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New Insight on Maurice Greene's Italian Vocal Music
A recent article by Michael Talbot has shed some light on the “Italian” vocal music of Maurice Greene (1696-1755) and has uncovered two previously overlooked works. Moreover, Talbot identified a handful of pieces that were previously anonymous in RISM. In “Maurice Greene’s Vocal Chamber Music on Italian Texts” (Royal Musical...
9 October 2017
John Field's Piano Nocturnes
The year 1812 brought the chaos of war to the European continent when Napoleon’s army went clear through Europe to Russia and reached Moscow. The outcome, as we know, was disastrous for the deuxième Grande Armée. It was the beginning of the end of Napoleonic rule in France and Europe....
11 September 2017
New Members of the RISM Commission Mixte Announced
RISM operates under the auspices of the International Musicological Society and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres. When RISM was founded, a Commission Mixte (CM) was established that consists of delegates from both of these societies. The CM was reorganized in 2007 by then-president Christoph Wolff....
10 August 2017
A Musicological Summer in Frankfurt
Our intern in the summer of 2017 was Vivian Tompkins, and what follows is a report of her experiences: Musicology, music librarianship, and German language study are the three main interests that I discovered in the course of my undergraduate career, so it was thrilling for me to find out...
17 July 2017
Barbara Strozzi: A Woman Composer in 17th-Century Venice
The following was written by Vivian Tompkins, our intern at the Central Office in Frankfurt in summer 2017: 2017 is an important anniversary for Venice. This year the city celebrates the life and works of Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), who was born 450 years ago. While Monteverdi is certainly the best...
3 July 2017
Eight More Women Composers
This past International Women’s Day, 8 March 2017, we published a list of 800 women composers who have sources in the RISM database. We are happy to say that since then, we have been able to add eight more names to the list. Some of the composers’ works had been...
29 June 2017
100 Days of Muscat
We’ve reached a Muscat milestone: we have been using our specially developed music cataloging program for just over 100 days! Over 150 contributors around the world have Muscat and over 3,700 records have been added to the RISM online catalog since the release in November 2016. Muscat continues to be...
20 March 2017
The Spitzeders, A Musical Family
If you search for “Spitzeder” online, you’ll first stumble upon a lot of websites related to the actress Adele Spitzeder (1832-1895; image left). She has a musical tie-in (later in life she performed popular songs as the singer Adele Vio), but today she is more infamous than famous for founding...
23 February 2017
Looking Back on 2016
The year 2016 was a big year for us: we released our long-awaited and well-received cataloging program Muscat, we invited thirteen colleagues to speak on the state of source research in Central and South America at the conference Documenting Musical Sources in Latin America, and we published another volume in...
12 January 2017
Weihnachtsgrüße 2016!
Die RISM Zentralredaktion wünscht Ihnen und Ihrer Familie ein frohes Weihnachtsfest und ein gutes Neues Jahr. Wir freuen uns auf die weitere Zusammenarbeit im kommenden Jahr! Abbildung: Historische Bildpostkarten - Universität Osnabrück - Sammlung Prof. Dr. Sabine Giesbrecht, via Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
22 December 2016
