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Rediscovered: Unknown piano piece by Mozart discovered in Tyrol, Austria
During the ongoing work being done for the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM/International Inventory of Musical Sources), Dr. Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider came across a music book from around 1780 in Tyrol. This manuscript contains, among other titles, a...
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Rediscovered: Unknown Work by Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach Discovered
In the process of cataloging the manuscripts of Group IV in the Hessian Music Archive in Marburg (D-MGmi), a previously completely unknown pièce d'occasion by Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach came to light. The second-youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and the court Kapellmeister in Bückeburg...
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Library stocks: Processing Music Manuscripts Completed at the St. Boniface Abbey Library, Munich (D-Mb)
The abbot of the St. Boniface Abbey in Munich, RR Johannes Eckert, was presented with a catalog of the music manuscripts in his abbey library on January 20, 2012. This brought to a close the inventorying of manuscripts by Dr. Gottfried Heinz-Kronberger, from the RISM working group in...
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New publications: CD-ROM of series A/I: Individual prints 1600 to 1800 is published
We are delighted to announce that the CD-ROM of series A/I has appeared. For the first time the complete series – published between 1971 and 2003 in 14 volumes – is available as a database. For more information see the website of Bärenreiter-Verlag.
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Self-representation: New RISM Sigla Search on RISM.info
The RISM library sigla are now searchable on the RISM website. A new database was developed for this purpose and it supersedes the previous PDF publications. The initial inventory consists of 7,080 library sigla. The database is updated monthly. The search results lead users to individual entries...
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Self-representation: New RISM Working Group Founded in Seoul, South Korea
The Music Research Institute, College of Music at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea has begun to document and build a database of musical sources from Korea and East Asia thanks to a state subsidy. The research team (Director of Music Research Institute: Prof./Dr....
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Library stocks: Manuscripts from the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Liepāja (Latvia)
Within the framework of a project sponsored by the Baltic-German Academic Consortium in the Latvian port city of Liepāja, valuable music manuscripts from the second half of the 18th century were cataloged for RISM by a team of researchers from Germany and Latvia. The project involved a unique...
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Self-representation: Ferdinand Hiller @ RISM
An exhibit, a symposium and concerts celebrate the 200th birthday of the Frankfurt musician.
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Self-representation: Peter Grønland @ RISM
Everybody is talking about Franz Liszt’s 200th birthday this month. But it is not only him who has a celebration in October 2011. Peter Grønland, a Danish composer 50 years older than Liszt, is also observing a milestone birthday.
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