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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
Bachfest and Sanssouci – Leipzig and Potsdam
Leipzig’s first Bach Festival took place in 1908. Bachfest has been held annually there since 1999, with a different theme each year. This year, from June 10 to 19, the theme is Secrets of Harmony (program in PDF). Over 100 events will take place at more than 30 venues. New...
9 June 2016 – Events
The Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music
The Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music (WLSCM) is a project sponsored by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. It is a free collection of peer-reviewed, scholarly publications of seventeenth-century compositions that are not commercially available in print and have not been posted online. A separate series, Monuments of Seventeenth-Century Music, is...
6 June 2016 – Electronic resources
Christoph Wolff honored with Medal Pour le Mérite
Last Sunday, May 29, 2016, RISM honorary president Christoph Wolff was honored with the medal Pour le Mérit für Wissenschaften und Künste, a civilian honor. In the presence of German President Joachim Gauck, the Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and the German musicologist Christoph Wolff received their medals at a ceremony...
2 June 2016 – In the news
Help RISM Link to Digitized Music
This post was updated in 2021. The RISM online catalog offers over 18,000 links to digitized music: scores, parts, and printed editions from all around the world. This ease of access to the sources is one of the most popular features of the catalog. Current RISM contributors add links to...
30 May 2016 – RISM online catalog
New publication about Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen, a composer of two nations
Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann and Christiane Wiesenfeldt, eds, Der Komponist Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen (1761-1817): Gattungen, Werke, Kontexte. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2015. ISBN 978-3-412-22275-8 Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen was mainly active in Denmark even though he was born in Lübeck to a family that included organists at St. Mary’s Church. In 1785...
27 May 2016 – New publications
Digitized Irish Music Project
The following was originally published by the Research Foundation for Music in Ireland and is reprinted here with kind permission: The library of the DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama has a specialised collection of the music composed in Ireland, about Ireland and by Irish composers which has developed through...
23 May 2016 – Electronic resources
Results of the RISM User Survey Published
We are pleased to present the results of the RISM catalog survey, available on the RISM Survey page: The RISM Online User Survey: Report (May 2016; also available in German) The survey was conducted from October 30, 2014 until February 28, 2015. We received a total of 551 responses from...
17 May 2016 – New publications
Pentecost and Music
For many, “Pentecost” (Whitsun) and “music” call to mind the striking setting of the Pentecost hymn Veni Creator Spiritus in Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. A look in the RISM database shows the versatile musical forms the text has taken. The 1,276 RISM records range from Heinrich Finck (ca. 1444-1527), who...
12 May 2016 – Events
