News archive
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
Cataloging and Digitizing the Dom-Musikverein and Mozarteum Collection in Salzburg (to 1881)
The following announcement has reached us from our RISM colleagues in Austria: The International Mozarteum Foundation has started a new project in cooperation with the Archdioceses Archive in Salzburg. The goal is to catalog the valuable historical collection of the Dom-Musikverein und Mozarteum (Society for Music at the Cathedral and...
9 March 2015 – Library collections
The 2014 Annual Report
The annual report for 2014 has been posted to the RISM website. Did you know that thanks to the hard work of our colleagues–in over 35 countries around the world–there are over 880,000 records in the online database? Other highlights from 2014: The CD-ROM data for series A/I (Einzeldrucke vor...
5 March 2015 – New publications
New research on copyists and watermarks
Colloquium: Researching Copyists and Watermarks in the Digital Age: Between Academic Specialization and Catalog Enrichment Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 6-8 October 2014 The study of copyists and watermarks is deeply rooted in the German tradition of researching historical musical sources. Both branches of research are descended from the practice of making...
2 March 2015 – Events
RISM at the MLA Conference - live stream
The 84th Annual Meeting of the Music Library Association will take place on February 25-28, 2015, in Denver, Colorado. Sarah Adams of the US RISM office will be participating in a plenary session entitled “Digital Musicology: the role of music library collections.” She will report on new developments in RISM....
26 February 2015 – Events
Elizaveta, Elisabeth, and Elizabeth
Today, our series RISM from A–Z takes us on a journey that spans three centuries as we visit the lives of an Elizaveta, Elisabeth, and Elizabeth. The first is Elizaveta Alexievna (1779-1826), the Empress of Russia. She was born Princess Louise of Baden (Germany) and married Alexander I of Russia....
23 February 2015 – RISM A-Z
Funding Renewed for KoFIM Berlin Project
The following announcement has come to us from Martina Rebmann (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin): With generous support from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the KoFIM Berlin project (Kompetenzzentrum Forschung und Information Musik/Center of Excellence for Research and Information in Music) will continue at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin for another three years....
19 February 2015 – Library collections
