Archive des actualités – Collections de bibliothèques
First Recording of a Rebay Sonata for Guitar by Luiz Mantovani at Stift Heiligenkreuz
We have received the following from P. MMag. Roman Nägele OCist, director of the music archive at Stift Heiligenkreuz: Over 600 works from the archive of the Austrian composer, pianist, and conductor Ferdinand Rebay (1880-1953) can be found at the music archive of Heiligenkreuz Abbey. They are also listed in...
3 February 2022
Caspar Neumann. Souls and Funds. The Book of Births and Funerals for the City of Wrocław
We have received the following from Grzegorz Joachimiak (RISM Poland, Wrocław): Caspar Neumann (1648-1715) is a unique figure in the history of Wrocław in the context of science and art, especially concerning demographic statistics and the fascination with death. Throughout history the idea of vanitas has most often increased its...
15 November 2021
Matteo Capranica: A Composer from Rieti
Angelo Fusacchia has devoted a long time to researching musicians who were from or active in the Italian province of Rieti. He has cataloged the Archivio musicale del Duomo di Rieti (I-RId) for RISM. Matteo Capranica is an almost completely unknown composer today. He must have been somewhat famous at...
11 November 2021
Three Venetian Manuscripts: Originals or Forgeries?
The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice (I-Vnm) preserves three beautifully designed manuscripts containing solo songs and arias: Cod. It. IV, 740 (=10313) (RISM ID no. 850699985), Cod. It. IV, 742 (=10318) (RISM ID no. 850701873), and Cod. It. IV, 743 (=10317) (RISM ID no. 850702408). The works are by 17th-century...
28 October 2021
Digitised music manuscripts update at the British Library
The following is by Chris Scobie (Lead Curator, Music Manuscripts) and was originally published on the Music Blog of the British Library (Creative Commons Attribution Licence): Following our recent blog post about newly digitised material from the Royal Music Library, we thought it might be useful to provide an updated...
18 October 2021
Lute Manuscripts at Cambridge
The following is by James Luff and originally appeared on the MusiCB3 Blog. It is reprinted here with kind permission. I spent quite a bit of my spare time during lockdown learning to play the lute. So naturally, I was excited when I discovered that Cambridge has some extraordinary lute...
11 October 2021
Unheard of: Solo Sonatas by Albert Louis Frédéric Baptiste in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
The following is by Antje Becker and was first published in a longer form in Dossier Forschung der Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz. It is reprinted here with kind permission. Albert Louis Frédéric Baptiste (also spelled Batiste or Battista) was born in July 1700 in Oettingen (Bavaria). His father, Johann, was from...
4 October 2021
José Avellaneda in RISM
We have received the following from Enrique Payo León (Universidad de Salamanca): José Larena-Avellaneda y Rodríguez (José Avellaneda) was a violinist who lived between 1863 and 1920 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). The development of his artistic career took him to London several times, but the activities of...
30 September 2021
Digitised Manuscripts from the Royal Music Library
The following was originally published on the Music Blog of the British Library (Creative Commons Attribution Licence): In the last year we digitised nearly 40 manuscript volumes from the Royal Music Library, including autographs by Agostino Steffani, J.C. Bach, Alessandro Scarlatti, and other composers. Among the manuscripts digitised are 24...
16 August 2021
The Music Collection at the Diocesan Library in Sandomierz in the RISM Catalog
We have received the following from Magda Walter-Mazur (RISM Poland): The project to catalog the music manuscripts from the Diocesan Library in Sandomierz (PL-SA) has been completed. It was carried out from 2017 to 2021 by Magdalena Walter-Mazur, Karolina Kaźmierczak and Michał Wysocki with financial support from the Institute of...
2 August 2021
