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International Women's Day: Women Pianists in RISM
In 2018 we published a post about women pianists in RISM to celebrate International Women’s Day. Since then, the number of women pianists in RISM has grown from 250 to over 400. All the more reason to give you an update. Since RISM is a database that documents specific sources...
8 March 2022
Musical Dedications, in Love and Friendship
Dédié à Madame Son Epouse —Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz Al mio amico F. Brizzi —Fabio Campana Composed, and most humbly Dedicated (by Permission) His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge —Catherine Hyde Solari Meinem lieben “Basler Liederkranz” gewidmet —Edwin Schlumpf Valentine’s Day is a time to think about those who you hold...
14 February 2022
Happy Holidays 2021!
The RISM Editorial Center wishes you all the best for a festive holiday season, fittingly with a historical Christmas and New Year’s card from as early as 1843. We are grateful for your interest in our work and in particular for your valuable contributions that help us improve our service...
20 December 2021
RISM: How is it good for musicians?
As its multilingual name suggests, the Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen seeks to represent the interests of higher music education institutions on an international level. Besides its annual congresses, the AEC organizes several events dedicated to more specific areas, most recently the Early Music Platform 2021,...
16 December 2021
Liturgical Festivals in the Western Church for the Christmas Season
The church year in Western Christianity begins with the First Sunday of Advent during the Christmas season. Ever since the liturgical reform after the Second Vatican Council, the Christmas cycle in the Roman Catholic church lasts forty days, until Epiphany (Trium Regum in RISM) on 6 January. Prior to the...
6 December 2021
Carillon Concert at Stift Heiligenkreuz for the 300th Birthday of Matthias Vanden Gheyn
We have received the following from Pater Roman Nägele (Curator of the Art Collection, Director of the Manuscript Collection, Leader of the Music Archive, Stift Heiligenkreuz, Austria): The carillon of Heiligenkreuz Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in the Vienna Woods, is housed in a Baroque bell tower. Abbot Franz Gaumannmüller commissioned...
18 November 2021
IAML Online Meeting: Swedish musical life during the last four hundred years
The following is by Pia Shekhter (President, International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres) and was originally published on the IAML website. It is published here with kind permission. On behalf of the Swedish IAML Branch it is a pleasure for me to invite you all to: Swedish...
4 November 2021
RISM at the GfM Conference: Source Documentation since Beethoven
The annual conference of the German Musicological Society (Gesellschaft für Musikforschung) is taking place this week in Bonn. The theme of the conference is Musicology after Beethoven. Please join us on Thursday, 30 September at 11:30 for our paper entitled “Source Documentation in RISM since Beethoven.” Ludwig van Beethoven, along...
27 September 2021
Concert in the Kaisersaal Concludes the Heiligenkreuz Abbey Music Academy
We have received the following from Pater Roman Nägele OCist (Stift Heiligenkreuz, Österreich): The seventh Internationale Musikakademie Ferdinand Rebay took place at Stift Heiligenkreuz this year. The goal of the Academy is to make works from the archive of Ferdinand Rebay (1880–1953) known. As a boy, Rebay sang in the...
23 September 2021
Woodblocks and Music from the Museum Plantin-Moretus
One unexpected benefit of the now-normal online environment is that conferences and workshops, which would have formerly taken place on site with a few dozen participants, are now online and attract hundreds of people from around the globe. Even better, they are often recorded and made available online. One example...
2 September 2021
