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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
Happy Holidays 2016!
The RISM Central Office wishes you and your family all the best for a festive holiday season and a happy New Year. We are looking forward to working with you in the coming year! Image: Historische Bildpostkarten - Universität Osnabrück - Sammlung Prof. Dr. Sabine Giesbrecht, via Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek...
22 December 2016 – Events
Weihnachtsgrüße 2016!
Die RISM Zentralredaktion wünscht Ihnen und Ihrer Familie ein frohes Weihnachtsfest und ein gutes Neues Jahr. Wir freuen uns auf die weitere Zusammenarbeit im kommenden Jahr! Abbildung: Historische Bildpostkarten - Universität Osnabrück - Sammlung Prof. Dr. Sabine Giesbrecht, via Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
22 December 2016 – New at RISM
Christian Ignatius Latrobe (February 12, 1758 – May 6, 1836)
This is our last entry in our series RISM A–Z for the year, and with this entry we’ve come nearly halfway through the alphabet. Christian Ignatius Latrobe was born in the Moravian settlement in Fulneck, England and traveled to Niesky in Saxony in 1771 to attend the Moravian school there....
15 December 2016 – RISM A-Z
Searching by Instrumentation in RISM
With the release of Muscat, our new program for cataloging sources, we took the opportunity to clarify our guidelines for our RISM contributors. One of the results of this is a new, more complete list of RISM instrument abbreviations. We thought we’d also share this improved list with you–the users...
12 December 2016 – RISM online catalog
New RISM Brochure in Spanish Now Available
RISM is pleased to announce that the brochure “RISM: An Overview” is now available in an English-Spanish version entitled “RISM: Presentación general.” It can be downloaded from the RISM website. If you want professionally printed copies of the brochure, also at no charge, please contact us: contact@rism.info. Let us know...
8 December 2016 – New publications
Mozart Autographs Online
Today we’re marking the 225th anniversary of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and at RISM we have our own way to celebrate the composer. Our online catalog now has around 340 autograph manuscripts, of which almost 50 can be freely viewed online. The catalog can deliver the famous...
5 December 2016 – Musical anniversaries
