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Internships at the RISM Central Office
We would like to announce that we are accepting applications for interns at the RISM Central Office in Frankfurt, Germany. RISM offers internships in its editorial department to people interested in experiencing the day-to-day work of a major digital bibliographic and musicological project. Internships are ideal for people interested in...
12 November 2018 – Nouveau au RISM
Couperin 350
People have been celebrating the 350th birthday of François Couperin since January and the pinnacle of the celebrations will be reached this Saturday. We have chosen a few of the many events that will be taking place. The conference “François Couperin: A 350th Anniversary Symposium” at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire...
8 November 2018 – Anniversaires
"Le lettere di Casa Ricordi online" Launches Today
The Archivio Storico Ricordi preserves the historical materials of one of the most significant music publishers of all time. For over 200 years, the Ricordi publishers have influenced Italian musical life not only through their publishing activities but also as impresarios, cultural supporters, and managers. The Archivio Storico Ricordi is...
5 November 2018 – Ressources en ligne
New RISM Project in Colombia
We have received the following announcement from Dr. Rondy F. Torres López (RISM Colombia). English follows: Rondy Torres, doctor en musicología, profesor de la Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), ha iniciado un nuevo proyecto de catalogación de un fondo hasta ahora desconocido: la música del siglo XIX del archivo...
1 November 2018 – Collections de bibliothèques
Canzonette veneziane
This post originally appeared on the MusiCB3 Blog of Cambridge University (CC-BY): Last October the second hand and antiquarian music dealer Travis & Emery circulated their occasional antiquarian music catalogue Sarum no. 58. One item caught my eye because in the last year or so I had updated the online...
25 October 2018 – Collections de bibliothèques
Searching for People in the New RISM Catalog
The new version of the RISM catalog that was released over the summer has opened up the possibility to do a detailed search for the people that appear in RISM records: composers, publishers, singers, instrumentalists, dedicatees, etc. Though we are working on making this tool more intuitive to use, we...
22 October 2018 – Catalogue RISM en ligne
Insights into the collections of the Heiligenkreuz Monastery (Austria)
We have received the following announcement from P. Roman Nägele OCist (Stift Heiligenkreuz, Austria). Only German: Einblicke in Sammlungen des Stiftes Heiligenkreuz - Musikpflege im Stift Heiligenkreuz Viel wertvolles Notenmaterial befindet sich im Musikarchiv des Stiftes Heiligenkreuz im Wienerwald (Niederösterreich). Der Leiter des Musikarchivs P. Roman Nägele OCist bemüht sich...
18 October 2018 – Evénements
Happy 200th Birthday to Alexander Dreyschock!
The following article was contributed by Kristina Krämer, who is currently writing her master’s thesis on Alexander Dreyschock at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz: Born on 15 October 1818 near Prague, pianist Alexander Dreyschock spent most of his life travelling throughout Europe and competing with the likes of Liszt...
15 October 2018 – Anniversaires
Musikverlagswiki: A Source for Dating Printed Music
Recently we told you about current bibliographic projects about Mozart and Clementi, which we learned about during this year’s IAML Congress in Leipzig. Today we’re sharing information about another resource we heard about in detail, from Sabine Koch (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences): the Musikverlagswiki (Music Publishers Wiki). We all...
11 October 2018 – Ressources en ligne
Many Qs
Normally in our series RISM A–Z we focus on just one person at a time. Since there is little information about the only woman composer in RISM whose last name begins with Q (Lucia Quiciani), we will throw the spotlight on several women: The Italian composer Lucia Quiciani was a...
8 October 2018 – RISM A-Z
