Archive des actualités – Anniversaires
For the 150th anniversary of one of Mexico’s most prolific musicians
Few musicians occupied as many roles in the musical life of 19th-century Mexico as José Antonio Gómez y Olguín (1805–1876). As composer, performer, pedagogue, editor, publisher, and cultural entrepreneur he belongs among the most influential figures of his time. The rediscovery and cataloging of Gómez’s surviving original sources have...
9 July 2026
Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of Carl Maria von Weber’s death
Carl Maria von Weber died on 5 June 1826, at the age of 40 in London, where he had premiered his final opera, Oberon, König der Elfen, at the Haymarket Theatre just a few months earlier. The original English title was actually Oberon, or the Elf King’s Oath, and librettist...
5 June 2026
Musical Anniversaries in 2026
Happy New Year! As in past years, we are using the beginning of the year to look at significant anniversaries of birth or death for people found in RISM. We are listing not only our RISM composers, but also librettists, performers, dedicatees, or other people who are connected to a...
8 January 2026
Musical Anniversaries in 2025
Happy New Year! As in past years, we are using the beginning of the year to look at significant anniversaries of birth or death for people found in RISM. We are listing not only our RISM composers, but also librettists, performers, dedicatees, or other people who are connected to a...
9 January 2025
Musical Anniversaries in 2024
Happy New Year! As in past years, we are using the beginning of the year to look at significant anniversaries of birth or death for people found in RISM. We are listing not only our RISM composers, but also librettists, performers, dedicatees, or other people who are connected to a...
11 January 2024
The 240th Anniversary of Ignaz Holzbauer's Death (1711-1783)
Ignaz Holzbauer (1711-1783)—one of the most important representative of the Mannheim School—is particularly remembered for his German-language opera Günther von Schwarzburg. Two years after the premiere in Mannheim in 1777, he composed an Italian opera, La morte di Didone (1779), based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio. A revision as...
27 April 2023
Musical Anniversaries in 2023
Happy New Year! As in past years, we are using the beginning of the year to look at significant anniversaries of birth or death for people found in RISM. We are listing not only our RISM composers, but also librettists, performers, dedicatees, or other people who are connected to a...
9 January 2023
Lucile Grétry at 250
The following is by our recent intern, Ayleen Klinder: Angélique-Dorothée-Louise Grétry, called Lucile, was the second daughter of the famous composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry. She was born on 15 July 1772 and died of tuberculosis at the young age of 17 in March 1790. Her 250th birthday was in July 2022....
20 October 2022
Clara Faisst at 150
We recently told you about the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe and how they completed cataloging for their historical music. Among their collections is the archive of the composer, pianist, and poet Clara Faisst (1872-1948). Her 150th birthday is on 22 June. After studying at the Königliche Hochschule in Berlin, Faisst...
22 June 2022
The 200th Birthday of Joachim Raff
That Joachim Raff has been forgotten by music history can no more be said than that he still has a permanent place in the repertoire. His merits as the first director of the Hoch’sches Konservatorium in Frankfurt are undisputed. He was able to turn the conservatory into one of the...
27 May 2022
