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Magdeburg in Georg Philipp Telemann's Footsteps
These days, illustrious performers are expected once again in Magdeburg. The 23rd Magdeburg Telemann Festival focuses this year on Telemann and the concert, spotlighting works that Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) himself once presented as a concert promoter. Beginning last Friday and continuing until March 20, there are numerous events taking...
14 March 2016
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
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
Happy Holidays 2015!
The RISM Central Office wishes you and your family all the best for a festive holiday season and a Happy New Year. We look forward to working with you again in 2016. Image: New York Public Library Digital Collections, postcard from early 1900s.
21 December 2015
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
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
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
Premieres of rediscovered Heinrich Schütz works
This post has reached us from Helmut Lauterwasser (RISM Germany): It is hard to believe that there are still new works by Heinrich Schütz that are awaiting discovery. And indeed, on 1 October 2015 two small Christmas pieces by the Saxon court Kapellmeister will be heard for the first time...
28 September 2015
RISM at the AIBM Conference in Stuttgart
The AIBM annual conference (German branch of IAML) is right around the corner: from September 22 to 25, around 160 participants will come together from Germany and neighboring German-speaking countries to discuss the current situation of music libraries and their future. Sessions of interest to public as well as academic...
21 September 2015
RISM and the "R"s in Mexico
The Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical (CENIDIM) and the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Mexico have organized an international meeting for music and performing arts, the Encuentro Internacional de Investigación y Documentación de la Música y las Artes Escénicas, from 17 to 19 September 2015. Participants will...
14 September 2015
