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Müllner-Peter Symposium in Sachrang (Bavaria)
We have received the following from Steffen Voss (RISM Germany): This year marks the 175th anniversary of the death of Peter Huber, known as Müllner-Peter, the “Milner Peter from Sachrang” (1766-1843). Huber owned a mill in the small mountain village of Sachrang in the Chiemgau region of Bavaria and was...
28 June 2018 – Events
Celebrating Music Manuscripts and the European Year of Cultural Heritage
The year 2018 has been named the European Year of Cultural Heritage. Throughout the continent, the focus is on cultural heritage as expressed in a wide variety of manifestations: monuments, books, clothing, historic towns, oral traditions, landscapes, digitized objects—even performing arts and music—and much more. The goal is to “encourage...
25 June 2018 – In the news
A RISM Internship: Report from the Central Office in Frankfurt
The following is by Ulrike Schädel, who was an intern in the Central Office in the winter/spring of 2018. I encountered RISM for the first time in the course of musicological research. By chance, I happened to hear about an opportunity to complete a five-week internship at RISM. Everything was...
21 June 2018 – New at RISM
Charles Gounod at 200
Yesterday we celebrated the 200th birthday of the French composer, conductor, and organist Charles Gounod (17 June 1818 – 18 October 1893). Gounod is especially known today as the composer of the operas Faust (1859) and Roméo et Juliette (1867). But this does not do justice to his extensive oeuvre,...
18 June 2018 – Musical anniversaries
A Musical Guide to the World Cup
Summer can officially begin! The World Cup is here. Tonight is the first game of the 2018 World Cup, in which the men’s teams of 32 nations will compete for the ultimate prize in soccer. We’re starting the group stage with a look at the musical sources for each of...
14 June 2018 – Events
Music and the Natural Sciences in 1800
Sometimes musical sources are well hidden. Or would your normally expect an imprint entitled Discourse Introductory to a Course of Lectures on the Science of Nature to have an appendix containing three vocal pieces? The Discourse is actually interesting in several regards. The author of the book itself is Charles...
11 June 2018 – Library collections
Philippe Quinault (1635-1688)
Our occasional series RISM A–Z brings us to the letter Q. Christoph Willibald Gluck, Carl Heinrich Graun, Georg Friedrich Händel, Jean-Baptiste Lully, and Tommaso Traetta are some composers associated with the librettist Philippe Quinault (baptized 5 June 1635, Paris – 26 November 1688, Paris). The son of a baker, Quinault...
7 June 2018 – RISM A-Z
New Ysaÿe manuscripts in the Royal Library of Belgium
We have received the following from Kris De Baerdemacker of RISM Belgium and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, Muziekafdeling - Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Section de la Musique: The Music Division of the Royal Library of Belgium has recently acquired three Eugène Ysaÿe manuscripts: the autograph score Poème élégiaque arranged...
28 May 2018 – Library collections
Music treasure lost and found
The following originally appeared on the Music Blog of the British Library and is © British Library Board and posted here under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence. Music cataloguing had a rather shaky beginning in the British Library. In the Library’s early years when it was part of the British...
24 May 2018 – Library collections
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
