Archive des actualités – Collections de bibliothèques
Cataloguing 17th- and 18th-century Manuscripts of French Music in the Ward Collection (US-CAward)
Natasha Roule, a candidate for the PhD in historical musicology at Harvard University, has spent the summer as a Pforzheimer Fellow at Houghton Library, Harvard’s principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, including rich holdings in print and manuscript music. Here is her account of her project, which saw the...
3 August 2015
Two significant Hanover collections now in RISM
This post comes to us from Helmut Lauterwasser of RISM Germany: Cataloging historical manuscripts in RISM has recently been completed for two important music institutions in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony. Though these collections are relatively small, they contain sources that are of great historical interest and significance. Both...
30 July 2015
After more than 200 years, one of Mozart’s autograph manuscripts returns to Salzburg
This announcement has reached us from Armin Brinzing, director of the Bibliotheca Mozartiana at the Mozarteum in Salzburg: Thanks to the generous support of a private donor, the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation has been able to acquire an extensive autograph manuscript by Mozart. The manuscript is a copy of a work...
27 July 2015
Arias Identified in Dresden Royal Private Music Collection
Our colleague Roberto Scoccimarro from the SLUB in Dresden (D-Dl) brings us the latest from the Dresden Court Music project. Arias in the Royal Private Music Collection are full of exciting surprises, allowing us to identify composers and put stray arias back with their operas. One example is a manuscript...
26 May 2015
Digitizing Materials from Dresden's Royal Music Collections
This entry is by Nina Eichholz (SLUB Dresden) and originally appeared on the Hofmusik in Dresden (Dresden Court Music) project website. It is reprinted here with kind permission. In February 2015, the first manuscripts were digitized from the DFG-funded project Dresden Court Church and Royal Private Music Collection (Hofkirche und...
11 May 2015
Happy Birthday - Brahms und Tschaikowski!
Dieser Beitrag ist ein Auszug einesArtikels von David Plylar, der im Original “In the Muse”-Blog der Library of Congress erschien. Am 7. Mai haben Brahms und Tschaikowski Geburtstag — ein jährliches Ereignis seit Tschaikowski 1840, sieben Jahre nach Brahms, das Licht der Welt erblickte. Dieses zufällig gemeinsame Datum gibt Anlass...
7 May 2015
New Research on Mexican Sources
During the month of April, Dr. John Lazos is spending his time between research at various Mexican archives and giving a seminar at the Faculty of Music of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Dr. Lazos has been awarded a bursary from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las...
23 April 2015
Composers identified in Dresden's royal music collections
This article is by Nina Eichholz (SLUB Dresden) and originally appeared on the Hofmusik in Dresden(Dresden Court Music) project website. It is reprinted here with kind permission. In the DFG project Hofkirche und Königliche Privat-Musikaliensammlung (Dresden Court Church and Royal Private Music Sheet Collection), which has been underway for the...
2 April 2015
Cataloging and Digitizing the Dom-Musikverein and Mozarteum Collection in Salzburg (to 1881)
The following announcement has reached us from our RISM colleagues in Austria: The International Mozarteum Foundation has started a new project in cooperation with the Archdioceses Archive in Salzburg. The goal is to catalog the valuable historical collection of the Dom-Musikverein und Mozarteum (Society for Music at the Cathedral and...
9 March 2015
Funding Renewed for KoFIM Berlin Project
The following announcement has come to us from Martina Rebmann (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin): With generous support from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the KoFIM Berlin project (Kompetenzzentrum Forschung und Information Musik/Center of Excellence for Research and Information in Music) will continue at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin for another three years....
19 February 2015
