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Erwin und Elmire im Bestand des Deutschen Nationaltheaters Weimar. Zum 275. Geburtstag von Anna Amalia, Herzogin von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach

Der nachfolgende Artikel wurde von unserer Kollegin Undine Wagner (RISM Arbeitsgruppe Deutschland, Thüringischen Landesmusikarchiv) geschrieben. Der Weimarer Musenhof und Anna Amalias sog. Tafelrunden, zu denen u. a. Goethe, Wieland und Herder gehörten, wurden zu bekannten „Schlagwörtern“ der Weimarer Kulturgeschichte. Anna Amalia, geb. am 24. Oktober 1739 in Wolfenbüttel (als Prinzessin...

24 October 2014 – Library collections

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RISM at the AIBM Conference

IAML Germany held its annual meeting in beautiful Nuremberg last month. Three members of the RISM Central Office were in attendance. Topics included: • Data transfers of RISM data • Social Media • RDA • Cultural Program RISM’s own Gottfried Heinz-Kronberger from RISM Germany in Munich gave a presentation about...

20 October 2014 – Events

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Tudor Treasures

The following entry is by Margaret Jones and originally appeared on the MusiCB3 Blog. It is reprinted here with kind permission of Cambridge University Libraries. I was asked to look out some of the Music Department’s “Tudor treasures” to complement items displayed by other departments. An early item of printed...

16 October 2014 – Library collections

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Vjera Katalinić: The Sorkočevićes, Aristocratic Musicians from Dubrovnik

As we mark the 280th anniversary of the birth of Croatian composer Luka Sorgo (1734-1789), Vjera Katalinić, the director of RISM Croatia, has published a new book about this family of musicians: Vjera Katalinić: Sorkočevići, dubrovački plemići i diplomati (The Sorkočevićes, Aristocratic Musicians from Dubrovnik). Zagreb: Muzički informativni centar, 2014....

13 October 2014 – New publications

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A Donizetti Discovery

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’s Stefan Zweig Collection of musical, literary and historical autograph manuscripts includes many well-known treasures, but there are other pieces which have proved more difficult...

9 October 2014 – Rediscovered

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New (and first) siglum for Monaco

At the beginning of June 2014, the first RISM library siglum for the Principality of Monaco was created: MC-MCpgil, for the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco-Ville. The heart of the collection is made up of songs of Irish-American origin and Irish books. Many of the music scores were collected...

6 October 2014 – New at RISM

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Who was František Ignác Tůma (1704-1774)?

Today marks the 310th birthday of František Ignác Tůma. But who is celebrating? Probably nobody, because only a few people today have heard of him. A stele with organ pipes commemorates the Czech composer at his birthplace Adlerkosteletz (today Kostelec nad Orlicí). Tůma received his musical education in Prague and...

2 October 2014 – Musical anniversaries

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Robert Eitner

We are pleased to present the following article written by our intern, Martin Bierwisch: Who hasn’t heard of Robert Eitner (1832-1905)? If you are a musicologist, it’s hard to avoid him and his Biographisch-Bibliographisches Quellenlexikon (Bio-Bibliographical Source Lexicon). This work also happens to be available online through the University of...

29 September 2014 – RISM A-Z

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Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek

Ten years ago, in September 2004, a devastating fire broke out at the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar (D-WRz). In total, 196,000 books and manuscripts, including music materials, were in the building that burned. 28,000 were spared but 50,000 were completely destroyed. A further 118,000 items sustained damage during...

25 September 2014 – Musical anniversaries

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IAML Poland Celebrates 50 Years

This week, our Polish colleagues are celebrating the 50th anniversary of IAML Poland with a conference in Warsaw on 23-24 September 2014. The topic of the conference is Music Information in the Future (Muzyczna Informacja Jutra). IAML president Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie has been invited to deliver a presentation about the...

22 September 2014 – Events

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