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Arias from St. Petersburg

The new CD St. Petersburg by Cecilia Bartoli will certainly be a present under many Christmas trees this year. The Italian singer consulted the archives of the Mariinsky Theater Library in St. Petersburg (RUS-SPtob) for this album. These holdings are not yet cataloged in RISM but many of the arias...

8 December 2014 – A la une

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A Summer of Musical Sources

Martin Bierwisch, a musicology student at the Universität Mainz, spent the summer with us as an intern. Read on about his experiences. If you are interested in an internship with RISM, please get in touch: contact@rism.info The idea of doing an internship at the RISM Zentralredaktion was the result of...

4 December 2014 – Nouveau au RISM

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RISM and the Philippines

In October, the RISM director, Klaus Keil, was invited to speak at a conference and workshop called Preserving and Cataloguing Music Cultural Heritage in Asia/Laon-Laon Forum at the University of the Philippines College of Music/UP Center for Ethnomusicology. He had the opportunity to present RISM to an international audience. RISM...

1 December 2014 – Evénements

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Music for Advent

On Sunday, the Christmas season will be in full swing: It’s the first Sunday of Advent. This time is peak season for church musicians. At no other time of the year are churches host to so many musical events and concerts. But how can you put together an interesting program?...

27 November 2014 – Evénements

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Hasse's Siroe in Versailles

On November 26, the opera Siroe, re di Persia by Johann Adolf Hasse will premiere at the Opera Royal de Versailles. This is a nice opportunity to take a look at the more than 150 sources for this opera that are in the RISM database. Two sources from Dresden are...

24 November 2014 – A la une

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The Lost Voices Project is now live

The Lost Voices Project is now online: http://digitalduchemin.org/ “Focusing on a neglected but important repertory of polyphonic songs from mid-sixteenth-century France, this unique project puts old books before a diverse audience of modern scholars and musicians in ways that will prompt renewed understanding of these cultural artifacts and their meanings....

20 November 2014 – Ressources en ligne

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Niccolò Jommelli rediscovered: International award for essay on autograph extant at the National Library of Portugal

The following article originally appeared on the website of the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (CC BY 4.0) Niccolò Jommelli rediscovered: a new autograph of a 16 voice Laudate pueri, by António Jorge Marques, has received a special mention in the 6th Principe Francesco Maria Ruspoli Musicological Studies International Prize. The...

17 November 2014 – Redécourvertes

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Christoph Wolff named Honorary President of RISM

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christoph Wolff has been named Honorary President by the current RISM Board of Directors. While he was president of RISM from 2004-2013, he made outstanding contributions to the Association. First and foremost was the successful renewal of funding for the RISM Zentralredaktion by the Union der...

14 November 2014 – Nouveau au RISM

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Music Archival Collections at the Bavarian State Library

The following article is by Uta Schaumberg, our colleague from RISM Germany at the Music Department of the Bavarian State Library. Extending to all aspects of music and musical culture, the Bavarian State Library holds over 350 archives and collections of various sizes pertaining to individuals. The collection is cataloged...

11 November 2014 – Collections de bibliothèques

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RISM Survey

The RISM Central Office is carrying out a survey about our online catalog, which is available free of charge at www.rism.info and opac.rism.info. We would like to find out who our users are, what their expectations are, and how they use the catalog. The survey is anonymous and responses will...

30 October 2014 – Nouveau au RISM

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