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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
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
