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Musical Christmas Greetings from Tyrol
The annual Tyrolean Christmas Concert will once again sound on 21-22 December 2013 in Innsbruck, Austria. The music will come from the rich treasures found in archives in Reutte (A-RTf) and Stams (A-ST). Program
18 December 2013 – Events
Collectio operum musicalium quae in Bibliotheca Kinsky adservantur
The Thematic Catalogue for the Kinsky Library’s Music Collection The music collection at the Kinsky Library, which is administered by the National Museum Library (CZ-Pn), was first examined in detail in 2010. More than one thousand individual musical documents dating from the end of the 18th and the first half...
26 November 2013 – New publications
Performance: Musical Rarity from Wilhering Abbey
Last year, in the music archive at Wilhering Abbey, Dr. Ikarus Kaiser of the Austrian Academy of Sciences discovered the only known copy of a mass by the Baroque composer Franz Anton Ertl, who was active around Linz, Austria (RISM ID no. 600077182).This coming Sunday, November 24 at 10 AM...
21 November 2013 – Events
Musical Tables
The multifaceted nature of music transmission can be seen in an unusual musical source at the Berchtesgaden Royal Palace, in the southeastern corner of Germany. A song table (Liedertisch)–an etched slab of stone depicting music and set in a wooden frame–is now indexed in the RISM database (RISM no. 450113059)....
22 October 2013 – Rediscovered
Carlo Gesualdo @RISM
Wagner and Verdi are not the only big musical names marking anniversaries this year. Carlo Gesualdo died on 8 September 1613 – 400 years ago. The Principe di Venosa was noted in his time for his bold chromaticisms and was a champion of polyphony in an era when others like...
25 September 2013 – Musical anniversaries
Vivaldi and a Search Engine
Guest post by Michael Talbot (Liverpool, UK): Anyone my age (seventy) has, as it were, “grown up” in parallel with RISM in the various phases of its, and our, evolution. Especially since the transfer of the manuscripts database to an OPAC on the internet, the potentiality to make discoveries, either...
23 August 2013 – Rediscovered
Concert at Stams Abbey: 3 Masses from 3 Archives
On 27 and 28 July 2013, three masses with special reference to Tyrol will sound as part of the sixteenth Tyrolean Church Music Days festival at Stams Abbey in Austria: The Spaur Mass (KV 257) using the source found in Brixen (Bressanone) with autograph entries by Wolfgang Amadeus and Leopold...
12 July 2013 – Events
Consortium of RISM Working Groups in Austria
The Consortium of RISM Working Groups in Austria, which was founded in November 2012, met in Salzburg on June 19 at the International Mozarteum Foundation. One finds on the RISM Zentralredaktion’s website five independent working groups that are currently operating in Austria. There are also several individual projects being carried...
3 July 2013 – New at RISM
New RISM Site in Germany: Tower Library, Nürtingen
Time and again, one finds that archives and libraries with rare and interesting musical sources manage to exist under the radar of scholars. Often these are smaller church or city archives that have just recently arranged their materials and made them accessible to the public, or whose collection strengths lie...
19 June 2013 – Library collections
"Zampa" by Hérold @ RISM
Ferdinand Hérold (1791-1833) was a composer of Alsatian descent. He received his first music lessons from his father Franz Joseph, who had settled in Paris in 1781 to teach piano. When he was around 16, Hérold was accepted to the Paris Conservatory and joined Etienne-Nicolas Méhul’s piano class beginning in...
3 June 2013 – New at RISM
