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Cherubini's Best Wishes for the New Year
Approaching the end of the year, we would again like to call your attention to an intriguing musical document originally conceived as a kind of new year’s wish. However, whereas the piece by Carl Eberwein we introduced to you a year ago had formulated a series of friendly greetings to...
19 December 2024
Muscat Cataloging Workshop in Zagreb
The following has reached us from Lucija Konfic of RISM Croatia. Following several lectures on RISM cataloging offered to students in Zagreb and Varaždin, a public workshop about cataloging musical sources with the Muscat application was held in Zagreb on 11 and 12 October 2024. The event took place at...
28 November 2024
Music of Funerals, Death, and Mourning
In view of the upcoming religious festivals and holidays – such as Halloween, Reformation Day, All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day, as well as the Sunday of the Dead – it seems fitting to take a closer look at compositions related to the topic of funerals, death, and mourning. The...
31 October 2024
2024 IAML Germany Annual Meeting in Frankfurt am Main
From 17 to 20 September 2024 the annual meeting of the German branch of IAML (International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres) took place in Frankfurt am Main. The German National Library was the main venue, and they along with the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Oper...
10 October 2024
A Visit to the André Archive in Offenbach
You may have already seen that this year marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of Johann André’s publishing house, which started in Offenbach in 1774. Though no longer publishing, the venerable business still exists and its historical archive has remained in the André family’s hands this whole time. In...
12 September 2024
RISM in Africa
The 2024 IAML Congress in Stellenbosch, South Africa marked several firsts: the first time a IAML Congress took place on the African continent, the first time so many of our colleagues from Africa could participate in a IAML event, and for many IAML members it was our first time in...
29 August 2024
The Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival greets Venice with a hearty “Moin”
The motto of this year’s Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, which runs until 1 September, is “Moin Venedig” – juxtaposing a characteristic North-German greeting with the distant “Pearl of the Adriatic.” Accordingly, the festival focuses on music directly or indirectly related to Venice, as with Gustav Mahler’s 5th Symphony, which (together with...
22 August 2024
The Performance Material for Richard Wagner's “Tristan and Isolde” in Dresden
Tonight, the Bayreuth Festival opens with Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. A good opportunity to take a brief look at the sources of this work described in RISM. The composer prepared his first sketches as early as 1857, and an autograph album leaf, written in Paris in 1860, can now...
25 July 2024
What an anniversary year is good for
The following text by Eberhard von Oppen originally appeared on the Carus-Blog and is reproduced here with the publisher’s kind permission. The tendency to focus on “round” time intervals according to the globally dominant decimal system and celebrate the respective anniversaries is as widespread as it is justifiable, since the...
11 July 2024
A Musical Guide to the European Football Championship
On 14 June the European Football Championship 2024 started in Germany. 24 national teams had qualified for it; in the meantime two thirds of them have been eliminated. Now we look forward to the quarter- and semifinals, culminating in the final on Sunday, 14 July 2024. In the two-day break...
4 July 2024
