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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
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
