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Preserving Ukrainian musical heritage
In January we reported on an initiative of the German Musicological Society (GfM) to help Ukrainian institutions preserve their musical heritage. This time we are pleased to share the news that, at the instigation of RISM and the GfM, the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv (RISM library siglum:...
1 August 2024 – In the news
The Performance Material for Richard Wagner's “Tristan and Isolde” in Dresden
Tonight, the Bayreuth Festival opens with Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. A good opportunity to take a brief look at the sources of this work described in RISM. The composer prepared his first sketches as early as 1857, and an autograph album leaf, written in Paris in 1860, can now...
25 July 2024 – Events
‘The Seven Last Words of Christ’ by Haydn and Barbieri
An ambitious digitization project targeting the musical heritage collections of the National Library of Spain has provided access to 31,000 musical sources that were long accessible only in the reading room, thereby inspiring both musicians and scholars to new discoveries. In the following we reprint from the library’s blog –...
18 July 2024 – Library collections
What an anniversary year is good for
The following text by Eberhard von Oppen originally appeared on the Carus-Blog and is reproduced here with the publisher’s kind permission. The tendency to focus on “round” time intervals according to the globally dominant decimal system and celebrate the respective anniversaries is as widespread as it is justifiable, since the...
11 July 2024 – Events
A Musical Guide to the European Football Championship
On 14 June the European Football Championship 2024 started in Germany. 24 national teams had qualified for it; in the meantime two thirds of them have been eliminated. Now we look forward to the quarter- and semifinals, culminating in the final on Sunday, 14 July 2024. In the two-day break...
4 July 2024 – Events
New RISM Sigla for South African Institutions
The IAML Congress in Stellenbosch, South Africa, is underway. In anticipation of the congress, we have used the Directory of South African Music Collections by Santie de Jongh to update our sigla for South Africa. As part of our work to document musical sources worldwide, RISM assigns an abbreviation, called...
27 June 2024 – New at RISM
RISM at the EarlyMuse meeting in Wrocław
EarlyMuse is a Europe-wide scientific network that aims to strengthen the place of early music research in Europe. It forms part of the program for European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST Action) meant to fund not research per se, but rather scientific collaborations such as conferences, training schools, and...
20 June 2024 – New at RISM
Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae and RISM
RISM was invited to a workshop entitled “Mapping and Harmonizing Metadata and Normed Data” on March 14 and 15, 2024, hosted by the Orient-Institut Istanbul and led by participants of the project Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO). The CMO project produces critical editions of Near Eastern music manuscripts alongside a source...
13 June 2024 – New at RISM
RISM at the 2024 IAML Congress in Stellenbosch, South Africa
This year’s annual IAML Congress will take place in Stellenbosch, South Africa and will mark the first time a IAML congress has taken place on the African continent. Our Stellenbosch page lists the RISM events during the week: the RISM session, a meeting of the Coordinating Committee, and a two-part...
6 June 2024 – Events
250 years of the music publisher André in Offenbach
There are many musical anniversaries to celebrate this year (for a list, see our earlier post). However, the notable anniversaries include not only those of musicians and composers but also those of companies. A case in point is the music publishing house of Johann André, founded in Offenbach in 1774,...
29 May 2024 – Events
