News archive – New publications
The Dukes of Arenberg and Music in the Eighteenth Century: The Story of a Music Collection
Our colleague Marie Cornaz from RISM Belgium has recently published a revised and expanded edition of her Les ducs d’Arenberg et la musique au XVIIIesiècle. Histoire d’une collection musicale and it is available for the first time in English: Marie Cornaz, The Dukes of Arenberg and Music in the Eighteenth...
11 February 2016
Symphonic music in Great Britain
A new book crossed our desks recently: Jürgen Schaarwächter. Two Centuries of British Symphonism from the Beginnings to 1945: A Preliminary Survey. Hildesheim: Georg-Olms-Verlag, 2015. 2 volumes, 1201 p. ISBN: 978-3-487-15227-1 This book is a comprehensive survey of symphonic music in Great Britain and serves to dispel any remaining myths...
30 November 2015
The Musical Couple Maddalena Lombardini and Lodovico Sirmen
Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818) grew up in Venice’s Ospedale dei Mendicanti and was a composer, violinist, and cellist. In 1759, she took violin lessons from Giuseppe Tartini, and Ferdinando Bertoni taught her in composition. In 1768, Maddalena went on tour with her husband Lodovico Sirmen (1738-1812), who was also a...
26 November 2015
New Volume in RISM's Series B: Balinese Palm-Leaf Manuscripts
RISM announces the newest volume in its publication series B, which presents bibliographies of musical sources organized by topic: Tilman Seebass, Catalogue raisonné of the Balinese Palm-Leaf Manuscripts with Music Notation. RISM B/XVI. Munich: Henle, 2015. 309 p. ISBN 978-3-87328-155-4 The sixteenth volume in series B, RISM’s first ethnomusicological publication,...
29 October 2015
New CD of Music for Johann Konrad Wörle's Organs
This announcement has come to us from Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider of RISM Landesleitung Tirol-Südtirol & OFM Austria: Premieres of new sounds: Presenting music from the Biblioteca dell’Accademia nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana in Rome (I-Rli), the Biblioteca nazionale centrale in Rome (I-Rn), and the Santini-Bibliothek in Münster (D-MÜs) on an organ...
22 October 2015
Bartók Complete Critical Edition launched
This news originally appeared on the website of the G. Henle Verlag (whose CEO, Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, is also the RISM president) and are reprinting it with kind permission. RISM has just a handful of works by Bartók in the RISM database. 26 September 2015 was the 70th anniversary of Béla...
1 October 2015
The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (EMIR)
New on our bookshelves is: Harry White and Barra Boydell, eds. The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2013. ISBN: 9781906359782 This is a long-awaited two-volume set that covers all aspects of Irish music. According to the publisher’s website, EMIR is “the first comprehensive attempt to...
24 September 2015
Giuseppe Corsi: New Catalog of Works Cited in RISM
Each year, numerous scholarly books, editions, and catalogs of works are published. Many foreign prints or publications from smaller publishers are not acquired by libraries. Not every publication gets the recognition that it really deserves. Which made us all the more happy to receive a book tip from Giovanni Tribuzio,...
27 August 2015
New RISM Brochure Now Available
A new version of the RISM brochure is now available. RISM: An Overview is a 14-page, full-color brochure in English and German that describes RISM’s goals, projects, and organization. It is available free of charge to anyone who is interested. The brochure is available as a PDF on our Publications...
8 June 2015
The 2014 Annual Report
The annual report for 2014 has been posted to the RISM website. Did you know that thanks to the hard work of our colleagues–in over 35 countries around the world–there are over 880,000 records in the online database? Other highlights from 2014: The CD-ROM data for series A/I (Einzeldrucke vor...
5 March 2015
