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Happy Holidays 2022!
The RISM Editorial Center wishes you all the best for a festive holiday season, fittingly with a historical document: an early (1863) edition of “Silent Night,” John Freeman Young’s English translation of Joseph Mohr’s “Stille Nacht” as set to music by Franz Xaver Gruber. We wish you many a silent...
21 December 2022
International Conference Celebrating 70 Years of RISM
The following is by Pia Shekhter (President of IAML, the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres) and originally appeared on the IAML website. It is reprinted here with kind permission. An international conference was held 7-9 October 2022 acknowledging the 70th anniversary of RISM (Répertoire International des...
21 November 2022
RISM at the Academies' Day in Leipzig
This year’s Academies’ Day of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities took place in Leipzig on 6 October 2022. The theme of the day was Music and Society. Different research projects from the eight member academies were presented alongside a packed accompanying program. The close proximity...
14 November 2022
Announcing the Third RISM Lecture: Musical Sources in Mexico
Our first pair of RISM Lectures focused on two of the most celebrated music collections of the old continent: the Fondo Cappella Sistina kept in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and the Bach manuscripts preserved in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. In keeping with RISM’s global outlook and mission, we wanted the...
29 September 2022
Program and Registration for Musical Sources: Past and Future — An International Conference Celebrating 70 Years of RISM
We are pleased to announce the final program for our event Musical Sources: Past and Future - An International Conference Celebrating 70 Years of RISM. It will take place 7-9 October 2022 in the Plenarsaal (Plenary Hall) of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Please visit our conference...
22 September 2022
RISM at the 2022 IMS Congress in Athens
While one of RISM’s sponsoring organizations, the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) holds a congress each year, offering us the chance to share the latest news about our work in person, the International Musicological Society (IMS) puts up full congresses only quinquennially. This year the...
15 September 2022
Second IAML Congress Diary from Prague
We continue our reflections on the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres congress in Prague. Part one can be found here. Von Guido Kraus: Nach einer dreijährigen Pandemie bedingten Pause war es wieder soweit. Das internationale Musikbibliothekswesen gab sich ein Stelldichein in der historischen Metropole Prag ganz...
23 August 2022
First IAML Congress Diary from Prague
The RISM Editorial Center was well represented at this year’s annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres in Prague. In traditional IAML Congress Diary style, we offer you the first of our impressions from Prague, with the usual linguistic mix. Part two will follow...
18 August 2022
RISM Online launched at the IAML congress in Prague
We are pleased to announce the public launch of RISM Online, a new service designed by our colleagues at the RISM Digital Center. This search tool is intended to complement the RISM Catalog that our users have known for many years, and provide them with alternative ways and means of...
28 July 2022
RISM at the 2022 IAML Congress in Prague
This year’s annual IAML Congress will take place in Prague from 24–29 July, an event we look forward to every year—and this year even more so, after two years of postponements due to the coronavirus pandemic. RISM has a full week of events planned, capping off with a special RISM...
14 July 2022
