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18th-Century Music Manuscript "Libro Sesto" Tells of Colonial History in Chile

The Biblioteca Nacional de Chile in Santiago (RCH-Sbnc) is home to a rare music manuscript from ca. 1790, which it has had in its possession since January 2014. It was a gift from the descendants of the Chilean musicologist Guillermo Marchant Espinoza (1950-2009), who rescued it from the rubble during...

25 February 2016 – A la une

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Announcing the Bohemian Watermark Database

The following has reached us from Eliška Šedivá (National Library, Prague): The Music Department of the National Library of the Czech Republic presents the Bohemian Watermark Database, which continuously grows during the course of cataloguing and reviewing the musical sources registered in the Union Music Catalogue of the NLCR by...

22 February 2016 – Ressources en ligne

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Conference: The Music Repertoire of the Society of Jesus in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1565–1773)

From February 5 to 6, 2016, Guido Kraus from the RISM Central Office attended an international musicological conference at the University of Warsaw Library entitled “The Music Repertoire of the Society of Jesusin the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1565–1773).Sources – Editing – Cataloguing.” The conference was hosted by the Institute of Musicology...

19 February 2016 – Evénements

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RISM Workshop and Seminar in Warsaw (February 3-4, 2016)

The following has reached us from Sonia Wronkowska of RISM Poland: The workshop “Introduction to Kallisto” and a RISM seminar took place at the beginning of February in Warsaw, and was organised by the Polish RISM Centre (Music Department) and the Librarian Education Department of the National Library of Poland....

17 February 2016 – Evénements

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The 2016 RISM Bird Count

The winter months keep most of us indoors, but this time of the year is greeted by birdwatchers on both sides of the Atlantic as they grab their binoculars and head outside for annual bird counts. There is the Christmas Bird Count in North America, the Big Garden Birdwatch in...

15 February 2016 – A la une

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The Dukes of Arenberg and Music in the Eighteenth Century: The Story of a Music Collection

Our colleague Marie Cornaz from RISM Belgium has recently published a revised and expanded edition of her Les ducs d’Arenberg et la musique au XVIIIesiècle. Histoire d’une collection musicale and it is available for the first time in English: Marie Cornaz, The Dukes of Arenberg and Music in the Eighteenth...

11 February 2016 – Nouveautés

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RISM Modern Monday: Marianne Teuscher (1903–2009), the "Queen Mum" of the Music Department

No, you’re not mistaken: the dates of birth and death for Marianne Teuscher are correct. She lived to the ripe old age of 106 and is quite likely the longest-lived person in the RISM database—and as the fifth and last person in our RISM Modern Monday series, she brings us...

8 February 2016 – Collections de bibliothèques

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RISM Modern Monday: Composer Archives in RISM

In our series RISM Modern Monday, we mustn’t omit composer archives - collections of personal papers and/or manuscripts that are left to a library - particularly because they contain a large share of the twentieth-century musical sources that are documented in RISM. Processing these archival collections is done by the...

1 February 2016 – Collections de bibliothèques

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Exhibit at the Frankfurt University Library: 350th Anniversary of Johann Andreas Herbst's Death

Johann Andreas Herbst (1588–1666) and His Music Library: A Testimonial to Music Playing and the Art of Printing Music Motivated by the ceremonial coronations for Holy Roman Emperor that took place in Frankfurt am Main in 1612 for Matthias and in 1619 for Ferdinand II, the city appointed its first...

28 January 2016 – Anniversaires

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Ausstellung in der Frankfurter Universitätsbibliothek zu Johann Andreas Herbst aus Anlass des 350. Todestags

Johann Andreas Herbst (1588–1666) und seine Notenbibliothek – Ein Zeugnis für Musikpraxis und Notendruckkunst Angeregt durch die feierlichen Krönungen von 1612 (Kaiser Matthias) und 1619 (Kaiser Ferdinand II) wurde 1623 der erste städtische Musikdirektor in Frankfurt am Main angestellt. Die Wahl fiel auf den aus Nürnberg stammenden und zuvor an...

28 January 2016 – Collections de bibliothèques

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