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Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
Ten years ago, in September 2004, a devastating fire broke out at the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar (D-WRz). In total, 196,000 books and manuscripts, including music materials, were in the building that burned. 28,000 were spared but 50,000 were completely destroyed. A further 118,000 items sustained damage during...
25 September 2014 – Anniversaires
IAML Poland Celebrates 50 Years
This week, our Polish colleagues are celebrating the 50th anniversary of IAML Poland with a conference in Warsaw on 23-24 September 2014. The topic of the conference is Music Information in the Future (Muzyczna Informacja Jutra). IAML president Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie has been invited to deliver a presentation about the...
22 September 2014 – Evénements
Mozart: New Documents
From the AMS we have received the following announcement: We are pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource, Mozart: New Documents. The site will present recently uncovered references to Mozart and his music from the composer’s lifetime that have yet to appear in the scholarly literature. Many...
18 September 2014 – Ressources en ligne
Matthew Dubourg
Today, our series RISM from A to Z brings us to Matthew Dubourg. Though there are only 7 works by him in the RISM database, one of those is a digitized copy of his Violin Concerto in D major, for which no published edition had previously existed. For RISM’s concert...
15 September 2014 – RISM A-Z
250th anniversary of Jean-Philippe Rameau's death
Jean-Philippe Rameau died 250 years ago today. The RISM online catalog has 230 works by him in over 40 libraries. The sources are widely disseminated throughout Europe and the United States and are mostly of Rameau’s stage works. There is also one autograph manuscript among them: sketches to a keyboard...
12 September 2014 – Anniversaires
Jommelli at 300
Along with C. P. E. Bach and Christoph Willibald Gluck, there is another composer who was born exactly 300 years ago: Niccolò Jommelli (1714 – 1774). Jommelli was famous in his lifetime for his numerous operas and also wrote a number of oratorios, masses, and other sacred vocal music. While...
10 September 2014 – Anniversaires
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Mariae (B.V.) Nativitas
The birth of the Virgin Mary is commemorated on September 8 in the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Church. The feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (In Nativitate B.M.V.) is also called the Nativity of Our Lady. It probably evolved from the festival of...
8 September 2014 – Evénements
New (for us) publications from Belgium and the Netherlands
We have recently acquired four publications about Belgian and Dutch musical sources that we would like to share with you: • Gilbert Huybens and Leo van Buyten: “Willem Gommaar Kennis: (Lier 1717-Leuven 1789), leven en werk; zijn muzikale betekenis in de 18. eeuw.” Arca Lovaniensis. Leuven: Vrienden van de Leuvense...
5 September 2014 – Nouveautés
On the Trail of the Music at the Dresden Court
The following article is by Nina Eichholz and was originally published on the SLUBlog. We are publishing it here with the kind permission of the SLUB Dresden. The second SLUB project began one year ago to catalog its valuable music materials from the time of the Saxon-Polish union (1697-1763). Financed...
1 September 2014 – Nouveau au RISM
Teresa Milanollo @RISM
Today is the birthday of Italian violinist and composer Teresa Milanollo (1827-1904). As a nine-year-old, Teresa fascinated audiences with her violin playing. Together with her sister Maria, who was five years younger, they were a successful violin prodigy duo. Tragically, their celebrated performances came to an end in 1848 when...
28 August 2014 – Anniversaires
