News archive – RISM A-Z
Christian Ignatius Latrobe (February 12, 1758 – May 6, 1836)
This is our last entry in our series RISM A–Z for the year, and with this entry we’ve come nearly halfway through the alphabet. Christian Ignatius Latrobe was born in the Moravian settlement in Fulneck, England and traveled to Niesky in Saxony in 1771 to attend the Moravian school there....
15 December 2016
Sara Levy
This entry in our series RISM A–Z comes to us from Julia Neumann, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Gifted harpsichordist, avid collector of musical sources, an early appreciator of Bach, Berlin salonnière, and not least of all great-aunt of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – the letter L takes us today...
29 September 2016
The House of Kinsky
This entry in the series RISM A–Z brings us to Kinsky, a noble family that has a long history of ties to music. If you say the name Kinsky today, fans of music history might first think of Ferdinand Johannes Nepomuk Joseph Fürst Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, or Ferdinand...
29 August 2016
Margarethe Susanna Kayser: "The Kayserin"
To clear up any confusion right off the bat: No, Margarethe Susanna Kayser was not the wife of the composer Reinhard Keiser, even if the usual spelling variations from the time (Keiser, Keyser, Kaiser, and Kayser) lead one to suspect as much. Born in 1690 as the daughter of the...
6 July 2016
Joseph Jackson (1769-1808)
Our occasional series RISM A–Z brings us to the letter J. Let’s turn our eyes to the island of Jamaica and the composer and missionary Joseph Jackson (1769-1808). Joseph Jackson is one of the very few people in the RISM online catalog who has connections with Jamaica. The son of...
27 June 2016
Joo Su-won (朱壽元, 1910 - 2003)
Our occasional series RISM A–Z brings you the following guest post by JeongYoun Chang of RISM South Korea. Joo Su-won was born in Changwon, located in the southern part of South Korea. She graduated from Chungshin Girls’ School (貞信女學校) and Ewha College (梨花女子專門學校), and had been an English teacher at...
9 May 2016
Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704)
Last month we discussed Italian composer Giacomo Insanguine (1728-1795) in our series RISM A–Z, and today we stay in Italy but step 100 years back to look at composer and nun Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704). Much is still unknown about her life. At the young age of sixteen, she joined the...
7 April 2016
Giacomo Insanguine (1728-1795)
“Maestro delle pezze” (Maestro of patchwork) is the not-so-flattering judgment delivered by Giovanni Paisiello about the tendency of Giacomo Insanguine (1728-1795) to (unadeptly) “patch up” the works of other composers by inserting his own compositions. And even though Paisiello’s razor-sharp tongue was well known, his verdict about Insanguine went unchallenged...
17 March 2016
Fanny Hensel (1805-1847)
The previous entry in the series RISM A–Z was on Adolph von Henselt so today we bring you a name that sounds similar: Fanny Hensel (1805-1847). In the RISM database there are over 180 sources for Hensel, the vast majority of them being autograph manuscripts that are held by the...
5 November 2015
Adolph von Henselt (1814-1889)
Today’s installment of our series RISM A–Z takes us to letter H. The following post about composer Adolph von Henselt (1814-1889) is adapted from a text by Natalia Keil-Senserowa, author of Adolph von Henselt. Ein Leben für die Klavierpädagogik in Rußland and has been printed with kind permission. The young...
23 July 2015
