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250th anniversary of Jean-Philippe Rameau's death
Jean-Philippe Rameau died 250 years ago today. The RISM online catalog has 230 works by him in over 40 libraries. The sources are widely disseminated throughout Europe and the United States and are mostly of Rameau’s stage works. There is also one autograph manuscript among them: sketches to a keyboard...
12 September 2014 – Musical anniversaries
Jommelli at 300
Along with C. P. E. Bach and Christoph Willibald Gluck, there is another composer who was born exactly 300 years ago: Niccolò Jommelli (1714 – 1774). Jommelli was famous in his lifetime for his numerous operas and also wrote a number of oratorios, masses, and other sacred vocal music. While...
10 September 2014 – Musical anniversaries
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Mariae (B.V.) Nativitas
The birth of the Virgin Mary is commemorated on September 8 in the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Church. The feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (In Nativitate B.M.V.) is also called the Nativity of Our Lady. It probably evolved from the festival of...
8 September 2014 – Events
New (for us) publications from Belgium and the Netherlands
We have recently acquired four publications about Belgian and Dutch musical sources that we would like to share with you: • Gilbert Huybens and Leo van Buyten: “Willem Gommaar Kennis: (Lier 1717-Leuven 1789), leven en werk; zijn muzikale betekenis in de 18. eeuw.” Arca Lovaniensis. Leuven: Vrienden van de Leuvense...
5 September 2014 – New publications
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
