News archive – New at RISM
Announcing the RISM Digital Center
We are pleased to announce that RISM Switzerland has been restructured to form the RISM Digital Center. This evolution is the result of more than a decade of active contribution to the field of digital methods, including the development of tools highly relevant for the entire RISM community and beyond....
15 December 2020
My Internship at RISM
In October 2020 the RISM Central Office offered a group internship for the first time. Over the course of the year, we received several applications from students who were interested in an internship. We adapted to the Corona situation and offered four people internships at once. Miquela Döppenschmitt is the...
3 December 2020
Friedrich Gottlieb Klingenberg: The Wedding Composer
You can only find biographical information about Friedrich Gottlieb Klingenberg somewhat indirectly. There are no entries for him in the standard references works Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart or New Grove (both print and the online versions). He is only mentioned in connection with the city Stettin (today Szczecin) and...
26 November 2020
Electronic Thematic Catalogs
There was a fruitful discussion on Facebook recently among music librarians to identify electronic thematic catalogs, which are especially useful in these times of remote instruction and distance learning. In case other people are interested in thematic catalogs, catalogs of works, or simple works lists that are available online, we...
9 November 2020
Printed Music and Early Printed Books
We are excited to be included in the list of catalogs on the website Early Printed Books by Sarah Werner, a resource for exploring the history of the medium between 1450 to 1800. The website complements the book Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide (Wiley, 2019) and offers...
15 October 2020
The Other Giacomo Puccini
No, today we don’t mean the opera composer Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), who has ca. 100 entries in the RISM database, but rather the composer of sacred music. Giacomo Puccini was the great-great grandfather of the famous opera composer and lived from 1712 to 1781. He studied in Bologna and was...
12 October 2020
RISM Projects While Working from Home
With Coronavirus restrictions still in place to varying degrees around the world, not everyone has been able to return to their library or archive to work at full capacity. We have a few suggestions for those of you who are looking for projects that can be carried out from home...
14 September 2020
RISM Data Now in EROMM
Digitized musical sources (manuscripts, printed music, writings on music theory, libretti) from RISM are now available through EROMM Search. EROMM is the European Register of Microform and Digital Masters, which has the goal of coordinating digitization and microfilming activities and helping users find out where such surrogates are available. There...
10 September 2020
A Farewell from Long-Time RISM Director Klaus Keil
Dear working group contributors, supporters, and friends of RISM, I have been the director of the RISM Central Office for nearly 30 years and have worked here for more than 37. The time has come for me to go. On 31 August 2020, I will leave my position and go...
27 August 2020
Musik und Tanz zur Gesundung König Felipes III. von Spanien
Vor ziemlich genau 400 Jahren erschien in Neapel bei Costantino Vitale der Sammeldruck Breve Racconto della Festa a Ballo, von dem heute lediglich ein Exemplar in der Bibliothèque nationale de France (F-Pn) erhalten ist. Die Festa a Ballo ist eines der wenigen aus Italien stammenden Zeugnisse höfischer Tanzveranstaltungen mit Musik...
9 July 2020
