News archive
Sensational new source: A previously unknown Carnival song by Beethoven!
The following extremely important announcement has reached us from Henle Verlag and is published here with kind permission: The new series PianoPlus is an ideal entry and re-access to the world of classical music, and likewise for all carnival enthusiasts and carnival grouches, who would like to make music with...
16 February 2015 – Rediscovered
Tomorrow is Valentine's Day
February 14 – Valentine’s Day – is the day of love in many countries. Today we’re featuring a small selection of Romeo and Juliet compositions from our online catalog for all you romantics out there (and also non-romantics). The results list shows almost 400 entries. Among these are Vincenzo Bellini’s...
13 February 2015 – In the news
‘Crown jewels’ of English lute music go online
The following news has reached us from the University of Cambridge (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0): Handwritten copies of scores by composers of English lute music have been digitised in a programme to make a precious legacy available to professional and amateur musicians around the world. Cambridge Digital Library is launching a...
10 February 2015 – Electronic resources
“Catalog of the Music of the Diocese of Würzburg” published
From RISM Germany we bring you the following: At the end of 2014, Dieter Kirsch, former director and professor at the Hochschule für Musikin Würzburg, and who was most recently awarded an honorary doctorate from the same institution, has published the monumental Katalog der Musikalien der Diözese Würzburg (Catalog of...
5 February 2015 – New publications
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
