News archive – Rediscovered
Bessie Lim, the First Woman Musician of Korea and her Newly Discovered Work
We have received the following from Dr. JeongYoun Chang (RISM South Korea): Bessie Lim (林培世, 1897-1999) was a talented woman musician in early modern Korea. She made lots of stage appearances as a soprano and composed “Temperance Song” (금주가/禁酒歌, 1918; RISM ID no. 1001064244) when it was rare to see...
18 April 2019
Newly discovered autograph of the cantata "Die Fischerin" by Engelbert Humperdinck
We have received the following from Gottfried Heinz-Kronberger (RISM Germany): An autograph manuscript by Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) has been discovered in the library collections of the Universität der Künste in Berlin: the dramatic cantata Die Fischerin for three solo voices and orchestra with words by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which...
11 April 2019
"Mein Herz ist viel zu schwach" – A Newly Discovered Aria by Georg Philipp Telemann
We have received the following from Helmut Lauterwasser (RISM Germany, Munich): In 2017, numerous concerts and other events marked the 250th anniversary of Georg Philipp Telemann’s death, especially in the places where he lived and worked. In CONCERTO magazine’s first issue of 2018, there is an article about a previously...
19 February 2018
Earliest Manuscript Source of Lasso Requiem Found in Augsburg
Recently we were browsing the social media site academia.edu and came across a review by Barbara Eichner of Tobias Rimek’s book Das mehrstimmige Repertoire der Benediktinerabtei St. Ulrich und Afra in Augsburg (1549–1632) (Stuttgart: Carus, 2015; the review originally appeared in Jahrbuch des Vereins für Augsburger Bistumsgeschichte [2016]). Eichner’s review...
5 October 2017
New Findings on French Polyphonic Masses (1587-1626)
The following is a guest post by Laurent Guillo: In November 2016, a volume gathering 26 music prints published by the Ballard workshop in Paris between 1587 and 1626 was discovered in the early books collection of the Bibliothèque de Fels (Institut catholique de Paris; RISM siglum: F-Pic). At the...
15 May 2017
Yet another misattributed (and rediscovered) Vivaldi work in Dresden
The following is a guest post by Michael Talbot (University of Liverpool, Department of Music, Emeritus): Regular Dresden-watchers will be aware of the ambitious project “Die Notenbestände der Dresdner Hofkirche und der Königlichen Privat-Musikaliensammlung aus der Zeit der sächsisch-polnischen Union” supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), which was brought to...
25 April 2017
Historical Music Collection Discovered in a Linz School (Austria)
We have received the following from Ikarus Kaiser (RISM Austria): At a secondary school in Linz, Austria (Bundesrealgymnasium Linz, Fadingerstraße), a historical music collection was discovered that dates from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This Linz Realschule is steeped in tradition, though an emphasis on a humanities-centered education...
3 April 2017
A New Woman Composer is Born
We received the following from Nina Eichholz. It originally appeared on the website Hofmusik in Dresden and is published with kind permission. In the course of the project Court Church and Royal Private Music Collection at the SLUB Dresden, the anonymous aria “Per costume o mio bel Nume” (D-Dl Mus.1-F-49,12-12;...
30 January 2017
A Previously Unknown Lute Tablature
We have received the following from Dieter Kirsch: It doesn’t happen too often nowadays for objects to turn up in public collections that have so far managed to elude researchers. Such a case will be described below. Among the music manuscripts housed at the Stadtbibliothek Braunschweig (D-BSstb), which are currently...
27 January 2017
Karl Friedrich Abel Manuscripts Found in Poland
We have received the following from Sonia Wronkowska of RISM Poland: Two new sources for works by Karl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787) have recently been found by Sonia Wronkowska in Poland, in the library of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (PL-Pu), originating from the Maltzan family palace in Milicz (formerly...
19 January 2017
