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Coronation Music
The coronation of Charles III will take place this Saturday in London’s Westminster Abbey. Music will of course play an especially important role. Traditionally, music at coronations is a combination of choral and orchestral pieces, and there is a mix of traditional and newer works. For nearly 300 years, Georg...
4 May 2023 – Events
The 240th Anniversary of Ignaz Holzbauer's Death (1711-1783)
Ignaz Holzbauer (1711-1783)—one of the most important representative of the Mannheim School—is particularly remembered for his German-language opera Günther von Schwarzburg. Two years after the premiere in Mannheim in 1777, he composed an Italian opera, La morte di Didone (1779), based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio. A revision as...
27 April 2023 – Musical anniversaries
Call for Papers: Out of the Box! From Archives to Music History
The following was originally published on H-Soz-Kult and is shared here with kind permission: We welcome interdisciplinary submissions for the symposium “Out of the Box! From Archives to Music History”, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, November 9–11, 2023. Whether metaphor or an actual site, academic resource, or instrument...
20 April 2023 – Events
New Edition of Maddalena Casulana’s 'Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci'
We have received the following from Laurie Stras: Musica Secreta are pleased to announce the publication of a new printed edition of Maddalena Casulana’s Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice: Gardano, 1583; RISM Catalog | RISM Online). The edition was made possible by Laurie Stras’s rediscovery in October...
13 April 2023 – New publications
Music for Maundy Thursday
Today, Maundy Thursday, marks the beginning of the Triduum Sacrum, the three holy days of the Lord’s passion, death and resurrection, and thus the climax of Holy Week. Traditionally, in the Roman Catholic liturgy, the organ plays for the last time in the Gloria of the Mass of the Lord’s...
6 April 2023 – Events
The series Fontes Musicae in Polonia
We have received the following from Tomasz Jeż (editor-in-chief of the series Fontes Musicae in Polonia): In 2015, on the occasion of commencing work on the research project entitled “The musical repertoire of the Society of Jesus in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1565–1773)” implemented by the University of Warsaw and financed...
30 March 2023 – New publications
Demestvo or Demestvennoe mnogogolosie: An Example of Early Russian Orthodox Vocal Polyphony
Our colleague Elena Chernova has created a critical edition of the music manuscript Add. MS 30063 from the British Library (GB-Lbl). The ceremonial illuminated manuscript dates from the time 1685 to 1710 and likely originally belonged to the choir of the Moscow Patriarch. It contains the repertoire of the singers...
23 March 2023 – Library collections
RISM Lecture on Mexican Sources Now Online
The series of RISM Lectures, originally conceived as in-person events, first came to be realized during the COVID-19 pandemic in virtual form. Its first two incarnations – dedicated to the music archives of the Cappella Sistina and the Bach collection of the Berlin States Library were held exclusively online. As...
16 March 2023 – Events
Annual Report 2022
While the work of the RISM Editorial Center in Frankfurt was not strongly affected by the diverse Corona restrictions, the gradual return to personal meetings at major conferences inevitably made the year 2022 a “Retour à la vie” for the entire RISM community. This enabled us to pay due tribute...
9 March 2023 – New publications
Alessandro Vessella (1860-1929)
Even through RISM has nearly 1,200 musical sources with his name, Alessandro Vessella RISM Catalog | RISM Online is probably known to only a few specialists. He was born in Alife in the Campania region of Italy and studied with Costantino Palumbo and Paolo Serrao at the conservatory in Naples....
2 March 2023 – RISM A-Z
