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Stylistic Eras Meet Each Other
Pater Roman has a short report for us about how things have almost returned to normal at Heiligenkreuz Abbey (Austria) after these exceptional circumstances. Gregorian chant rings out in accordance with Cistercian and Benedictine traditions at the Romanesque and Gothic collegiate church of Heiligenkreuz Abbey (RISM library siglum: A-HE). For...
8 June 2020
Music Manuscripts by Richard Strauss and Hans Pfitzner Online
The following was originally published on the blog of the Bavarian State Library and is reprinted here with kind permission. For years, the Bavarian State Library (BSB) has been making music manuscripts from its most prominent composer archival collections available online, including the autograph manuscripts of Gustav Mahler, Josef Rheinberger,...
25 May 2020
The Franz Lehár Collection in Bad Ischl, Austria
We have received the following from our RISM contributor Sandra Föger (RISM Austria): April 30, 2020 marks the 150th birthday of Franz Lehár. His works are still very much alive on stages worldwide even today. His operettas such as The Merry Widow, The Count of Luxemburg, Gipsy Love, Paganini, Der...
30 April 2020
Preview of New Records for Polish Music in RISM
We have received the following from Marcelina Chojecka (RISM Poland, Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina): Between August 2019 and January 2020, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute has catalogued 771 manuscripts and autographs by Polish composers in the RISM database: • Józef Elsner (1769–1854) – 58; • Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876–1909) – 38; •...
16 March 2020
New Imported Records from France
After receiving a batch of records from the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris and after an intensive period of technical preparations, we gained some experience and found some ways for an automated data conversion. In fall 2019, ca. 19,000 records for handwritten musical sources were then transferred to the...
5 March 2020
Copies of Opera Scores at the Library of Congress and an Identified Copyist
Research on musicians of the Central Rhine region in Germany sometimes leads to the Library of Congress. Hugo Willemsen (1844-1918), who was born in Elberfeld and whose career took him to Bingen, Speyer, and Saarbrücken, settled in London around 1895. Beginning around 1907, he received orders through Oscar Sonneck to...
24 February 2020
Bari, Barletta, Crispiano, Lecco, Mantova, Noci, Novara, Sassoferrato, and Vercelli
The newest records in the RISM catalog include music manuscripts that we imported from the Italian database SBN Musica. This is part of an ongoing project that we reported on in August. Records from the following libraries can now be found in RISM: I-BAibimus (19 records) I-BARas (33 records) I-CRIc...
5 December 2019
New RISM Cataloging Project at the Conservatory of Queretaro, Mexico
Proyecto de catalogación del Conservatorio de Querétaro, México (English below) John G. Lazos, nuestro colaborador está a punto de comenzar el proyecto de catalogación del acervo musical del Fondo reservado del Conservatorio “José Guadalupe Velázquez” en Querétaro, México (siendo su clave en RISM: MEX-SQamc). Durante su visita de este mes,...
21 November 2019
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel's Cantata Cycle X (1737/38)
We have received the following from Christian Ahrens (Berlin): Observations on the Cantatas from Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel’s Cantata Cycle X (1737/38) in the Manuscript Mus.ms 40370, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz In his 1976 publication on cantatas of the Gotha Kapellmeister Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690–1749), Fritz Hennenberg counted 414...
7 October 2019
New Catalog of the Music Archive of Vizcaínas (Mexico)
We have received the following from our RISM contributor John G. Lazos: John G. Lazos, Catálogo del Acervo Musical del Colegio de Vizcaínas (Amcv). La memoria sonora de los colegios femeninos en México entre los siglos XVI-XIX, 2019. Available through academia.edu. Dr. Lazos has completed the Catálogo del Acervo Musical...
5 August 2019
