Archive des actualités – Nouveautés
RISM Data, Big Data
The RISM online catalog currently contains over 1,052,000 records. When you count these along with 101,000 authority files for people, 63,000 for institutions, and 32,000 for secondary literature, that’s a lot of data! All of it is freely available as linked open data under a Creative Commons license, but what...
8 September 2016
Johann Jacob Rambach, Theologian and Writer
Johann Jacob Rambach (1693-1735) first completed an apprenticeship as a joiner before he turned to theology. Born in Halle, Rambach published works on hermeneutics and various collections of sermons. But a further 360 of his song texts have also survived. In fact, many composers drew upon his publication Geistliche Poesien...
5 September 2016
"Thematic catalogue of 17th-century organ tablatures from the Liegnitz Bibliotheca Rudolphina" by Elżbieta Wojnowska
A thematic catalog by Elżbieta Wojnowska (1949-2012) has just been published by the National Library of Poland: Elżbieta Wojnowska, Thematic Catalogue of 17th-Century Organ Tablatures from the Liegnitz Bibliotheca Rudolphina, ed. Tomasz Jeż. Warsaw: Biblioteka Narodowa, 2016. The catalog documents four manuscript organ tablatures that were originally held by the...
1 September 2016
New RISM Publications in Chinese
The Chinese Version of Brochure and entry “RISM” of Chinese Wikipedia are both officially online! With the assistance of RISM Zentralredaktion and international advisors Dr. Nora YEH and Prof. Judy TSOU, RISM Chinese Language Region has completed the Chinese translation of the brochure and Wikipedia article for the entry “RISM.”...
1 August 2016
Newly Cataloged Music from Chile
A new article in the current issue of Fontes Artis Musicae calls attention to recently cataloged music collections in Chile: Laura Fahrenkrog and Fernanda Vera, “Recently Catalogued Music Archives and Fonds in Santiago, Chile: A Contribution to the Dissemination of Written Musical Heritage of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.” Fontes...
18 July 2016
"Amandus Ivanschiz: His Life and Music" by Maciej Jochymczyk
Dr. Maciej Jochymczyk, instructor at the Musicology Institute of Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland), has recently published his second book about composer Amandus Ivanschiz (1727-1758), which follows Muzyka religijna u progu klasycyzmu. Amandus Ivanschiz OSPPE (1727-1758) (Lublin: Wydawnictwo Polihymnia, 2014). Amandus Ivanschiz: His Life and Music. With a Thematic Catalog of...
23 June 2016
New publication about Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen, a composer of two nations
Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann and Christiane Wiesenfeldt, eds, Der Komponist Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen (1761-1817): Gattungen, Werke, Kontexte. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2015. ISBN 978-3-412-22275-8 Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen was mainly active in Denmark even though he was born in Lübeck to a family that included organists at St. Mary’s Church. In 1785...
27 May 2016
Results of the RISM User Survey Published
We are pleased to present the results of the RISM catalog survey, available on the RISM Survey page: The RISM Online User Survey: Report (May 2016; also available in German) The survey was conducted from October 30, 2014 until February 28, 2015. We received a total of 551 responses from...
17 May 2016
José Antonio Gómez y Olguín (1805-1876) y su Catálogo musical
John G. Lazos, who has cataloged hundreds of manuscripts in Mexico for RISM, has published a catalog of composer José Antonio Gómez y Olguín’s works in Mexican archives: John G. Lazos. José Antonio Gómez y Olguín (1805-1876) y su Catálogo musical: Un acercamiento a la práctica musical del México decimonónico....
7 March 2016
The 2015 Annual Report
The past year was an exciting one for RISM, as the recently published annual report for 2015 shows. Thanks to the hard work from RISM contributors and partners around the world, we hit the 1,000,000th record in the RISM database and are looking ahead to the next milestone. Here are...
3 March 2016
