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Muscat Workshops this Fall
Muscat, RISM’s specialized software for cataloging musical sources, now has nearly 200 users. We continue to gain new contributors each month. Workshops are important ways of introducing contributors to the fundamentals of cataloging with RISM. This fall, four workshops will take place in three countries: Muscat Workshop at the Fryderyk...
25 September 2017 – Events
Happy 430th Birthday, Francesca Caccini!
Francesca Caccini (1587 – ca. 1640), along with Barbara Strozzi, was the most influential and famous woman composer and musician of the early seventeenth century. Caccini’s output is strongly marked by her own creative family, the Medicis, and the artistic atmosphere surrounding the Florentine court. Her career as a singer...
18 September 2017 – Musical anniversaries
Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky (1803-1869) and Music
Today we are continuing our Russian Week (see also the post from Monday about John Field in St. Petersburg) with letter O of the series RISM A–Z. The spotlight is on a prominent figure of Russian music and cultural life in the nineteenth century. Author, philosopher, composer, copyist, music critic,...
14 September 2017 – RISM A-Z
John Field's Piano Nocturnes
The year 1812 brought the chaos of war to the European continent when Napoleon’s army went clear through Europe to Russia and reached Moscow. The outcome, as we know, was disastrous for the deuxième Grande Armée. It was the beginning of the end of Napoleonic rule in France and Europe....
11 September 2017 – New at RISM
Pietro Nardini Thematic Catalog
New on our bookshelves is a thematic catalog for Pietro Nardini: Federico Marri and Marie Rouquié, Pietro Nardini (1722-1793) da Livorno all’Europa: Catalogo tematico delle opere (Treviso: Diastema 2017). 764 p., ISBN 978-88-96988-46-6. Composer and violinist Pietro Nardini (12 April 1722, Livorno – 7 May 1793, Florence) was the most...
28 August 2017 – New publications
Nancy Storace (1765-1817)
Nancy Storace (1765-1817) was a celebrated English soprano, perhaps most famous for originating the role of Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. Storace—and there is evidently no consensus whether to pronounce her name the English or the Italian way—was in the headlines last year when a long-lost joint composition...
24 August 2017 – Musical anniversaries
New Members of the RISM Commission Mixte Announced
RISM operates under the auspices of the International Musicological Society and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres. When RISM was founded, a Commission Mixte (CM) was established that consists of delegates from both of these societies. The CM was reorganized in 2007 by then-president Christoph Wolff....
10 August 2017 – New at RISM
Liturgical Festivals in the RISM Database with Three Examples
These holidays are familiar to many: saint’s feast days, the celebration of name days, and the Christian holidays such as Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost. But did you know that the Church also celebrates historical events such as the Exaltation of the Holy Cross? One clear example of the significance of...
7 August 2017 – RISM online catalog
New RISM Brochure Available in Portuguese
RISM is pleased to announce that the brochure “RISM: An Overview” is now available in an English-Portuguese version entitled “RISM: Uma visão Geral.” It can be downloaded from the RISM website. We would like to thank Beatriz Magalhães Castro (RISM Brazil) and Sílvia Sequeira (RISM Portugal) for translating the brochure...
3 August 2017 – New publications
Amélie-Julie Candeille at 250
Child prodigy, singer, actress, composer, librettist, harpist, pianist, playwright, comedian, or maybe simply polymath…few of the people in the RISM database can lay claim to so many roles. Amélie-Julie Candeille (1767-1834), who was born 250 years ago today, found success on a number of fronts in Parisian musical life and...
31 July 2017 – Musical anniversaries
