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Call for Papers: Musical Sources of the 19th Century in Germany: Challenges and Opportunities
In celebration of the 70-year anniversary of the establishment of the German RISM working group, on 21 November 2023 a single-day symposium will be held in the Bavarian State Library in Munich. We are pleased to reprint here the full Call for Proposals: The first German working group of RISM...
18 January 2023 – Events
Musical Anniversaries in 2023
Happy New Year! As in past years, we are using the beginning of the year to look at significant anniversaries of birth or death for people found in RISM. We are listing not only our RISM composers, but also librettists, performers, dedicatees, or other people who are connected to a...
9 January 2023 – Musical anniversaries
Happy Holidays 2022!
The RISM Editorial Center wishes you all the best for a festive holiday season, fittingly with a historical document: an early (1863) edition of “Silent Night,” John Freeman Young’s English translation of Joseph Mohr’s “Stille Nacht” as set to music by Franz Xaver Gruber. We wish you many a silent...
21 December 2022 – Events
Werckmeister—Oranienburg or Berlin?
If you were at the RISM Day which took place alongside this year’s IAML Congress in Prague, you might remember that there are entries for printed editions in RISM’s A/I series that should ideally be split into separate ones. One example is when a library indicates that it owns “several...
14 December 2022 – New at RISM
Musical Sources on Postage Stamps
Photocopies, microfilms, facsimiles, and digital scans: There are many ways to get your hands on copies of original sources for your desk at home. But when we think of reproductions of musical works, postage stamps don’t always come to mind. Let’s take a look at two German examples. The German...
8 December 2022 – New at RISM
New Volume Published in RISM Series B: RISM B/XVIII/1
RISM’s series B covers specific categories of repertory. The newest volume has just been published: RISM B/XVIII/1. Christian Meyer: Les sources manuscrites des séquences et proses notées. IXe-XVIe siècles, vol. 1 France, Catalogue descriptif, Munich: G. Henle Verlag, 2022, 751 p., ISBN 978-3-87328-159-2, ISMN 979-0-2018-2532-8 This volume treats manuscript sources...
28 November 2022 – New publications
International Conference Celebrating 70 Years of RISM
The following is by Pia Shekhter (President of IAML, the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres) and originally appeared on the IAML website. It is reprinted here with kind permission. An international conference was held 7-9 October 2022 acknowledging the 70th anniversary of RISM (Répertoire International des...
21 November 2022 – Events
Franz Liszt at the Library of Congress
We have received this announcement of the new Franz Liszt portal from Susan Clermont (Music Division, Library of Congress): The Music Division is a vital resource for primary source material related to the life and work of Franz Liszt (1811-1886). From the earliest days of the Music Division, 1st editions...
17 November 2022 – Library collections
RISM at the Academies' Day in Leipzig
This year’s Academies’ Day of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities took place in Leipzig on 6 October 2022. The theme of the day was Music and Society. Different research projects from the eight member academies were presented alongside a packed accompanying program. The close proximity...
14 November 2022 – Events
Fontes Special Issue: In Celebration of RISM’s Seventieth Anniversary
The latest issue of the journal Fontes artis musicae is a special issue entitled In Celebration of RISM’s Seventieth Anniversary. Guest editor Nicole Schwindt (Chair, RISM Working Group, Germany) describes the ground that RISM has covered in the seven decades since the project’s founding, writing in the issue’s preface that...
10 November 2022 – New publications
