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Cantatas from Blankenburg (Harz) in the Wolfenbüttel regional church archives
Music manuscripts in the Wolfenbüttel regional church archives It is certainly not among the main tasks of a church archive to collect old music prints and manuscripts. However, a recently rediscovered manuscript collection containing church cantatas shows how diverse these historical documents and sources are. The collection, dating from around...
28 June 2011 – Rediscovered
RISM Metadata in Digital Collections
The University of Washington Library (US-Su) is the first library in the United States to undertake a project in which RISM metadata are harvested for use in digital collections.* Their Music Library Digital Scores Collection currently includes digital images of manuscripts held in the Music Library’s Rare Book Collection. The...
21 June 2011 – Library collections
New Volume Published in the Music Manuscripts in Germany Series
Since 2009, the RISM Germany working group and the RISM Zentralredaktion have published catalogs in their series Music Manuscripts in Germany (Musikhandschriften in Deutschland). Based in part on records from the RISM database, the catalogs are geared toward the holding institutions and their users, as well as scholars and musicians...
1 June 2011 – New publications
Holdings of the Berlin Sing-Akademie Cataloged
The complete archival holdings of the Berlin Sing-Akademie have been cataloged. The collection, which is of high importance to musicians and musicologists, was believed to be lost after the Second World War but was discovered in the Ukraine in 1999. In 2001, it was returned to the Berlin State Library....
13 May 2011 – Library collections
Johannes Tinctoris @ RISM
Not much is known about the life of Johannes Tinctoris, although he was the most famous music theorist of his time. What is known is the year of his death, even if the exact date is unclear: Tinctoris died before 12 October 1511—500 years ago. This son of a magistrate...
28 April 2011 – New at RISM
New Version of RISM’s Online Catalog with Incipit Search Released
A new version of the OPAC for the International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) was released at the end of March 2011. New features in this version are a music incipit search, links to digital objects, and various minor improvements, including display of holding libraries in cases of ownership transfer...
11 April 2011 – RISM online catalog
Hippolyte Chélard @ RISM
The artistic career of Hippolyte-André-Jean-Baptiste Chélard (1 February 1789, Paris – 12 February 1861, Weimar) began on 29 June 1827 with the premiere of the tragédie lyrique Macbeth at the Académie royale de musique. Almost exactly one year later, on 20 June 1828, a revised German version was performed at...
3 March 2011 – New at RISM
No Chance for Mozart: Prince-Archbishop Hieronymus Colloredo and the Musicians of his Court
Luigi Gatti (1740-1817), a composer much revered by his contemporaries, spent the first half of his life in Mantua. There he was ordained priest before he dedicated himself to music. As a musician at the court chapel Santa Barbara in Mantua, and especially as an opera composer, he became famous...
14 February 2011 – Events
Francesco Feo @ RISM
Who knows Francesco Feo (1691-1761)? He is one of many musicians whose lives will be celebrated this year, as January 28 is the 250th anniversary of his death. Feo is a distinguished representative of the Neapolitan school from the first half of the 18th century. His name is often dropped...
26 January 2011 – New at RISM
Season's Greetings
The RISM Zentralredaktion wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We invite you to flip through our large selection of predominantly unfamiliar Christmas music sources from our online catalogue.
21 December 2010 – Events
