News archive
Remembering Danuta Szlagowska (1946-2018)
We were saddened to hear of the death of our dear colleague Prof. Dr. Hab. Danuta Szlagwoska, who passed away on 13 March 2018. Prof. Szlagwoska had been a member of the RISM Poland working group in Gdańsk since 1997. Through her extensive documentation work there, she contributed immensely to...
26 March 2018 – In memoriam
100th Anniversary of Claude Debussy's Death
The following post is by Ulrike Schädel, our intern for winter 2018: This Sunday, 25 March 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of Claude Debussy’s death. He was born in a little French village in 1862 and died at the age of 56 in 1918 in Paris. The RISM database reveals...
22 March 2018 – Musical anniversaries
The Compositions Attributed to G. F. Handel, 1700-1800
This one is new to our bookshelves: Hans Joachim Marx and Steffen Voss, Die G. F. Händel zugeschriebenen Kompositionen, 1700-1800 / The Compositions Attributed to G. F. Handel, 1700-1800 (HWV Anh. B) (Hildesheim: Olms, 2017). ISBN: 978-3-487-15483-1. This book is the result of a project called “Händel-Incerta,” or works of...
19 March 2018 – New publications
Lili Boulanger (21 August 1893–15 March 1918)
The following is a guest post by Dr. Anya Holland-Barry. She received her PhD in Musicology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her dissertation is entitled “Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) and World War I France: Mobilizing Motherhood and the Good Suffering.” Marie-Juliette Olga (“Lili”) Boulanger (21 August 1893–15 March 1918)...
15 March 2018 – Musical anniversaries
The Music Printing History Online Museum
We stumbled upon this interesting online museum: Music Printing History. It details different technological aspects concerning printing music and is richly illustrated. You can see examples of the technology that brought about the historical printed music that RISM currently covers (to about 1800): woodblocks, movable type (image, left), and engraving....
12 March 2018 – Electronic resources
International Women's Day: Women Pianists in RISM
Note: This post was updated in 2022. Today is International Women’s Day. Last year we published a list of the ca. 800 women composers who are found in the RISM online database. In June we added eight more names to the list and in October another twelve were added. This...
8 March 2018 – Events
Frisian and the European Capital of Culture 2018
We have received the following from Simon Groot (Universiteit van Amsterdam, RISM Netherlands): One of the European Capitals of Culture in 2018 is Leeuwarden, the capital city of the northern Dutch province Friesland (Frisia). Although a small country, in the Netherlands several dialects of the national language do exist. The...
5 March 2018 – In the news
The new database Medieval Music Manuscripts Online
We received this announcement from Dominique Gatté and is posted with kind permission: We are excited to announce that the new database MMMOd (Medieval music manuscripts online database) is now online. musmed.eu In June 2017, I published an initial version of this database using Google Fusion Tables. The new database...
1 March 2018 – Electronic resources
The 2017 Annual Report
The annual report for the RISM Central Office has been published on our website. Here are some of the highlights: Total records: Thanks to the hard work of our international contributors, the RISM online catalog currently has 1,090,000 records. Contributions from national groups: The following national groups created new records...
26 February 2018 – New publications
Music in Different Languages for International Mother Language Day
Today, February 21, is officially International Mother Language Day. This day was first commemorated in 2000 by the United Nations in order to highlight the significance of native languages as a cultural asset and to foster the linguistic and cultural diversity of people around the world. Over 6,000 languages are...
21 February 2018 – RISM online catalog
