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Jean-Baptiste Lully @ RISM
Jean-Baptiste Lully was born Giovanni Battista Lulli on 28 November 1632 in Florence but spent most of his life in the service of King Louis XIV. He became a French citizen in 1661. Lully began his career at the French court as a dancer until his compositional breakthrough in 1657...
21 March 2012 – New at RISM
RISM Conference preliminary program
On the conference page, the preliminary program can now be viewed. In addition, there is an online form for registering. Please complete the registration form. In so doing, you will be helping us considerably with the organization.
29 February 2012 – Events
Unknown piano piece by Mozart discovered in Tyrol, Austria
During the ongoing work being done for the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM/International Inventory of Musical Sources), Dr. Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider came across a music book from around 1780 in Tyrol. This manuscript contains, among other titles, a hitherto unknown piano piece that is expressly attributed to the young “Wolfgango...
28 February 2012 – Rediscovered
Unknown Work by Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach Discovered
In the process of cataloging the manuscripts of Group IV in the Hessian Music Archive in Marburg (D-MGmi), a previously completely unknown pièce d’occasion by Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach came to light. The second-youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and the court Kapellmeister in Bückeburg (near Hanover), he dedicated a...
21 February 2012 – Rediscovered
Processing Music Manuscripts Completed at the St. Boniface Abbey Library, Munich (D-Mb)
The abbot of the St. Boniface Abbey in Munich, RR Johannes Eckert, was presented with a catalog of the music manuscripts in his abbey library on January 20, 2012. This brought to a close the inventorying of manuscripts by Dr. Gottfried Heinz-Kronberger, from the RISM working group in Germany. All...
10 February 2012 – Library collections
RISM Conference
Music Documentation in Libraries, Scholarship, and Practice To mark the 60th anniversary of RISM, an international conference will take place from 4-6 June 2012 at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, Germany (Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 2, 55131 Mainz). Sources are the foundation of all...
18 January 2012 – Events
Merry Christmas
With these Christmas greetings we would like to thank you for your kind support this year and wish you a prosperous, successful new year. RISM Zentralredaktion Sophienstraße 26 60487 Frankfurt am Main Germany
22 December 2011 – Events
CD-ROM of series A/I: Individual prints 1600 to 1800 has been published
We are delighted to announce that the CD-ROM of series A/I has appeared. For the first time the complete series – published between 1971 and 2003 in 14 volumes – is available as a database. For more information see the website of Bärenreiter-Verlag.
15 December 2011 – New publications
New RISM Sigla Search on RISM.info
The RISM library sigla are now searchable on the RISM website. A new database was developed for this purpose and it supersedes the previous PDF publications. The initial inventory consists of 7,080 library sigla. The database is updated monthly. The search results lead users to individual entries in which the...
29 November 2011 – New at RISM
New RISM Working Group Founded in Seoul, South Korea
The Music Research Institute, College of Music at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea has begun to document and build a database of musical sources from Korea and East Asia thanks to a state subsidy. The research team (Director of Music Research Institute: Prof./Dr. Hyun Kyung Chae), through long...
25 November 2011 – New at RISM
