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The Spitzeders, A Musical Family
If you search for “Spitzeder” online, you’ll first stumble upon a lot of websites related to the actress Adele Spitzeder (1832-1895; image left). She has a musical tie-in (later in life she performed popular songs as the singer Adele Vio), but today she is more infamous than famous for founding...
23 February 2017 – New at RISM
Length of RISM Catalog Sessions Increased
We are pleased to announce that the length of sessions for the RISM online catalog has been increased: now your session will expire after 25 minutes of inactivity. This is an improvement from the previous situation, where we heard from some users that sessions were expiring after just a few...
20 February 2017 – RISM online catalog
Hélène-Antoinette-Marie de Montgeroult (1764-1836)
Our series RISM A–Z brings us to the letter M. The French composer and pianist Hélène de Montgeroult (1764 Lyon – 1836 Florence) was a pupil of Jan Ladislav Dussek and Muzio Clementi. She did not perform publicly as a pianist but was active in salons. In 1784, Hélène de...
16 February 2017 – RISM A-Z
RISM at the MLA Conference in Orlando, Florida
The annual Music Library Association conference (US branch of IAML) will be held from 22-26 February 2017 in sunny Orlando, Florida. This conference will be the first Pan American regional IAML meeting and many of our colleagues from the entire Latin American region will be in attendance. The timing of...
13 February 2017 – Events
The Rokycany Music Collection. A Catalogue of Franco-Netherlandish Sacred Works Preserved in the Oldest Layer of the Repertoire
We have received the following announcement from Katerina Mayrova from the National Museum in Prague (CZ-Pnm): Kateřina Maýrová, Stephanie P. Schlagel, Hana Hrachová. Rokycanská hudební sbírka. Katalog franko-nizozemských duchovních skladeb dochovaných v nejstarší vrstvě repertoáru - The Rokycany Music Collection. A Catalogue of Franco-Netherlandish Sacred Works Preserved in the Oldest...
9 February 2017 – New publications
Cantum Pulcriorem Invenire
The RISM online catalog has only a few pieces that dip into the Medieval period, but some of our users might be interested in the Cantum Pulcriorem Invenire (CPI-I) database of 12th- and 13th-century conductus, from the University of Southampton. CPI-I focuses on the poetry of this kind of song....
6 February 2017 – Electronic resources
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
