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Antonio Cesti's Orontea
Yesterday, February 1, the Oper Frankfurt celebrated the premiere of Antonio Cesti’s opera Orontea. Almost all of the over 100 records in the RISM database by Antonio Cesti are for cantatas or individual opera arias with continuo accompaniment—including four arias from Orontea. Of the eleven operas by Cesti known today,...
2 February 2015 – In the news
Welcome to the new RISM office
We have spent this week settling into our new office. We’re now on the Goethe Universität Frankfurt campus. While we unpack our boxes and sort out some details, please enjoy these photos that we took before, during, and after the move. More are available on our Facebook page (no Facebook...
28 January 2015 – New at RISM
We're moving!
Goodbye, Sophienstraße! We’re moving! After 26 years of being in our office at Sophienstraße 26, we moving…about half a mile away to a building on the Goethe Universität Frankfurt campus. As of Monday, January 26, 2015, our new mailing address will be: RISM Zentralredaktion Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Campus Bockenheim Senckenberganlage...
21 January 2015 – New at RISM
New online resource with the Map of Musical Heritage in Spain
The following has reached us from Jon Bagüés, ERESBIL-Basque Archives of Music: The Music and Dance Documentation Center of the Ministry of Culture of Spain, with the help of AEDOM, the Spanish Branch of IAML (Project AMA) and RISM-Spain, presented last November a map of 350 Spanish public institutions (archives,...
19 January 2015 – Electronic resources
Knowing what exists: Union of German Academies renews support for RISM Germany
This article is by our RISM Germany colleague Karl Wilhelm Geck and has been republished from BIS: Das Magazin der Bibliotheken in Sachsen 7:3 (2014), 179 (CC-BY SA): Where the documentation of music manuscripts is concerned, the benchmark is the online union catalog http://opac.rism.info. Since its release in 2010, it...
15 January 2015 – In the news
'Earliest' polyphonic music discovered in British Library
The following entry is by Nicolas Bell and originally appeared on the British Library Music Blog. It is reprinted here with kind permission. The British Library Music Blog has been quiet for a while, but plenty has been going on in the meantime. See the BBC News website for a...
12 January 2015 – Library collections
Looking back at 2014
Before we get too far into 2015, let’s take a look back at 2014 and allow us to share some stories from the past year. The ten most popular stories on our website were (according to our website statistics): New Version of the RISM Online Catalog Missing Works by Italian...
8 January 2015 – New at RISM
New Year's Greetings and Composer Anniversaries
Happy New Year! We are looking forward to celebrating the anniversaries of the following musicians and other people that you can find in the RISM online catalog. We’ve listed their names, dates, and function in the catalog: http://opac.rism.info/ We will start with Ambrosius, our oldest birthday boy… c= circa a=...
6 January 2015 – Musical anniversaries
Christmas greetings
The RISM Central Office wishes you and your family all the best for a festive holiday season and a happy New Year. We look forward to working with you again in 2015. Photo credit: NYPL Digital Gallery
19 December 2014 – Events
Weihnachtsgrüße
Die RISM Zentralredaktion wünscht Ihnen und Ihrer Familie eine schöne Weihnachtszeit und ein gutes Neues Jahr. Wir freuen uns auf die weitere Zusammenarbeit in 2015. Bildnachweis: NYPL Digital Gallery
19 December 2014 – New at RISM
