Archive des actualités – Collections de bibliothèques
Franz Liszt's Donaueschingen Ländler
This text was inspired by a more comprehensive blog post by Wolfgang Seibold: “1843: Liszt in Karlsruhe,” published on the BLBlog on 11 March 2026. In October 1843, after extensive concert tours in Switzerland, Italy, and especially France, the celebrated – though at times also demonized and caricatured – piano...
17 June 2026
The music collection of Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Meiningen, at the Meiningen Museums
The Max Reger Archive (RISM siglum: D-MEIr) forms part of the Music History Collection of the Meiningen Museums and includes musical collections of various provenances. One of these formerly belonged to Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Meiningen (1687–1763). During his sojourns in Vienna (ca. 1720–1740), Anton Ulrich had more than 100...
23 April 2026
The National Library of Spain and its Music Department collaborated with RISM to disseminate its musical heritage
Over the past 30 years, the Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) collaborated closely with the RISM project. Through Nieves Iglesias and José Carlos Gosálvez the National Library participated in the team that translated RISM’s cataloging guidelines into Spanish – alongside other notable experts such as José Vicente, González Valle and...
26 March 2026
Music manuscripts from Cologne now linked to digitized copies
One of the major benefits of the RISM database is the option to link the description of manuscripts and printed editions with digitized copies of the original sources, thereby allowing users to access right away the items of interest to them. A while ago the Cologne University and City Library...
19 March 2026
Unknown music from Central and South America in the so-called 'Old Schott Archive' of the Mainz-based publishing house B. Schott's Söhne
As part of the joint project “Cataloging, digitization and online presentation of the historical archive of the music publisher Schott,” in 2025 the Bavarian State Library completed the cataloging of the so-called “Old Schott Archive” in the RISM database. This task was carried out with funding by the German Research...
19 February 2026
New at the Bibliotheca Mozartiana of the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in Salzburg - Mozart Autographs of the Eggers Collection
It is the fate of most private collections that the treasures brought together over a long period of time, are dispersed again. In former days typically in one single auction, nowadays often artificially prolonged over as series of sales so as not to saturate the market. Many of the Mozart...
11 December 2025
Renaissance notation knives
If you reach into more remote corners of the RISM database, you will find music that won’t exactly fit on your music stand. Back in 2013 we shared a musical table with you, an etched slab of stone containing the two-part motet “Solve jubente Deo” for six voices by Giovanni...
13 November 2025
Music prints and manuscripts from the Donaueschingen court library now fully accessible online
The following text by Gerrit Heim first appeared on BLBlog and is reprinted here with kind permission. With the music archive, the government of Baden-Württemberg purchased yet another valuable collection from the Princely Fürstenberg Court Library in Donaueschingen in 1999. The acquisition was primarily funded by the Baden-Württemberg Cultural Heritage...
6 November 2025
The revision of historical music prints at the LBZ / Pfälzische Landesbibliothek in Speyer
The following guest post is by Daniel Fromme (Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz (LBZ)). He presents a project that we highly recommend others emulate: A significant music collection of the Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz (LBZ) – kept at its Speyer branch, the Pfälzische Landesbibliothek (D-SPlb) – includes modern music editions as well as ca. 500...
23 October 2025
Felix gives you wings! A previously unknown source of a known Mendelssohn lied
The following post by Roland Schmidt-Hensel was first published on the blog of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz. The manuscript described here can be found in RISM under RISM ID no. 1001329438 (RISM Catalog | RISM Online). Even though Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) left behind more than 100 lieder...
24 July 2025
