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Frederick the Great
Music at the court of Frederick the Great has fascinated scholars for decades and a flury of activity arose when “Old Fritz” celebrated his tercentenary in 2012, with books, concerts, and conferences around the world. Work from our colleagues at RISM Germany even turned up an autograph manuscript by the...
8 April 2015 – RISM A-Z
Composers identified in Dresden's royal music collections
This article is by Nina Eichholz (SLUB Dresden) and originally appeared on the Hofmusik in Dresden(Dresden Court Music) project website. It is reprinted here with kind permission. In the DFG project Hofkirche und Königliche Privat-Musikaliensammlung (Dresden Court Church and Royal Private Music Sheet Collection), which has been underway for the...
2 April 2015 – Library collections
New CD Box Set: The RISM Complete Incipits Edition
Many people know that one of the things that makes RISM unique is that we include music incipits in our records. How many times have you thought to yourself, “If only I could listen to these music incipits all day!” Now you can! Announcing a new CD box set, the...
1 April 2015 – New at RISM
Help solve a 90-year-old musical mystery
A competition has been set up by the Italian music monthly Musica to find works by the almost unknown Italian-Argentinian composer Rodolfo Zanni (1901-1927). After his mysterious death, his works completely disappeared. He composed over 80 works: symphonies, overtures, ballets, sonatas, and two operas. Can you find any? A worldwide...
30 March 2015 – In the news
How can you link to RISM searches?
Many smaller institutions, including libraries, archives, private collectors, etc. do not maintain an online catalog of their collections but want to present the RISM records for their items on their own websites. To facilitate this, the Bavarian State Library in Munich offers a query interface based on different parameters. For...
26 March 2015 – RISM online catalog
Wie kann man RISM Nachweise einbinden?
Viele kleinere Institutionen wie Bibliotheken, Archive, Privatbesitzer etc. verfügen nicht über einen eigenen Online-Katalog ihrer Bestände, wollen aber die Einträge ihrer Bestände bei RISM auf der ihrer Website präsentieren. Dazu bietet die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München, eine Query-Schnittstelle an, die zuletzt so erweitert wurde, dass nach RISM Bibliothekssigeln gefragt werden kann....
26 March 2015 – New at RISM
Opera premieres from Vienna to Paris
Two rarely-heard operas are enjoying premieres now - and there are interesting sources for both in RISM. Performances of Gli uccellatori (The Birdcatchers) by Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729-1774) started yesterday at the Theater an der Wien. There are three sources for the overture in the RISM online catalog, two in...
23 March 2015 – Events
Bach 330: The Brandenburg Concerto Manuscript at the Library of Congress
It’s Johann Sebastian Bach’s 330th birthday on Saturday! Please enjoy this article about a Bach manuscript at the Library of Congress, written by Daniel Boomhower (who is also a member of RISM’s Coordinating Committee). It originally appeared on the library’s In the Muse blog. In May, 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach...
19 March 2015 – Musical anniversaries
Autograph manuscript by Melchior Hoffmann discovered
The following has reached us from Julia Neumann, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: An autograph manuscript by Bach contemporary Melchior Hoffmann has recently been identified at the Berlin State Library as a result of work being carried out by KoFIM (Music Research and Information Competence Centre), a DFG project. This anonymous manuscript,...
16 March 2015 – Rediscovered
From the First [最初] to the Best [最高]: Ewha Music Research Institute
The following is by Hyun Kyung Chae of RISM Korea and was originally published in the newsletter Ewha’s Research Power for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (February 2015). It is reprinted here with kind permission. The Ewha Music Research Institute (EMRI) is consistently gaining recognition as a hub for the...
12 March 2015 – In the news
