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Minna Brandes
Today, the letter B stands for Minna Brandes (1765-1788), a German composer and singer whose compositions attracted attention mainly because she died so young. She was born in Berlin to a theatrical family and died only 23 years later in Hamburg. As a singer, actress, and fortepianist, she was well...
27 May 2014 – RISM A-Z
CFPs: Upcoming Conferences
Attention musicologists and performers! Three conferences of interest have reached us via the AMS: 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2014) Incorporating the Transforming Musicology Challenge 12th September 2014 (full day), London, UK in conjunction with the ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries conference 2014 Paper submission deadline: 27th June 2014...
25 May 2014 – In the news
New Coordinating Committee Elected
National RISM working groups as well as individuals and institutions that contribute to RISM projects can engage with the work of the RISM Zentralredaktion and strategic decisions of the board in a variety of ways. In order to formalize this participation, an Advisory Council is formed. Five representatives are elected...
22 May 2014 – New at RISM
RISM and Big Data
The following article has been adapted, with kind permission, from the British Library Music Blog: The British Library and Royal Holloway, University of London (partner institutions for RISM United Kingdom) have announced that they have received a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for just over £79,000...
28 April 2014 – Library collections
Légende norvégienne: Unknown work by the Belgian violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe at the Royal Library of Belgium
The music collections of the Royal Library of Belgium (B-Br) have been recently enlarged by a previously unknown work by the Belgian violin virtuoso Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), entitled Légende norvégienne, thanks to the acquisition of the autograph score version. In the spring of 1882, Eugène Ysaÿe toured in Norway. During...
11 April 2014 – Rediscovered
New Version of the RISM Online Catalog
RISM would like to announce the release of a new version of the online catalog. The content is the same, but there is a new interface with features that will make it easier to find musical sources. New features include: • Search for digitized music Autocomplete in the search boxes...
10 April 2014 – RISM online catalog
Unknown lieder by Dutch composer Anna Merkje Cramer discovered in Cologne
In the library of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne (D-KNh), nine previously unknown lieder by the Dutch composer Anna Merkje Cramer (1873-1968) were recently identified. They had been cataloged under the wrong name due to a misreading. Cramer was a pupil of Wilhelm Berger, with whom she...
3 April 2014 – Rediscovered
Missing Works by Italian Composer Giovanni Francesco Bicchini Discovered
In the attic of the archives of the Ospedale Wolf-Ferrari in Messina, Italy (I-MEow), a collection of important works by the relatively unknown Italian composer Giovanni Francesco Bicchini (d. 1585) was recently discovered by RISM catalogers working in the area. Our view of this composer, previously known only through his...
1 April 2014 – Rediscovered
Source Studies in Musical Culture
We would like to announce the recent publication of papers presented at a conference organized by the Department of Musicology of Adam Mickiewicz University and the Archdiocesan Archive in Poznań, Poland in September 2011: Alina Mądry and Magdalena Walter-Mazur, eds. Source Studies in Musical Culture. Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology 11....
25 March 2014 – New publications
Pedro António Avondano
This week we will highlight the works of Pedro António Avondano (1714-1782), a Portuguese composer who was born 300 years ago this April. Although he was born and died in Lisbon, his works have seen more of the world than he did. The RISM database indexes 62 sources for Avondano,...
25 March 2014 – RISM A-Z
