News archive – Library collections
Composers identified in Dresden's royal music collections
This article is by Nina Eichholz (SLUB Dresden) and originally appeared on the Hofmusik in Dresden(Dresden Court Music) project website. It is reprinted here with kind permission. In the DFG project Hofkirche und Königliche Privat-Musikaliensammlung (Dresden Court Church and Royal Private Music Sheet Collection), which has been underway for the...
2 April 2015
Cataloging and Digitizing the Dom-Musikverein and Mozarteum Collection in Salzburg (to 1881)
The following announcement has reached us from our RISM colleagues in Austria: The International Mozarteum Foundation has started a new project in cooperation with the Archdioceses Archive in Salzburg. The goal is to catalog the valuable historical collection of the Dom-Musikverein und Mozarteum (Society for Music at the Cathedral and...
9 March 2015
Funding Renewed for KoFIM Berlin Project
The following announcement has come to us from Martina Rebmann (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin): With generous support from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the KoFIM Berlin project (Kompetenzzentrum Forschung und Information Musik/Center of Excellence for Research and Information in Music) will continue at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin for another three years....
19 February 2015
'Earliest' polyphonic music discovered in British Library
The following entry is by Nicolas Bell and originally appeared on the British Library Music Blog. It is reprinted here with kind permission. The British Library Music Blog has been quiet for a while, but plenty has been going on in the meantime. See the BBC News website for a...
12 January 2015
Historical Schott Archive Acquired by State Libraries in Berlin and Munich and Six Research Institutions
This article comes from Gottfried Heinz-Kronberger of RISM Germany, Bavarian State Library. The historical archive of the music publisher Schott represents a unique cultural asset. There is no other German music publishing house archive that is as big and comprehensive. It comprises the business records (correspondence; records of printers, engravers,...
11 December 2014
Music Archival Collections at the Bavarian State Library
The following article is by Uta Schaumberg, our colleague from RISM Germany at the Music Department of the Bavarian State Library. Extending to all aspects of music and musical culture, the Bavarian State Library holds over 350 archives and collections of various sizes pertaining to individuals. The collection is cataloged...
11 November 2014
Erwin und Elmire im Bestand des Deutschen Nationaltheaters Weimar. Zum 275. Geburtstag von Anna Amalia, Herzogin von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach
Der nachfolgende Artikel wurde von unserer Kollegin Undine Wagner (RISM Arbeitsgruppe Deutschland, Thüringischen Landesmusikarchiv) geschrieben. Der Weimarer Musenhof und Anna Amalias sog. Tafelrunden, zu denen u. a. Goethe, Wieland und Herder gehörten, wurden zu bekannten „Schlagwörtern“ der Weimarer Kulturgeschichte. Anna Amalia, geb. am 24. Oktober 1739 in Wolfenbüttel (als Prinzessin...
24 October 2014
Tudor Treasures
The following entry is by Margaret Jones and originally appeared on the MusiCB3 Blog. It is reprinted here with kind permission of Cambridge University Libraries. I was asked to look out some of the Music Department’s “Tudor treasures” to complement items displayed by other departments. An early item of printed...
16 October 2014
Mozart autograph in the music collections of Mariastein Abbey, Switzerland
Starting in 2010, the music collections of the Abbey of St. Mary in the Rock (Mariastein; CH-MSbk) have been reorganized in the form of rebuilding the Musikarchiv and Notenbibliothek collections. A highlight of the collection is an autograph manuscript by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The online catalog is also available in...
18 July 2014
Music Collections in Berlin and Munich
C.P.E. Bach, Wilhelm Killmayer, Ruth Zechlin, Richard Strauss, Manfred Schubert, and RISM itself. The latest edition of Bibliotheksmagazin: Mitteilungen aus den Staatsbibliotheken in Berlin und München is packed with articles about music collections and includes an article by our colleague Steffen Voss of RISM Germany about the continuation of the...
23 June 2014
