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A Century of John Milton Ward
The following is a guest post by Andrea Cawelti, Ward Music Cataloger at Harvard University’s Houghton Library, with contributions concerning the Ward materials in RISM by Christina Linklater, Keeper of the Isham Memorial Library and Houghton Music Cataloger. Today, John Milton Ward, the donor of the Harvard Theatre Collection’s Ward...
6 July 2017 – Musical anniversaries
Dr. Kurt Dorfmüller (28 April 1922 – 16 June 2017)
“RISM owes a great debt of gratitude to Herr Dorfmüller for his long-time service as a member of the Commission Mixte and as chair of his Advisory Research Committee.” So wrote the then-president of the Association Internationales Quellenlexikon der Musik e.V., Harald Heckmann, in 1998. The Advisory Research Committee, under...
4 July 2017 – In memoriam
Barbara Strozzi: A Woman Composer in 17th-Century Venice
The following was written by Vivian Tompkins, our intern at the Central Office in Frankfurt in summer 2017: 2017 is an important anniversary for Venice. This year the city celebrates the life and works of Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), who was born 450 years ago. While Monteverdi is certainly the best...
3 July 2017 – New at RISM
Eight More Women Composers
This past International Women’s Day, 8 March 2017, we published a list of 800 women composers who have sources in the RISM database. We are happy to say that since then, we have been able to add eight more names to the list. Some of the composers’ works had been...
29 June 2017 – New at RISM
The European Capitals of Culture 2017: Paphos and Aarhus
The cities of Paphos, Cyprus and Aarhus, Denmark are the two European Capitals of Culture in 2017. Paphos is located in the southwest corner of Cyprus and offers visitors countless ancient treasures. Among these are magnificent mosaic floors from Roman times and the Temple of Aphrodite in Old Paphos. Unfortunately...
26 June 2017 – In the news
The 250th Anniversary of the Death of Georg Philipp Telemann
In 2017 all roads lead to Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), who died 250 years ago on 25 June. This major anniversary has set in motion numerous projects. At the end of last year, the cities in which Telemann lived and worked—including Magdeburg, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Hildesheim, Leipzig, Żary, Pszczyna, Eisenach, Frankfurt am...
22 June 2017 – Musical anniversaries
Johann Martin Friedrich Nisle (1780-after 1861)
Our series RISM A–Z is moving right along, and here is the second entry for letter N. Anyone who looks for Johann Martin Friedrich Nisle in music encyclopedias will first come across the alternative first names Jean (Frédéric) and Giovanni. This is in fact an indication that the horn player...
19 June 2017 – RISM A-Z
Johann Stamitz at 300
The appointment of Johann Wenzel Stamitz (baptized 19 June 1717 in Havlíčkův Brod, died 27 March 1757 in Mannheim) as first violinist of the court orchestra of the Elector Palatine Carl Theodor likely took place in 1741, and from 1750 until his death he was director of instrumental music there....
16 June 2017 – Musical anniversaries
RISM at the IAML Congress in Riga
RISM is heading to the Baltic coast this month to participate in the annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres. From 18-22 June 2017, we will see our colleagues around the world at the stunning National Library of Latvia in Riga. As usual, RISM...
12 June 2017 – Events
Paweł Podejko - an author and his thematic catalogue
Paweł Podejko’s name is most closely associated with his thematic catalogue of the historic music collection of the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa (RISM library siglum: PL-CZ). Published in Kraków in 1992, Katalog tematyczny rękopisów i druków muzycznych kapeli wokalno-instrumentalnej na Jasnej Górze lists manuscript and printed music that is...
9 June 2017 – Library collections
