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RISM at the 2024 IAML Congress in Stellenbosch, South Africa
This year’s annual IAML Congress will take place in Stellenbosch, South Africa and will mark the first time a IAML congress has taken place on the African continent. Our Stellenbosch page lists the RISM events during the week: the RISM session, a meeting of the Coordinating Committee, and a two-part...
6 June 2024
250 years of the music publisher André in Offenbach
There are many musical anniversaries to celebrate this year (for a list, see our earlier post). However, the notable anniversaries include not only those of musicians and composers but also those of companies. A case in point is the music publishing house of Johann André, founded in Offenbach in 1774,...
29 May 2024
Henriette Louise von Hayn at 300
This year we are celebrating the 300th birthday of the German poet Henriette Louise von Hayn, who was born on 22 May 1724 in Idstein (Hesse) and died on 27 August 1782 in Herrnhut (Upper Lusatia). At the age of 22 (1746), she joined Count Zinzendorf’s Protestant Brethren community against...
23 May 2024
Musical Leap Year Babies
Famous Leap Year Day babies are rare, although among the composers Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868; RISM Catalog | RISM Online) is very well known. But the RISM database has many more people who celebrate their birthdays on February 29. The English composer Humphrey Bralesford (1658-1733; RISM Catalog | RISM Online) has...
29 February 2024
Looking back on 2023
As in past years, we are using the beginning of a new year to take stock of the previous year and share what was most popular with our website readers. These are the year’s blog posts that were read the most often, according to our website statistics: ...
18 January 2024
Revival of a Baroque Mass from the Music Archive of Wilhering Abbey
On 8 December 2023, a baroque mass was revived in performance at Wilhering Abbey (Upper Austria) from the monastery’s own music archive. The “Missa Sancti Alani” was written by Franz Xaver Weinwurmb, who worked as an organist and composer at Wilhering Abbey around the middle of the 18th century (RISM...
15 January 2024
For the New Year, according to old custom
Approaching the end of the year, it seems fitting to call your attention to a musical new year’s greeting from over two centuries ago. The precious collection of the Berlin Sing-Akademie (D-Bsa), which had gone missing during World War II, was rediscovered in 1999 by Christoph Wolff (later also president...
21 December 2023
Annual Meeting of IAML Germany in Lübeck
The annual meeting of IAML’s German national branch was held in Lübeck, Germany, on 19-22 September 2023. The University of Music Lübeck and the Library of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck served as hosts, and the event was organized in an exemplary fashion by Torsten Senkbeil, Martin Blank, and Arndt...
26 October 2023
Anniversary Symposium of RISM Germany
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of RISM’s German working group, a symposium will be held on November 21 and 22 at the Bavarian State Library in Munich. The event bears the title “Musical Sources of the 19th Century in Germany: Challenges and Opportunities” and offers...
19 October 2023
MEC-TEI Joint Conference: Encoding Cultures
The joint conference of the Music Encoding Conference and the Text Encoding Initiative met from 4-8 September 2023 in Paderborn, Germany. The theme was “Encoding Cultures” and the week was full of workshops, papers, posters, meetings, and discussions. It was a hybrid conference with some presenters and participants joining us...
5 October 2023
