News archive – In memoriam
In memoriam Gertraut Haberkamp (29 January 1937 – 5 November 2023)
On the same day as Dr. Harald Heckmann, long-time president of RISM, Dr. Gertraut Haberkamp, who stood for RISM’s work like few others and was also a leading authority on the sources of the Viennese Classics, passed away in Munich. Gertraut Haberkamp was born in Bochum, the middle of five...
30 November 2023
In Memoriam Harald Heckmann (6 December 1924 – 5 November 2023)
In Harald Heckmann, the world of music archivists and documenters has lost one of its most distinguished personalities. Those of us who had the privilege of working with him have also lost a wise mentor and fatherly friend. Born the son of an art historian and teacher in Dortmund, he...
16 November 2023
Harald Heckmann (1924-2023)
The team and the Board of the RISM Editorial Center mourn the loss of their honorary president Dr. Harald Heckmann. He passed away on 5 November 2023, at the age of 98. An obituary will be published here shortly.
8 November 2023
André Guerra Cotta In Memoriam
We were deeply saddened to hear of the recent death of our colleague André Guerra Cotta (1966-2021). André was one of the founding members of RISM Brazil when it was reactivated in 2005 and he represented the working group at conferences in Brazil and abroad. He was a consistent presence...
14 October 2021
Friedrich W. Riedel (1929-2020)
Prof. Dr. Friedrich W. Riedel, who led the RISM Zentralredaktion from 1960 to 1967 when it was in Kassel, died on 10 September 2020. Friedrich Wilhelm Riedel was born in 1929 in Cuxhaven and studied sacred music in Lübeck and music, history, and liturgics in Kiel, earning his doctorate in...
24 September 2020
José Vicente González Valle In Memoriam
It saddened us to learn that the founder of the RISM working group in Spain, Prof. Dr. José Vicente González Valle, passed away on 23 February 2019. José Vicente, as we called him, was an organist, priest, musicologist, a good organizer, and a kind, dear man. He first encountered RISM...
18 March 2019
Remembering Danuta Szlagowska (1946-2018)
We were saddened to hear of the death of our dear colleague Prof. Dr. Hab. Danuta Szlagwoska, who passed away on 13 March 2018. Prof. Szlagwoska had been a member of the RISM Poland working group in Gdańsk since 1997. Through her extensive documentation work there, she contributed immensely to...
26 March 2018
Dr. Kurt Dorfmüller (28 April 1922 – 16 June 2017)
“RISM owes a great debt of gratitude to Herr Dorfmüller for his long-time service as a member of the Commission Mixte and as chair of his Advisory Research Committee.” So wrote the then-president of the Association Internationales Quellenlexikon der Musik e.V., Harald Heckmann, in 1998. The Advisory Research Committee, under...
4 July 2017
RISM mourns the loss of Wolfgang Rehm (1929-2017)
The International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) mourns the loss of Wolfgang Rehm, who passed away on April 6, 2017. Wolfgang Rehm was a founding member of the Association Internationales Quellenlexikon der Musik and was its treasurer from 1967 to 1990, though correspondence with him goes back to 1960. In...
10 April 2017
Remembering Cheryl Martin
We were saddened to hear of the unexpected death of Cheryl Martin on July 15, 2016. Cheryl was the leader of the RISM Canada working group, which she took over in 2011 following William Guthrie’s retirement. Cheryl was a librarian at Western University in Ontario. Her cataloging expertise was always...
23 November 2016
