Archive des actualités
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
The Reopening of the Vienna State Opera in 1955
The following post is by one of our current interns, Julius Rüttger: There is a musical anniversary that we can celebrate today: Exactly 65 years ago, the famous State Opera in Vienna reopened after World War II. The opera house, which originally opened on 25 May 1869 with Mozart’s Don...
5 November 2020 – Anniversaires
Music Manuscripts from the Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg to the Mid-17th Century: Cataloging, Digitizing, and Watermark Thermography
We have received the following from Bernhard Lutz (Bavarian State Library): Starting November 2020, the Bavarian State Library will catalog and digitize ca. 80 music manuscripts from the dawn of music notation to the mid-17th century owned by the State and City Library of Augsburg (Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg; RISM...
2 November 2020 – Collections de bibliothèques
Georg Philipp Telemann as the Publisher of his own Compositions
During his time as Director musices in Frankfurt am Main (1712-1721), Georg Philipp Telemann was not just busy with the Sunday church services and involved in the administration of the Frauenstein Society (secretary and treasurer). Regular concert life in Frankfurt began in 1713 with the revival of the Collegium musicum...
29 October 2020 – RISM A-Z
Diversity in RISM
There are over 138,000 people in the RISM online catalog: not all composers or musicians who ever lived, but only those who are connected with a musical source. Biographical information is recorded about each person in a separate record so that we can clearly identify the person and separate them...
26 October 2020 – Collections de bibliothèques
Introductory Muscat Workshops in November (FULL)
The workshops are now full. If you are interested in attending a future Muscat workshop, please write to contact@rism.info and we will let you know when future dates have been set. The RISM Central Office will be hosting an online, introductory two-part workshop on cataloging musical sources using the program...
22 October 2020 – Evénements
Announcing the new RISM UK Catalogue
The following originally appeared on the Music Blog of the British Library on 16 October 2020 (Creative Commons): RISM UK is pleased to announce the launch of the new RISM UK Catalogue. The catalogue is a subset of the international RISM Online Catalogue of Musical Sources. It contains all data...
19 October 2020 – Collections de bibliothèques
Printed Music and Early Printed Books
We are excited to be included in the list of catalogs on the website Early Printed Books by Sarah Werner, a resource for exploring the history of the medium between 1450 to 1800. The website complements the book Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide (Wiley, 2019) and offers...
15 October 2020 – Nouveau au RISM
The Other Giacomo Puccini
No, today we don’t mean the opera composer Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), who has ca. 100 entries in the RISM database, but rather the composer of sacred music. Giacomo Puccini was the great-great grandfather of the famous opera composer and lived from 1712 to 1781. He studied in Bologna and was...
12 October 2020 – Nouveau au RISM
