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Collecting – Performing – Exploring. Dresden’s Eighteenth-Century Court Music
The following announcement has reached us from the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB): January 21 to 23, 2016 International conference of the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) In the context of the DFG-funded project “The Music of the Dresden Court Church and the Royal Private Music...
28 October 2015 – Evénements
Schubert Autograph Music Manuscripts in Schubert Online
All of the autograph music manuscripts by Franz Schubert (1797-1828) that are housed at the Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, SBB) - numbering around 60 total - have been digitized and cataloged in the RISM database as part of the project Schubert Online. The digitized music is available through...
26 October 2015 – Collections de bibliothèques
From the Library's Treasure Chest: A RISM Concert in Cologne
The library at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne (RISM siglum: D-KNh) houses a comprehensive collection of music manuscripts, with an emphasis on vocal music from the first half of the nineteenth century. These items are from older holdings that were taken over from the institution’s predecessor, the...
23 October 2015 – Evénements
New CD of Music for Johann Konrad Wörle's Organs
This announcement has come to us from Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider of RISM Landesleitung Tirol-Südtirol & OFM Austria: Premieres of new sounds: Presenting music from the Biblioteca dell’Accademia nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana in Rome (I-Rli), the Biblioteca nazionale centrale in Rome (I-Rn), and the Santini-Bibliothek in Münster (D-MÜs) on an organ...
22 October 2015 – Nouveautés
Neue CD: Die Orgel von Johann Konrad Wörle
Diese Ankündigung sandte uns Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider von RISM Landesleitung Tirol-Südtirol & OFM Austria: Neue Klangpremieren: Präsentiert wird Musik aus der Biblioteca dell’Accademia nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana in Rom (I-Rli), der Biblioteca nazionale centrale in Rom (I-Rn) und der Santini-Bibliothek in Münster (D-MÜs) auf einer Orgel des Tiroler Orgelmachers Johann...
22 October 2015 – Nouveau au RISM
The Royal Library of Belgium acquires the only known manuscript of "Le Retour des plaisirs" (1719) by André Vaillant
We have received this announcement from our colleagues at RISM Belgium: After his campaign in the Austro-Turkish war (1716-1718) in Hungary, Duke Léopold-Philippe of Arenberg (1690-1754) was sent back to the Austrian Netherlands and became governor of Hainaut. On the occasion of his solemn entrance in the city of Mons,...
19 October 2015 – Collections de bibliothèques
Luigi Marchesi - A famous singer from the 18th century
Luigi Marchesi (1754-1829) – one of the most famous singers at the end of the eighteenth century – will be the focus of attention in the next few days with large celebrations in Italy. An exhibit dedicated to the Italian castrato, whose career began in 1765 as a choirboy at...
15 October 2015 – A la une
RISM Conference in Taiwan
The 2015 Taipei Conference for a Collaborative Project on Chinese Music Resources, organized by Chun-Zen Huang, will be held from October 15 to 16 at National Taiwan Normal University in order to try to set up a network of music repositories in the Chinese-speaking region (mainland China, Hong Kong, and...
12 October 2015 – Evénements
New Discoveries of Vivaldi in Dresden
The following is a guest post by Francisco Javier Lupiáñez Ruiz: Two years ago I started to prepare a concert program based on anonymous pieces from the Schrank II collection from Die Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB). The Schrank II contains a large collection of musical works...
8 October 2015 – Redécourvertes
Music, musicology, libraries: An intern's report
We just said farewell to our intern Anne-Marie Wurster, who spent five weeks with us here at the the RISM Central Office in Frankfurt. She has submitted this reflection of her time here: At the intersection of musicology and librarianship - that’s right where I wanted to be. And that...
7 October 2015 – Nouveau au RISM
