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Congress Diary from IAML Leipzig 2018
Four members of the RISM Central Office attended the annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres in Leipzig. In traditional Congress Diary style, we offer you some impressions from Leipzig with each contributor writing in their native language. Von Klaus Keil: Meine Aufgabe auf...
23 August 2018
The R Projects in Beijing
RISM is one of four major international music bibliographic undertakings that are collectively known as the Four R Projects. While RISM documents musical sources, RILM indexes secondary literature, RIdIM focuses on music iconography, and RIPM deals with music periodicals. For some time now, these projects have intensified their cooperative efforts...
16 August 2018
4th International Ferdinand Rebay Academy at Heiligenkreuz Abbey (Austria)
The director of the Music Archive of Heiligenkreuz Abbey, P. Roman Nägele OCist, would like to call our attention to this interesting event in Heiligenkreuz Abbey. A detailed post about the life of the composer Ferdinand Rebay will follow next week. Courses for GUITAR – FLUTE – VOICE Closing concert...
26 July 2018
RISM at the IAML Congress in Leipzig
This year’s IAML congress is just a short train ride away in Leipzig. From 22-27 July 2018 we will join our colleagues around the world at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig (HMT) for the annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and...
2 July 2018
Müllner-Peter Symposium in Sachrang (Bavaria)
We have received the following from Steffen Voss (RISM Germany): This year marks the 175th anniversary of the death of Peter Huber, known as Müllner-Peter, the “Milner Peter from Sachrang” (1766-1843). Huber owned a mill in the small mountain village of Sachrang in the Chiemgau region of Bavaria and was...
28 June 2018
A Musical Guide to the World Cup
Summer can officially begin! The World Cup is here. Tonight is the first game of the 2018 World Cup, in which the men’s teams of 32 nations will compete for the ultimate prize in soccer. We’re starting the group stage with a look at the musical sources for each of...
14 June 2018
Royal Wedding Fever
We’re still waiting for our invitation to the Royal Wedding this Saturday, but we won’t give up hope yet (maybe it just got lost in the mail). While details have not yet been divulged about what pieces will specifically be played at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding ceremony, we...
17 May 2018
RISM at the III Encuentro de Archivos Sonoros y Musicales de Chile
I (Klaus Keil) had the opportunity to give a presentation about RISM and its database of musical sources during the conference III Encuentro de Archivos Sonoros y Musicales de Chile (5-16 March 2018). The Biblioteca nacional de Chile invited me to participate in the conference. During the conference, training courses...
23 April 2018
The Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth is open again, in all its Baroque glory
After more than five years of renovation, the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth will reopen in a ceremony today (12 April). This Baroque opera house is one of a kind in the world, with a splendid wooden interior surrounded by tiered boxes, and has been a UNESCO World Heritage site...
12 April 2018
International Women's Day: Women Pianists in RISM
Note: This post was updated in 2022. Today is International Women’s Day. Last year we published a list of the ca. 800 women composers who are found in the RISM online database. In June we added eight more names to the list and in October another twelve were added. This...
8 March 2018
