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Johann Adolph Scheibe (1706–1776) – A descriptive catalogue of his works
The following has reached us from Peter Hauge (Royal Danish Library): For the first time ever a detailed descriptive catalogue of Johann Adolph Scheibe’s works has been published as a database. Scheibe was very productive, not only as a composer – ranging from large-scale cantatas and oratorios to sinfonias, chamber...
30 November 2017 – Electronic resources
RISM B/I (Recueils imprimés XVIe Siècles) Version 2.0 - A Report from the Central Office
Longtime RISM users know that expanded entries from series B/I (printed anthologies, covering the years 1500 to 1550) were added to the online catalog in 2015. Our student worker Martin Bierwisch has been working on revising these records since April of this year, funded through support from the Kulturfond der...
27 November 2017 – New at RISM
50th Anniversary of the Death of Otto Erich Deutsch
Otto Erich Deutsch (1883-1967), who died 50 years ago today, shares a common destiny with Ludwig von Köchel (1800-1877) and Anthony van Hoboken (1887-1983): he is remembered largely thanks to a thematic catalog. Even more connects Deutsch with Hoboken: from 1926 to 1935 Deutsch was the librarian of Hoboken’s music...
23 November 2017 – Musical anniversaries
2017/11: The Collaborative Project on Chinese Music Resources 2017 Annual Meeting and the RISM Cataloging Workshop are inaugurated at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music
The following has reached us from TSENG Tzu-Chia of the RISM-Chinese Language Region working group: The annual meeting of the Collaborative Project on Chinese Music Resources and the International Workshop on Repatriation: History and Significance of Early Sound Recordings Made in China took place on November 8, 2017. At the...
20 November 2017 – Events
One Year of Muscat
Muscat has been in use by the wider RISM community for one year! One year ago, RISM released its specialized cataloging program for describing musical sources to RISM contributors worldwide. Muscat provides users with a web-based, platform-independent program that can be used to describe music manuscripts, printed music, treatises, and...
16 November 2017 – New at RISM
First German Performance of Matthias Pernsteiner's "Missa posta in musica"
On Sunday, 26 November 2017, a traditional church concert will take place at St. Philippus’ in Munich (Westendstr. 249, 80686 Munich). A highlight of the concert will be the first German performance of a mass in E-flat by Matthias Pernsteiner (1795-1851). From 1822 to 1823, Pernsteiner was the organist at...
13 November 2017 – Events
The 250th Birthday of Bernhard Heinrich Romberg
Bernhard Heinrich Romberg (baptized 13 November 1767, Dinklage – 13 August 1841, Hamburg) was a German cellist and composer. Bernhard Romberg played in concerts in Münster at the young age of seven together with his cousin who was the same age, Andreas Romberg (1767–1821), who played violin. They toured together...
9 November 2017 – Musical anniversaries
Der 250. Geburtstag von Bernhard Heinrich Romberg
Bernhard Heinrich Romberg (bapt. 13 November 1767, Dinklage – 13 August 1841, Hamburg) war ein deutscher Cellist und Komponist. Gemeinsam mit seinem etwa gleichaltrigen Cousin Andreas Romberg (1767–1821), der Violine spielte, trat Bernhard Romberg schon im Alter von sieben Jahren in Münster öffentlich auf. Ihre Konzertreisen durch Europa führten sie...
9 November 2017 – Events
A small clutch of Schreivogel manuscripts
Thanks to a recent article by Michael Talbot, the RISM database has a nice, small collection of seven works by Johann Friedrich Schreivogel (born ca. 1690, fl. 1707–1749). Schreivogel’s known works consist of two, maybe three sonatas and three concertos at the Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB) in...
6 November 2017 – New at RISM
Musicologists, Muscat, and Mexico
RISM was invited to the conference “Celebración y Sonoridad en Hispanoamérica (Siglos XVI-XIX): Homenaje a José López-Calo,” which took place last month from 4-6 October in Morelia, Mexico. The conference was organized by the Centro Cultural de la UNAM, the Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad Morelia, UNAM, and the...
2 November 2017 – Events
