News archive – Events
European Capitals of Culture 2026
Similar to earlier years, we would like to call to your attention the European Capitals of Culture. The host cities for 2026 are Oulu in Finland and Trenčín in Slovakia. Offering a varied program, each city is focusing on a specific theme throughout the year, while showcasing its unique cultural...
6 August 2026
RISM at the 2026 IAML Congress in Thessaloniki, Greece
This year’s annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece. Please look at the IAML Thessaloniki page on our website for the RISM events during the week: a RISM session, meetings of the Coordinating Committee, Commission Mixte, and RISM...
11 June 2026
The month of May in music
“In the beautiful month of May” – thus goes the first line of a well-known poem by Heinrich Heine, which Robert Schumann set to music to open his song cycle “Dichterliebe.” This Lied is arguably one of the best known of its kind and would certainly rank among the most...
21 May 2026
The “Bußpsalmencodex” of Albrecht V exhibited in Munich on 20 and 21 May
It is too large to be considered a typical devotional book. Too precious to be used in church services. Too sophisticated in its illustrations to serve merely as a representative work, and too unsystematic in its presentation of knowledge to meet the standards of an encyclopaedia. (Andrea Gottdang in...
7 May 2026
Mozart Treasures from Salzburg on Exhibition in New York
The International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg owns one of the world’s most significant Mozart collections, which originated from gifts and bequests from the Mozart family. For a remarkable exhibition, a significant part of this collection has traveled to the United States for the first time. They are on display at...
16 April 2026
Marking Music: The Use of Music Books in Early Modern Europe
The acronym DORMEME stands for “Dissemination, Ownership, and Reading of Music in Early Modern Europe.” This interdisciplinary project – led by Dr. Elisabeth Giselbrecht at King’s College London – focuses on surviving copies of polyphony printed across Europe between 1500 and 1545, and poses diverse questions regarding their users. Who...
9 April 2026
Special exhibition with new Bach sources from Leipzig
In a special exhibition, the Leipzig City Archive (in cooperation with the Leipzig Bach Archive and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig) presents recently discovered and yet unknown sources in regard to Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Christoph Gottsched and Georg Philipp Telemann. The following exhibition announcement is reproduced with...
26 February 2026
IAML Online Event "Researching and Cataloging Historical Bookbindings: Two Perspectives"
The following has reached us from the IAML Online Events Committee. The IAML Online Events Committee and the Research Libraries Section are pleased to announce a new 2026 online event on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at 14:00 UTC/GMT. See other time zones by clicking here. Participation is free and open...
12 February 2026
Looking back on 2025
As in past years, we are using the beginning of a new year to take stock of the previous year and share what was most popular with our website readers. These are the year’s blog posts that were read the most often, according to our website statistics: The Musical Public...
29 January 2026
“Christmas” by Engelbert Humperdinck
In the past two years our last news items presented musical greetings for the New Year: a tiny chorus by Carl Eberwein preserved in the collection of the Berlin Sing-Akademie, and a playful vocal bagatelle by Luigi Cherubini, apparently dedicated to his friend Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, a famous collector of decorative...
18 December 2025
