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Royal Wedding Fever
We’re still waiting for our invitation to the Royal Wedding this Saturday, but we won’t give up hope yet (maybe it just got lost in the mail). While details have not yet been divulged about what pieces will specifically be played at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding ceremony, we...
17 May 2018 – Events
Stories from Special Collections: When did "Così fan tutte" go to Detmold?
The following is by Joachim Eberhardt and originally appeared on the website of the Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold. It is reproduced here with kind permission. This mystery came to light through a question from a researcher: In our library, there is a set of handwritten score and parts for Mozart’s Così...
14 May 2018 – Library collections
The 200th Anniversary of Leopold Koželuh's Death
The Bohemian composer Leopold Koželuh (1747-1818) was baptized with the names Jan Antonín, but to avoid confusion with his cousin of the same name, he added Leopold by 1774. Leopold learned composition from Jan Antonín (the cousin) and piano from František Xaver Dušek. After initial success as a composer in...
7 May 2018 – Musical anniversaries
New Watermark Digitization Project at the Bavarian State Library
We have received the following from Bernhard Lutz of RISM Germany: Indexing and digitization of watermarks in the music manuscripts of the Bavarian State Library up to the end of the 17th century The Bavarian State Library holds an internationally important collection of music manuscripts from the late Middle Ages...
2 May 2018 – Library collections
Downloading and Using Your Library's RISM Records
Sometimes libraries have their manuscripts cataloged in the RISM database but these records are not in the library’s local catalog. Did you know you can download your RISM records and import them into your library’s OPAC? The Moravian Music Foundation (MMF) did just this for over 900 records that were...
26 April 2018 – Library collections
RISM at the III Encuentro de Archivos Sonoros y Musicales de Chile
I (Klaus Keil) had the opportunity to give a presentation about RISM and its database of musical sources during the conference III Encuentro de Archivos Sonoros y Musicales de Chile (5-16 March 2018). The Biblioteca nacional de Chile invited me to participate in the conference. During the conference, training courses...
23 April 2018 – Events
Printed Music to 1550: A Report from the Central Office II
For those who are interested in early music prints, watch out! After revising the entries from the RISM B/I series to 1550 (see report) and related A/I entries, all of the remaining A/I entries to 1550 have now been revised. Some of them now have exact years and in other...
19 April 2018 – New at RISM
Bach Family Autographs Online
Have you ever seen Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of the Fugue in the composer’s own handwriting? How about the St. Matthew Passion or the Well-Tempered Clavier? With the Bach Digital database, you have all this and more at your fingertips. If you’re not familiar with this resource, Bach Digital is...
16 April 2018 – Electronic resources
The Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth is open again, in all its Baroque glory
After more than five years of renovation, the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth will reopen in a ceremony today (12 April). This Baroque opera house is one of a kind in the world, with a splendid wooden interior surrounded by tiered boxes, and has been a UNESCO World Heritage site...
12 April 2018 – Events
RISM's B/III (The Theory of Music) Now a Database
We have received this announcement from our colleague Christian Meyer: The catalogs of manuscripts described in RISM’s series B/III (The Theory of Music, 6 vol., Munich: G. Henle, 1961-2003), published online in 2001 through the Lexicon musicum Latinum (LML), is now available as a database. The HTML pages and the...
9 April 2018 – Electronic resources
