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Woelfl-Haus Bonn: A Center for Music and Research
A catalog of Joseph Woelfl’s works, listing no fewer than 620 compositions, was first published in 2011 (RISM short title: HaiW - RISM Catalog | RISM Online). Its second edition will be made available online at the end of 2025, as well as in print the following year. In 2022,...
10 April 2025 – Library collections
New Research Guide on Robert Schumann
The following post originally appeared on the “In the Muse” blog from the Library of Congress. The Music Division is pleased to announce the publication of a new research guide outlining the Library’s rich primary and secondary sources concerning Robert Schumann. Schumann (1810–1856) was an influential composer, pianist, and music...
3 April 2025 – Library collections
EarlyMuse Report Available Online
Last May several representatives of the larger RISM community traveled to Wrocław to participate in a three-day meeting of the EarlyMuse network that seeks to establish “A new ecosystem of early music studies.” While we already published a brief account of this event, it may be of interest for many...
27 March 2025 – New at RISM
Annual Report 2024
At the time of delivering this report, RISM is in the middle of a two-year phase of transition. While in 2024–25 the Editorial Center in Frankfurt am Main is still financed under the auspices of the German Akademienprogramm, it is now operating on a reduced budget and must intensively be...
20 March 2025 – New publications
RISM Online Winter 2025 Update
The Winter 2025 Update for RISM Online brings with it a whole array of new features, improvements, and bug fixes. This update has been in development since August of 2024, and we hope you will find the changes useful. Cantus Database Integration RISM Online will now provide results from the...
13 March 2025 – RISM Digital Center
International Women's Day: Women Composers in RISM
In 2017 we celebrated the International Women’s Day by publishing a list of all women composers found in the RISM database. Following a 2021 update, it is time to yet again publish a revised list to reflect RISM’s ever more complete coverage. The list that in 2017 included 800 names,...
6 March 2025 – Events
New Website for RISM Cataloging Guidelines
The RISM Editorial Center announces the publication of the RISM Cataloging Guidelines on a dedicated website developed by the RISM Digital Center, guidelines.rism.info. The guidelines are RISM’s rules and procedures for describing historical musical sources, and are adapted for use in the cataloging program Muscat which is used by RISM...
27 February 2025 – New at RISM
The Musical Public Domain in 2025
The Roaring Twenties have finally completely arrived! On 1 January 2025, works published in 1929 entered the public domain in the United States, making publications from the 1920s free to use, at least in the US. In law, the phrase “public domain” refers to works without copyright, usually because copyright...
20 February 2025 – In the news
The Warsaw Chopin Institute has acquired yet another Chopin autograph
The National Frédéric Chopin Institute (in Polish: Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, abbreviated as NIFC) has acquired a Chopin autograph from the collection of the late Rudolf F. Kallir (1895–1987). The purchase was made possible by the generous support of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The acquired source...
13 February 2025 – Library collections
Goethe’s Muse and Co-Author: Marianne von Willemer
Our RISM A-Z series reaches letter W today and, as so often, we decide in favor of a lady, also with an eye to local history. Marianne von Willemer (born 20 November 1784, Linz (?) – died 6 December 1860, Frankfurt am Main) was an Austrian-born actress and dancer. After...
6 February 2025 – RISM A-Z
