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IAML Online Event "Researching and Cataloging Historical Bookbindings: Two Perspectives"
The following has reached us from the IAML Online Events Committee. The IAML Online Events Committee and the Research Libraries Section are pleased to announce a new 2026 online event on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at 14:00 UTC/GMT. See other time zones by clicking here. Participation is free and open...
12 February 2026 – Events
First recording of nine Renaissance pieces
In December 2025, the Basel Forum for Early Music ReRenaissance released the album Lost & Found: Rediscovered Treasures of the German Renaissance, produced in collaboration with the RISM Digital Center. This is the first recording of nine compositions from the early 16th century that were long considered incomplete. These compositions...
5 February 2026 – Rediscovered
Looking back on 2025
As in past years, we are using the beginning of a new year to take stock of the previous year and share what was most popular with our website readers. These are the year’s blog posts that were read the most often, according to our website statistics: ...
29 January 2026 – Events
The Musical Public Domain in 2026
Every year, the public domain grows, enriching the pool of works that can be drawn upon to inspire creativity. In law, the “public domain” refers to works without copyright, usually because copyright has expired. In most of the European Union, the works of people who died in 1955 are now...
22 January 2026 – In the news
Made by Haydn?
In their Studies on Works Falsely Attributed to Joseph Haydn the above question is raised by Prof. Dr. Arnold Jacobshagen (Cologne University of Music and Dance, Institute for Historical Musicology) as well as project collaborators Dr. Susanne Schrage, Silke Schloen, and Ioannis Tsiliakis. Researchers scrutinizing the sources of Haydn’s compositions...
15 January 2026 – In the news
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
“Christmas” by Engelbert Humperdinck
In the past two years our last news items presented musical greetings for the New Year: a tiny chorus by Carl Eberwein preserved in the collection of the Berlin Sing-Akademie, and a playful vocal bagatelle by Luigi Cherubini, apparently dedicated to his friend Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, a famous collector of decorative...
18 December 2025 – Events
New at the Bibliotheca Mozartiana of the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in Salzburg - Mozart Autographs of the Eggers Collection
It is the fate of most private collections that the treasures brought together over a long period of time, are dispersed again. In former days typically in one single auction, nowadays often artificially prolonged over as series of sales so as not to saturate the market. Many of the Mozart...
11 December 2025 – Library collections
Searching by Instrumentation in RISM
For musicians, one of the most helpful features of the RISM database is the ability to search by instrumentation. We have put together a new page to help you navigate RISM’s instrument abbreviations. We also offer detailed instructions on how to search by instrument in both the RISM Catalog and...
4 December 2025 – New at RISM
How to Integrate RISM Searches on Your Website
Have you ever launched RISM searches directly from the rism.info website? You simply enter a phrase in the search box at the top of the page, hit Enter – and you can view the results right away in RISM Online or the RISM Catalog (depending on your preset choice). Since...
27 November 2025 – RISM Digital Center
