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Giacomo Insanguine (1728-1795)
“Maestro delle pezze” (Maestro of patchwork) is the not-so-flattering judgment delivered by Giovanni Paisiello about the tendency of Giacomo Insanguine (1728-1795) to (unadeptly) “patch up” the works of other composers by inserting his own compositions. And even though Paisiello’s razor-sharp tongue was well known, his verdict about Insanguine went unchallenged...
17 March 2016 – RISM A-Z
Magdeburg in Georg Philipp Telemann's Footsteps
These days, illustrious performers are expected once again in Magdeburg. The 23rd Magdeburg Telemann Festival focuses this year on Telemann and the concert, spotlighting works that Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) himself once presented as a concert promoter. Beginning last Friday and continuing until March 20, there are numerous events taking...
14 March 2016 – Events
"From Bologna to Beromünster" – Maurizio Cazzati: Messa e Salmi, op. 36
We have received the following from Cédric Güggi of RISM Switzerland: The music library of Beromünster Abbey (CH-BM) houses the Bonus Ordo Musicus, a handwritten inventory from 1696 which lists a music collection from the time that is largely lost today. In a separate project, Historical Music Inventories 1500-1800, RISM...
10 March 2016 – RISM Digital Center
José Antonio Gómez y Olguín (1805-1876) y su Catálogo musical
John G. Lazos, who has cataloged hundreds of manuscripts in Mexico for RISM, has published a catalog of composer José Antonio Gómez y Olguín’s works in Mexican archives: John G. Lazos. José Antonio Gómez y Olguín (1805-1876) y su Catálogo musical: Un acercamiento a la práctica musical del México decimonónico....
7 March 2016 – New publications
The 2015 Annual Report
The past year was an exciting one for RISM, as the recently published annual report for 2015 shows. Thanks to the hard work from RISM contributors and partners around the world, we hit the 1,000,000th record in the RISM database and are looking ahead to the next milestone. Here are...
3 March 2016 – New publications
The dating game
We bring you a post today by our colleagues at the MusiCB3 Blog of Cambridge University (CC-BY): What? Has MusiCB3 gone mad? TWO Valentine’s Day posts this year? Actually no. This is about a much more important topic – dating printed music. Now, I know this may not sound wildly...
29 February 2016 – Library collections
18th-Century Music Manuscript "Libro Sesto" Tells of Colonial History in Chile
The Biblioteca Nacional de Chile in Santiago (RCH-Sbnc) is home to a rare music manuscript from ca. 1790, which it has had in its possession since January 2014. It was a gift from the descendants of the Chilean musicologist Guillermo Marchant Espinoza (1950-2009), who rescued it from the rubble during...
25 February 2016 – In the news
Announcing the Bohemian Watermark Database
The following has reached us from Eliška Šedivá (National Library, Prague): The Music Department of the National Library of the Czech Republic presents the Bohemian Watermark Database, which continuously grows during the course of cataloguing and reviewing the musical sources registered in the Union Music Catalogue of the NLCR by...
22 February 2016 – Electronic resources
Conference: The Music Repertoire of the Society of Jesus in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1565–1773)
From February 5 to 6, 2016, Guido Kraus from the RISM Central Office attended an international musicological conference at the University of Warsaw Library entitled “The Music Repertoire of the Society of Jesusin the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1565–1773).Sources – Editing – Cataloguing.” The conference was hosted by the Institute of Musicology...
19 February 2016 – Events
RISM Workshop and Seminar in Warsaw (February 3-4, 2016)
The following has reached us from Sonia Wronkowska of RISM Poland: The workshop “Introduction to Kallisto” and a RISM seminar took place at the beginning of February in Warsaw, and was organised by the Polish RISM Centre (Music Department) and the Librarian Education Department of the National Library of Poland....
17 February 2016 – Events
