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Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) at the British Library
Jacques Offenbach died 135 years ago today. To mark the occasion we’re bringing you this post by Susan Halstead, which originally appeared on the British Library’s European Studies Blog (CC-BY). The RISM database has 125 works relating to Offenbach. A dish fit for the gods: 150 years of Offenbach’s ‘La...
5 October 2015 – Musical anniversaries
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) an der British Library
Heute vor 135 Jahren starb Jacques Offenbach. Aus diesem Anlass übernehmen wir einen Beitrag von Susan Halstead, der erstmals im British Library’s European Studies Blog (CC-BY) veröffentlicht wurde. Der RISM Online-Katalog verzeichnet 125 Werke zu Offenbach. Ein passendes Gericht für die Götter: 150 Jahre ‘La belle Hélène’ von Offenbach Als...
5 October 2015 – Library collections
Bartók Complete Critical Edition launched
This news originally appeared on the website of the G. Henle Verlag (whose CEO, Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, is also the RISM president) and are reprinting it with kind permission. RISM has just a handful of works by Bartók in the RISM database. 26 September 2015 was the 70th anniversary of Béla...
1 October 2015 – New publications
Premieres of rediscovered Heinrich Schütz works
This post has reached us from Helmut Lauterwasser (RISM Germany): It is hard to believe that there are still new works by Heinrich Schütz that are awaiting discovery. And indeed, on 1 October 2015 two small Christmas pieces by the Saxon court Kapellmeister will be heard for the first time...
28 September 2015 – Events
The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (EMIR)
New on our bookshelves is: Harry White and Barra Boydell, eds. The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2013. ISBN: 9781906359782 This is a long-awaited two-volume set that covers all aspects of Irish music. According to the publisher’s website, EMIR is “the first comprehensive attempt to...
24 September 2015 – New publications
RISM at the AIBM Conference in Stuttgart
The AIBM annual conference (German branch of IAML) is right around the corner: from September 22 to 25, around 160 participants will come together from Germany and neighboring German-speaking countries to discuss the current situation of music libraries and their future. Sessions of interest to public as well as academic...
21 September 2015 – Events
Poetry of the Seventeenth Century in Music
This post is by Clotilde Angleys (Département de la Musique) and originally appeared on the Gallica blog of the Bibliotheque national de France. It is reproduced here in accordance with their Creative Commons policy. The 37 Livres d’airs de différents auteurs issued by the music publishers Robert and Christophe Ballard...
17 September 2015 – Library collections
RISM and the "R"s in Mexico
The Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical (CENIDIM) and the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Mexico have organized an international meeting for music and performing arts, the Encuentro Internacional de Investigación y Documentación de la Música y las Artes Escénicas, from 17 to 19 September 2015. Participants will...
14 September 2015 – Events
30 Johann Bachs, or searching for "unclear" composers
Back in March we showed you in this space how to link to RISM searches in the online catalog. In most cases, this works without a hitch - you can even use pseudonyms or other forms of the name, as long as they are entered as variants in RISM. Here’s...
10 September 2015 – RISM online catalog
Digitized Opera Scores at the German Historical Institute in Rome
We have received this report from Roland Pfeiffer: Digitization of around 180 opera scores from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has recently been completed as part of one of the multi-year research projects financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and led by Dr. Roland Pfeiffer at the Department...
7 September 2015 – Library collections
