News archive
For the New Year, according to old custom
Approaching the end of the year, it seems fitting to call your attention to a musical new year’s greeting from over two centuries ago. The precious collection of the Berlin Sing-Akademie (D-Bsa), which had gone missing during World War II, was rediscovered in 1999 by Christoph Wolff (later also president...
21 December 2023 – Events
More Italian Manuscripts Published from the ICCU Dataset
As early as September 2021 we published source descriptions RISM had taken over from the Italian union catalog maintained by ICCU. For details, see our report “ICCU and RISM: An Immense Number of Records”. This time we are happy to report on the publication of more than 16,000 records representing...
14 December 2023 – New at RISM
Autumn 2023 Update to RISM Online
We are pleased to announce a significant new update to the RISM Online service, bringing several useful and oft-requested features to our users. Perhaps the biggest change is that our users will now see results from the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music integrated in their search results. This enhances...
7 December 2023 – RISM Digital Center
In memoriam Gertraut Haberkamp (29 January 1937 – 5 November 2023)
On the same day as Dr. Harald Heckmann, long-time president of RISM, Dr. Gertraut Haberkamp, who stood for RISM’s work like few others and was also a leading authority on the sources of the Viennese Classics, passed away in Munich. Gertraut Haberkamp was born in Bochum, the middle of five...
30 November 2023 – In memoriam
The Cantata of the Last Things of Man by Ladislav Vycpálek
The following guest post is by Pavel Kordík (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM), National Library Prague): Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of its Music Department (1923–2023), the National Library of the Czech Republic exhibits a printed edition of an important work by its founder, composer Ladislav Vycpálek...
23 November 2023 – Library collections
In Memoriam Harald Heckmann (6 December 1924 – 5 November 2023)
In Harald Heckmann, the world of music archivists and documenters has lost one of its most distinguished personalities. Those of us who had the privilege of working with him have also lost a wise mentor and fatherly friend. Born the son of an art historian and teacher in Dortmund, he...
16 November 2023 – In memoriam
Harald Heckmann (1924-2023)
The team and the Board of the RISM Editorial Center mourn the loss of their honorary president Dr. Harald Heckmann. He passed away on 5 November 2023, at the age of 98. An obituary will be published here shortly.
8 November 2023 – In memoriam
Between Italian and Spanish: Musics, Mutual Influences and Shared Spaces
Capdepón Verdú, Paulino; González Marín, Luis Antonio (coordinadores), Entre lo italiano y lo español: músicas, influencias mutuas y espacios compartidos (siglos XVI-XX). Tiran lo blanch, Colección Euterpe música, 1a ed., Valencia (2021), España, 546 pp. In assessing this volume, it is worth recalling the long and prolific tradition of Spanish...
2 November 2023 – New publications
Annual Meeting of IAML Germany in Lübeck
The annual meeting of IAML’s German national branch was held in Lübeck, Germany, on 19-22 September 2023. The University of Music Lübeck and the Library of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck served as hosts, and the event was organized in an exemplary fashion by Torsten Senkbeil, Martin Blank, and Arndt...
26 October 2023 – Events
Anniversary Symposium of RISM Germany
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of RISM’s German working group, a symposium will be held on November 21 and 22 at the Bavarian State Library in Munich. The event bears the title “Musical Sources of the 19th Century in Germany: Challenges and Opportunities” and offers...
19 October 2023 – Events
