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On the Trail of the Music at the Dresden Court
The following article is by Nina Eichholz and was originally published on the SLUBlog. We are publishing it here with the kind permission of the SLUB Dresden. The second SLUB project began one year ago to catalog its valuable music materials from the time of the Saxon-Polish union (1697-1763). Financed...
1 September 2014 – New at RISM
Teresa Milanollo @RISM
Today is the birthday of Italian violinist and composer Teresa Milanollo (1827-1904). As a nine-year-old, Teresa fascinated audiences with her violin playing. Together with her sister Maria, who was five years younger, they were a successful violin prodigy duo. Tragically, their celebrated performances came to an end in 1848 when...
28 August 2014 – Musical anniversaries
Music Migrations in the Early Modern Age: the Meeting of the European East, West and South
The MusMig (Music Migrations) project is a three-year project funded by the Joint Research Programme “Cultural Enconters” of HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area). It seeks to document the movement of music and musicians in the east, west, and south of Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Musicians...
25 August 2014 – New at RISM
Axel Klein, O'Kelly - An Irish Musical Family in Nineteenth-Century France
A new book has been published by Axel Klein, who was our Ireland consultant when RISM presented An Evening of Irish Music in March 2014. O’Kelly - An Irish Musical Family in Nineteenth-Century France. Norderstedt: BoD, 2014, 493pp. ISBN: 978-3-7357-2310-9 As Klein writes: “This book describes the careers and the...
21 August 2014 – New publications
Olga Diener
Who was Olga Diener? The RISM database contains 236 works by Swiss composer Olga Diener (1890-1963), most in her own hand, all held by the Swiss National Library (CH-BEl). Many of the pieces are either for string quartet or piano. Her scores are part of the Olga Diener Collection and...
19 August 2014 – RISM A-Z
Recent Publications about Music Manuscripts and Institutions
We (relatively) recently received two journal issues from the organizations that co-sponsor RISM, IAML and IMS. Both contain articles that discuss musical sources or institutions and could be of interest to the RISM community. They have been cataloged in Kallisto and can be cited by our RISM contributors. From Acta...
14 August 2014 – New publications
Vivaldi Embedded – Violin concerto by Brescianello turns out to be a pasticcio
The following article is by Karl Wilhelm Geck and was originally published on the SLUBlog. We are publishing it here with the kind permission of the SLUB Dresden. Once again, the digital Schrank No: II collection–with its Baroque instrumental repertoire of the Dresden Court Orchestra–has proven to be a reservoir...
11 August 2014 – Rediscovered
Cats in Music
Today is International Cat Day! With RISM, you can find all the music you need to celebrate in style. If International Cat Day had started 200 years ago, musicians could have enjoyed these pieces, from RISM series A/I (printed editions before 1800): • Charles Dibdin: The cat, a new song...
8 August 2014 – New at RISM
François Couperin
A recent study by Byron Sartain details the locations of some pieces by François Couperin: Byron Sartain, “The manuscript dissemination of François Couperin’s harpsichord music,” Early Music Vol. XLI, No. 3 (2013): 377-391 In the article, the author traced the current locations of Couperin’s harpsichord music and found 77 manuscripts...
6 August 2014 – RISM A-Z
Drew Edward Davies, Catálogo de la Colección de música del Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis de Durango
A new thematic catalog has been published by Drew Edward Davies (Northwestern University) that documents for the first time the complete musical holdings of Mexico’s Durango Cathedral (MEX-Dc): Drew Edward Davies. Catálogo de la Colección de música del Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis de Durango (Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones...
4 August 2014 – New publications
