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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
Be My (Robert) Valentine
Today is Valentine’s Day, and the perfect Valentine for all music lovers is the music of Robert Valentine. Robert Valentine (1674-1747) was an English composer who spent most of his career in Rome beginning in the 1790s. In his publications, Valentine Italianized his name to “Roberto Valentine” yet also qualified...
14 February 2018
Ecco carnevale!
Today is Rosenmontag in our corner of Germany, the highlight of the Carnival season. It is hard to avoid colorful costumes, parades, and general revelry (in all its forms). Join us on our own parade of Carnival music through the centuries! Carnival has been marked by its unique regional and...
12 February 2018
Exhibit in the Bavarian State Library on Historic Tablatures
The Bavarian State Library (BSB) in Munich is presenting an exhibit on tablature manuscripts entitled “Etlich Liedlein zu singen oder uff der Orgeln und Lauten zu schlagen.” The manuscript tablatures and partbooks from the 16th and 17th centuries will be on view until 28 March 2018. The tablatures present a...
15 January 2018
Happy Holidays 2017!
The RISM Central Office wishes you and your family all the best for a festive holiday season and a happy New Year. Our office will be closed the week of December 25. We look forward to working with you again in 2018. Image: Postcard circa 1900 from Furman University, Special...
21 December 2017
Conference Report: "Keeping Music Alive: Women Composers in Digital Music Archives"
The following has reached us from Park Jeong Suk (Ewha Womans University): As the South Korea branch of IAML and RISM, the EMRI (Ewha Music Research Institute) organized an international conference entitled “Keeping Music Alive: Women Composers in Digital Music Archives” on October 27 and 28, 2017. The EMRI has...
15 December 2017
Second Muscat Workshop in Prague
Zuzana Petrášková, the leader of the RISM Czech Republic national working group, organized a Muscat workshop from 27 to 29 November 2017 at the National Library of the Czech Republic in Prague. A Muscat workshop had previously been held there in November 2016. A total of ten people participated in...
11 December 2017
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
