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Events: No Chance for Mozart: Prince-Archbishop Hieronymus Colloredo and the Musicians of his Court
International Musicology Symposium, March 4-6, 2011
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Self-representation: Francesco Feo @ RISM
Who knows Francesco Feo (1691-1761)? He is one of many musicians whose lives will be celebrated this year, as January 28 is the 250th anniversary of his death. Feo is a distinguished representative of the Neapolitan school from the first half of the 18th century. His name is often dropped in...
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Self-representation: Season's Greetings
The RISM Zentralredaktion wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We invite you to flip through our large selection of predominantly unfamiliar Christmas music sources from our online catalogue.
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Events: Tyrolean Christmas Concert 18-19 December 2010
A Christmas concert with music from the archives of the Franciscan Monastery Reutte/Tyrol. The 22nd Tyrolean Christmas Concert will again be rooted in the idea of recreating a mood-filled Midnight Mass in 19th-century style utilizing Christmas music from Tyrol. The focus is on the lovely...
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Self-representation: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach @ RISM
Misjudged, underappreciated, a failure, enfant terrible, the most abused composer: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784) has been characterized again and again by these attributes. His 300th birthday has been celebrated in recent months in a variety of ways. The Bach Museum in Leipzig presented the...
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Self-representation: Luigi Cherubini @ RISM
This year marks the 250th birthday of Luigi Cherubini (14 September 1760, Florence – 15 March 1842, Paris). Luigi Cherubini was admired by his contemporaries, but it is rare nowadays to find his works on concert programmes or among the repertoires of the world’s opera houses. Cherubini dominated...
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New publications: The congress report is ready!
In March 2002, RISM celebrated 50 years of existence with a congress in Frankfurt entitled “Academic and Technical Challenges of Musicological Source Research in an International Framework”. Participants from 23 countries took part in numerous lectures and discussions on topics including the work...
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Press reviews: New online music catalogue: over 700,000 entries
The new catalogue of the International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) provides insight into treasures of music history largely inaccessible until now.
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Library stocks: The Royal Library of Belgium (Brussels) acquires the music collection of the Belgian jazz specialist Marc Danval
In March 2010, the Music Division of the Royal Library of Belgium had the good fortune to acquire the private music collection of the Brussels jazz specialist Marc Danval (b. 1937). This collection contains more than 12,000 78 rpm, 33 rpm and 45 rpm LPs and 800 books about jazz and popular music...
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Rediscovered: Two previously unknown works by Johannes Brahms discovered
Two previously unknown early works by Johannes Brahms were discovered in February 2010 while the RISM working group based at the Bavarian State Library in Munich were cataloguing the music manuscripts of the municipal archives of Celle (D-CEsa).
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