News archive – RISM A-Z
Many Qs
Normally in our series RISM A–Z we focus on just one person at a time. Since there is little information about the only woman composer in RISM whose last name begins with Q (Lucia Quiciani), we will throw the spotlight on several women: The Italian composer Lucia Quiciani was a...
8 October 2018
Philippe Quinault (1635-1688)
Our occasional series RISM A–Z brings us to the letter Q. Christoph Willibald Gluck, Carl Heinrich Graun, Georg Friedrich Händel, Jean-Baptiste Lully, and Tommaso Traetta are some composers associated with the librettist Philippe Quinault (baptized 5 June 1635, Paris – 26 November 1688, Paris). The son of a baker, Quinault...
7 June 2018
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
We continue our series RISM A–Z with Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706). Organists certainly do not need convincing that Johann Pachelbel wrote more than just the Canon in D! Jean M. Perreault breaks down the numbers like this in his Thematic Catalogue of the Musical Works of Johann Pachelbel: Of the 528...
18 January 2018
Elena Pozza-Sorgo (1784 – 1865)
The series RISM A–Z brings us to the letter P with this post by Vjera Katalinić and Lucija Konfic (RISM Croatia): Elena Pozza-Sorgo (Jelena Pucić-Sorkočević, born Elena Luisa Ragnina, married to Niccolò Luciano di Pozza-Sorgo [Nikola Lukin Pucić-Sorkočević]; 1784 – 1865) was a member of a noble family from Dubrovnik....
17 October 2017
Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky (1803-1869) and Music
Today we are continuing our Russian Week (see also the post from Monday about John Field in St. Petersburg) with letter O of the series RISM A–Z. The spotlight is on a prominent figure of Russian music and cultural life in the nineteenth century. Author, philosopher, composer, copyist, music critic,...
14 September 2017
Eva Judd O’Meara: A Music Librarian in a New Profession
The series RISM A–Z brings us to the letter O, which today stands for Eva Judd O’Meara. Miss O’Meara is the first music librarian that features in our series. Richard Boursy, archivist at the Gilmore Music Library, Yale University, tells us about the life and career of someone who was...
13 July 2017
Johann Martin Friedrich Nisle (1780-after 1861)
Our series RISM A–Z is moving right along, and here is the second entry for letter N. Anyone who looks for Johann Martin Friedrich Nisle in music encyclopedias will first come across the alternative first names Jean (Frédéric) and Giovanni. This is in fact an indication that the horn player...
19 June 2017
Hester Needler
We’ve reached the halfway point in our series RISM A–Z. We’ll start the second half of the series with the letter N, which today stands for Hester Needler. Not much is known about Needler, but she is the composer of a collection of 6 anthems in the RISM online catalog...
1 June 2017
Karl Marx (1897-1985)
Music researchers of the world, unite! Today in our series RISM A–Z we’re going to talk about Karl Marx–that’s right, the Bavarian composer and choral conductor!* Our Karl Marx was born in 1897 in Munich, meaning he was rife for military service when World War I broke out. He was...
6 March 2017
Hélène-Antoinette-Marie de Montgeroult (1764-1836)
Our series RISM A–Z brings us to the letter M. The French composer and pianist Hélène de Montgeroult (1764 Lyon – 1836 Florence) was a pupil of Jan Ladislav Dussek and Muzio Clementi. She did not perform publicly as a pianist but was active in salons. In 1784, Hélène de...
16 February 2017
