News archive – New publications
Annual Report 2022
While the work of the RISM Editorial Center in Frankfurt was not strongly affected by the diverse Corona restrictions, the gradual return to personal meetings at major conferences inevitably made the year 2022 a “Retour à la vie” for the entire RISM community. This enabled us to pay due tribute...
9 March 2023
Tomás Vicente Tosca and the renewal of music in the 18th century
Antonio Ezquerro Esteban (ed.), Tomás Vicente Tosca y la renovación musical en el siglo XVIII, Universidad de Barcelona (2022), 392 p., ISBN: 978-84-9168-701-6. We are delighted to share with the entire RISM community the news about the re-publication of an 18th-century Spanish music treatise. The restrictions we all had to...
6 February 2023
New Volume Published in RISM Series B: RISM B/XVIII/1
RISM’s series B covers specific categories of repertory. The newest volume has just been published: RISM B/XVIII/1. Christian Meyer: Les sources manuscrites des séquences et proses notées. IXe-XVIe siècles, vol. 1 France, Catalogue descriptif, Munich: G. Henle Verlag, 2022, 751 p., ISBN 978-3-87328-159-2, ISMN 979-0-2018-2532-8 This volume treats manuscript sources...
28 November 2022
Fontes Special Issue: In Celebration of RISM’s Seventieth Anniversary
The latest issue of the journal Fontes artis musicae is a special issue entitled In Celebration of RISM’s Seventieth Anniversary. Guest editor Nicole Schwindt (Chair, RISM Working Group, Germany) describes the ground that RISM has covered in the seven decades since the project’s founding, writing in the issue’s preface that...
10 November 2022
New Brochure "RISM: An Overview"
A new version of the RISM brochure is now available. RISM: An Overview is a 12-page, full-color brochure in English and German that describes RISM’s goals, projects, and organization. The new brochure has been updated for 2022 and includes new information on how to contribute to RISM. The brochure is...
30 August 2022
Antoine Reicha Rediscovered
We have received the following from Jana Franková and François-Pierre Goy: The works of the long undeservedly forgotten French composer of Bohemian origin, Antoine Reicha (1770–1836, also known as Anton Reicha and Antonín Rejcha), have aroused renewed interest in the past decade. To celebrate his 250th birthday, the Moravian Library...
4 August 2022
The Thematic Catalogue of the Music Collection of P. Barnabas Weiss
We have received the following from Zuzana Petrášková and Eliška Šedivá (National Library of the Czech Republic): The latest thematic catalogue in the series “Catalogus artis musicae in Bohemia et Moravia cultae” published to date is dedicated to a collection of music established during the course of the 19th century...
21 July 2022
"New" Keyboard Music by William Babell
We recently came across this article by Andrew Woolley concerning a collective manuscript in Bergamo (I-BGi XIV 8751 H 1, RISM ID no. 850014351): Andrew Woolley, “New light on William Babell’s development as a keyboard composer,” Early Music 46, no. 2 (May 2018): 251–270. Short title in RISM: WoolleyB 2018,...
14 June 2022
The 2021 Annual Report
The 2021 annual report for the RISM Editorial Center has now been published. You can read the report in its entirety on the RISM website. Here are some of the highlights: The year 2021 was still overshadowed by the COVID pandemic and the diverse social restrictions inevitably also hindered RISM...
21 April 2022
A concerto for a “trombone god”—finally, Ferdinand David’s Concertino op. 4 in Henle Urtext
The following is by Dominik Rahmer and was first published on the Henle blog in a slightly longer form. It is reprinted here with kind permission. The trombone is an instrument with a venerable though also chequered history. After its first great heyday in the Renaissance and early Baroque, it...
31 January 2022
