thin documentary evidence tells us that the composer joined the order Collegio di Sant’Orsola in Novara at the age of 16 and lived there until her death. The young Ursuline sisters also received music instruction. Gasparo...
7 September 2020 – Anniversaires
Nicola Porpora's "Carlo il Calvo" in Bayreuth
The Bayreuth Festival was cancelled this year due to coronavirus, but a different Bayreuth festival, the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, is opening tonight with Nicola Porpora’s Carlo il Calvo. Nicola Porpora (1686-1768) was one of the most important voice teachers of his day, and his students included Farinelli. In addition...
3 September 2020 – Evénements
New Book about Music in Stams Abbey, Austria
We have received the following from Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider (RISM Tirol-Südtirol & OFM Austria): New publication: Wo die Engel musizieren. Musik im Stift Stams The RISM catalog currently (August 2020) contains over 8,300 records from the Music Archive of the Cistercian Abbey in Stams, Tyrol (RISM siglum: A-ST). Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider, responsible...
31 August 2020 – Nouveautés
A Farewell from Long-Time RISM Director Klaus Keil
Dear working group contributors, supporters, and friends of RISM, I have been the director of the RISM Central Office for nearly 30 years and have worked here for more than 37. The time has come for me to go. On 31 August 2020, I will leave my position and go...
27 August 2020 – Nouveau au RISM
Taking on “Anonymous”
Thanks to numerous tips from several colleagues, we are now able to provide more specific information about collections of arias that are housed at the Biblioteca Estense in Modena (I-MOe). Many of the composers of unattributed arias have been identified, as well as the operas that the arias are from....
24 August 2020 – Collections de bibliothèques
The anonymous cantata "Chiuso è già Borea nevoso"
Over 230,000 sources in the RISM online catalog are anonymous and often languish unnoticed. One cantata, however, shows that it is sometimes worth it to leave trusted paths of inquiry: this beautiful manuscript from 1716. As a matter of fact, we know quite a bit about the work: Antonio Ottoboni...
20 August 2020 – Collections de bibliothèques
A Royal Library: King Ludwig II's Music Collection
One of the people with a major birthday in 2020 is King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who was born 175 years ago on August 25, 1845. (Here’s a song to celebrate him.) King Ludwig is a figure who probably needs no introduction: his fairy-tale castles belong to the itineraries of...
17 August 2020 – Anniversaires
Online Muscat Workshop with the Chopin Institute (Warsaw) In the Age of the Corona Pandemic
Online Muscat Workshop 3-7 August 2020 in English with the Chopin Institute (Warsaw) in the Age of the Corona Pandemic Workshop leaders: Guido Kraus (RISM Central Office, Frankfurt am Main) and Marcelina Chojecka (Chopin Institute NIFC, Warsaw) The RISM Central Office in Frankfurt am Main continues to work closely together...
13 August 2020 – Evénements
Lost and Found: Gottfried Kirchhoff's "L'A.B.C. musical"
Our RISM ears pricked up at last year’s IAML Congress in Kraków when Kirill Diskin and Maksim Serebrennikov (Saint Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory), delivering their paper “Foreign book rarities in the library of the S. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory,” said that their library holds a printed music edition that is...
10 August 2020 – Redécourvertes
