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The Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth
The Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth opens today. But apart from the famous Green Hill, the Bavarian town is also home to the Margravial Opera House, one of the largest Baroque theaters in Europe. It is currently being restored (in a project that is expected to last until 2018), but...
25 July 2016 – Events
RISM at IAML, Part 1: Muscat – (almost) ready to go
For RISM insiders, Muscat will be the must-have item this fall! Our new cataloging program was a topic of discussion at the recent IAML congress in Rome. A group of developers has been at work for about three years to create a new cataloging program called Muscat, which will replace...
21 July 2016 – New at RISM
Newly Cataloged Music from Chile
A new article in the current issue of Fontes Artis Musicae calls attention to recently cataloged music collections in Chile: Laura Fahrenkrog and Fernanda Vera, “Recently Catalogued Music Archives and Fonds in Santiago, Chile: A Contribution to the Dissemination of Written Musical Heritage of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.” Fontes...
18 July 2016 – New publications
Eugène Ysaÿe's Manuscripts
Belgian composer and violin virtuoso Eugène Ysaÿe (1858- 1931) was born 158 years ago this Saturday. Those looking for manuscript sources for Ysaÿe should look no further than the Royal Library of Belgium (B-Br). The Fonds Eugène Ysaÿe contains 161 autograph manuscripts and 1,083 printed scores (by Ysaÿe as well...
14 July 2016 – Musical anniversaries
Margarethe Susanna Kayser: "The Kayserin"
To clear up any confusion right off the bat: No, Margarethe Susanna Kayser was not the wife of the composer Reinhard Keiser, even if the usual spelling variations from the time (Keiser, Keyser, Kaiser, and Kayser) lead one to suspect as much. Born in 1690 as the daughter of the...
6 July 2016 – RISM A-Z
Women and music-making during the Bourbon Restoration
Emerson Morgan from the RISM US working group at Harvard University has written this article about a score newly cataloged for RISM, La naissance du sauveur (RISM ID no. 900022067). This manuscript of a unique Christmas cantata, authored by a woman composer and dedicated to a woman patron, offers a...
30 June 2016 – Library collections
Joseph Jackson (1769-1808)
Our occasional series RISM A–Z brings us to the letter J. Let’s turn our eyes to the island of Jamaica and the composer and missionary Joseph Jackson (1769-1808). Joseph Jackson is one of the very few people in the RISM online catalog who has connections with Jamaica. The son of...
27 June 2016 – RISM A-Z
"Amandus Ivanschiz: His Life and Music" by Maciej Jochymczyk
Dr. Maciej Jochymczyk, instructor at the Musicology Institute of Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland), has recently published his second book about composer Amandus Ivanschiz (1727-1758), which follows Muzyka religijna u progu klasycyzmu. Amandus Ivanschiz OSPPE (1727-1758) (Lublin: Wydawnictwo Polihymnia, 2014). Amandus Ivanschiz: His Life and Music. With a Thematic Catalog of...
23 June 2016 – New publications
An exciting collection
The following article has reached us from Gottfried Heinz-Kronberger of RISM Germany: The music collection from Spitz an der Donau in Austria is preserved in the archives of the Benedictine Abbey Niederaltaich (D-NATk) in southeast Germany. This arrangement has a historical reason. Niederaltaich Abbey, which was founded in 741, stretched...
20 June 2016 – Rediscovered
RISM at the IAML Congress
All roads lead to Rome - will we see you there? RISM is looking forward to the annual conference of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres from 3 to 8 July 2016. As in years past, RISM will be sponsoring sessions. In addition, several of our...
13 June 2016 – Events
