News archive – Events
2017/11: The Collaborative Project on Chinese Music Resources 2017 Annual Meeting and the RISM Cataloging Workshop are inaugurated at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music
The following has reached us from TSENG Tzu-Chia of the RISM-Chinese Language Region working group: The annual meeting of the Collaborative Project on Chinese Music Resources and the International Workshop on Repatriation: History and Significance of Early Sound Recordings Made in China took place on November 8, 2017. At the...
20 November 2017
First German Performance of Matthias Pernsteiner's "Missa posta in musica"
On Sunday, 26 November 2017, a traditional church concert will take place at St. Philippus’ in Munich (Westendstr. 249, 80686 Munich). A highlight of the concert will be the first German performance of a mass in E-flat by Matthias Pernsteiner (1795-1851). From 1822 to 1823, Pernsteiner was the organist at...
13 November 2017
Der 250. Geburtstag von Bernhard Heinrich Romberg
Bernhard Heinrich Romberg (bapt. 13 November 1767, Dinklage – 13 August 1841, Hamburg) war ein deutscher Cellist und Komponist. Gemeinsam mit seinem etwa gleichaltrigen Cousin Andreas Romberg (1767–1821), der Violine spielte, trat Bernhard Romberg schon im Alter von sieben Jahren in Münster öffentlich auf. Ihre Konzertreisen durch Europa führten sie...
9 November 2017
Musicologists, Muscat, and Mexico
RISM was invited to the conference “Celebración y Sonoridad en Hispanoamérica (Siglos XVI-XIX): Homenaje a José López-Calo,” which took place last month from 4-6 October in Morelia, Mexico. The conference was organized by the Centro Cultural de la UNAM, the Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad Morelia, UNAM, and the...
2 November 2017
Muscat Workshop in Vienna
The following news has reached us from Stefan Engl (President, IAML Austria): A Muscat workshop took place in Vienna on 17 October 2017 in the new facilities of the Education Department at the Austrian National Library. The leader of the workshop was Dr. Ikarus Kaiser, organist of Wilhering Abbey and...
23 October 2017
Muscat Workshops this Fall
Muscat, RISM’s specialized software for cataloging musical sources, now has nearly 200 users. We continue to gain new contributors each month. Workshops are important ways of introducing contributors to the fundamentals of cataloging with RISM. This fall, four workshops will take place in three countries: Muscat Workshop at the Fryderyk...
25 September 2017
Riga, RISM, Līgo
Four people from the RISM Central Office attended the annual IAML Congress in Riga, Latvia in June 2017. The following is a congress diary from all four participants that was originally published on the IAML website. In keeping with the Congress Diary tradition, the reflections are presented in the native...
27 July 2017
Mark the Music! Uncovering Musical Sources in Sweden
Last month, the week before the IAML Congress in Riga, the Svenska musikbiblioteksföreningen (the Swedish branch of IAML) hosted a course called Mark the Music — a course for librarians working with music. Pia Shekhter (University of Gothenburg’s Music and Drama Library) invited me (Jennifer Ward) to give a presentation...
24 July 2017
RISM at the IAML Congress in Riga
RISM is heading to the Baltic coast this month to participate in the annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres. From 18-22 June 2017, we will see our colleagues around the world at the stunning National Library of Latvia in Riga. As usual, RISM...
12 June 2017
Exhibition: Baroque Musical Life in Grimma, Saxony
This post is by Andrea Hartmann of RISM Germany–Dresden Office: We would like to call your attention to a small exhibition that is part of this year’s festival of Baroque music in Grimma (near Leipzig), Tage Mitteldeutscher Barockmusik. As the hart panteth after the water brooks – Music in Grimma...
22 May 2017
