News archive
Catalog of the Works of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: A New Project
We have received the following from Carola Finkel: The Roman composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525–1594), through his musical output, left a far-reaching mark on church music, music theory, and compositional practice. His influence on music history started during his lifetime and can still be felt today. Although scholarly treatment...
2 February 2017 – In the news
A New Woman Composer is Born
We received the following from Nina Eichholz. It originally appeared on the website Hofmusik in Dresden and is published with kind permission. In the course of the project Court Church and Royal Private Music Collection at the SLUB Dresden, the anonymous aria “Per costume o mio bel Nume” (D-Dl Mus.1-F-49,12-12;...
30 January 2017 – Rediscovered
A Previously Unknown Lute Tablature
We have received the following from Dieter Kirsch: It doesn’t happen too often nowadays for objects to turn up in public collections that have so far managed to elude researchers. Such a case will be described below. Among the music manuscripts housed at the Stadtbibliothek Braunschweig (D-BSstb), which are currently...
27 January 2017 – Rediscovered
Muscat Workshops in Austria
We have received the following from our colleagues in IAML Austria: IAML Austria successfully held two Muscat workshops recently. On January 12, 2017, a Muscat workshop was held at the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, led by Dr. Eva Neumayr (RISM Salzburg). The workshop enjoyed active participation from its seven attendees. This...
26 January 2017 – Events
Major Acquisition in Belgium: Fonds Toots Thielemans
We received the following from RISM Belgium: The Music Division of the Royal Library of Belgium acquired a new important collection in December 2016: the Fonds Toots Thielemans, named after the Belgian musician who passed away on 22 August 2016 at the age of 94. The collection consists of hundreds...
24 January 2017 – Library collections
The Thematic Catalogue of the Music Collection in the Premonstratensian Monastery in Želiv
We have received the following publication announcement from Eliška Šedivá (RISM Czech Republic): Pavla Semerádová and Eliška Šedivá. Catalogus collectionis operum artis musicae de Monasterii Siloensis. Catalogus artis musicae in Bohemia et Moravia cultae. Artis musicae antiquioris catalogorum 9/1-2. Prague: Národní knihovna České republiky, 2016. 2 vols. 660p. ISBN 978-80-7050-664-6....
23 January 2017 – New publications
Karl Friedrich Abel Manuscripts Found in Poland
We have received the following from Sonia Wronkowska of RISM Poland: Two new sources for works by Karl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787) have recently been found by Sonia Wronkowska in Poland, in the library of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (PL-Pu), originating from the Maltzan family palace in Milicz (formerly...
19 January 2017 – Rediscovered
A Contribution to the History of Military Music in the Kingdom of Hanover
A unique collection of music manuscripts in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek (Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek), Hanover The well over 1,000 handwritten scores of the first and last Royal Hanover Army Music Director Johann Viktor Gerold (1808-1876) form one of the most extensive collections of nineteenth-century military music. In a circuitous fashion...
16 January 2017 – Library collections
Looking Back on 2016
The year 2016 was a big year for us: we released our long-awaited and well-received cataloging program Muscat, we invited thirteen colleagues to speak on the state of source research in Central and South America at the conference Documenting Musical Sources in Latin America, and we published another volume in...
12 January 2017 – New at RISM
Musical Anniversaries in 2017
Happy New Year! We start the year by looking ahead and getting ready to celebrate people in the RISM database who will have a major birthday this year or to remember those who died. We would like to begin 2017 with an overview of these people: they are not only...
10 January 2017 – Musical anniversaries
