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The Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth
The Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth opens today. But apart from the famous Green Hill, the Bavarian town is also home to the Margravial Opera House, one of the largest Baroque theaters in Europe. It is currently being restored (in a project that is expected to last until 2018), but...
25 July 2016
RISM at the IAML Congress
All roads lead to Rome - will we see you there? RISM is looking forward to the annual conference of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres from 3 to 8 July 2016. As in years past, RISM will be sponsoring sessions. In addition, several of our...
13 June 2016
Bachfest and Sanssouci – Leipzig and Potsdam
Leipzig’s first Bach Festival took place in 1908. Bachfest has been held annually there since 1999, with a different theme each year. This year, from June 10 to 19, the theme is Secrets of Harmony (program in PDF). Over 100 events will take place at more than 30 venues. New...
9 June 2016
Pentecost and Music
For many, “Pentecost” (Whitsun) and “music” call to mind the striking setting of the Pentecost hymn Veni Creator Spiritus in Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. A look in the RISM database shows the versatile musical forms the text has taken. The 1,276 RISM records range from Heinrich Finck (ca. 1444-1527), who...
12 May 2016
Musical Greetings for Mother's Day
This Sunday, Mother’s Day will be celebrated in dozens of countries around the world, including here in Germany. Cards and flowers are usually a must on the second Sunday in May, but at RISM we have some suggestions for brightening the day with music. Mother’s Day is only about 100...
6 May 2016
Five opera premieres to look forward to in May
For opera lovers looking for rarely heard gems, the month of May will not disappoint. Take a look at these five, which also have autograph manuscripts in the RISM database. Vincenzo Bellini: Adelson e Salvini May 11, The Barbican, London Autograph sketches in Berlin (RISM ID no. 464120091) The opera...
2 May 2016
Shakespeare 400 und die Musik
Überall auf der Welt feiern Dramatiker, Schauspieler und Liebhaber der englischen Literatur William Shakespeare (1564-1616), dessen Todestag sich am Samstag zum 400. Mal jährt. (Und sein 452. Geburtstag wird am Dienstag gefeiert). Der Barde hat uns ein Vermächtnis hinterlassen das weltweit hoch ansehen ist und seine Arbeiten regen noch heute...
21 April 2016
Magdeburg in Georg Philipp Telemann's Footsteps
These days, illustrious performers are expected once again in Magdeburg. The 23rd Magdeburg Telemann Festival focuses this year on Telemann and the concert, spotlighting works that Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) himself once presented as a concert promoter. Beginning last Friday and continuing until March 20, there are numerous events taking...
14 March 2016
Conference: The Music Repertoire of the Society of Jesus in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1565–1773)
From February 5 to 6, 2016, Guido Kraus from the RISM Central Office attended an international musicological conference at the University of Warsaw Library entitled “The Music Repertoire of the Society of Jesusin the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1565–1773).Sources – Editing – Cataloguing.” The conference was hosted by the Institute of Musicology...
19 February 2016
RISM Workshop and Seminar in Warsaw (February 3-4, 2016)
The following has reached us from Sonia Wronkowska of RISM Poland: The workshop “Introduction to Kallisto” and a RISM seminar took place at the beginning of February in Warsaw, and was organised by the Polish RISM Centre (Music Department) and the Librarian Education Department of the National Library of Poland....
17 February 2016
