The Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) - International Inventory of Musical Sources - is an international, non-profit organization that aims to comprehensively document extant musical sources worldwide: manuscripts, printed music editions, writings on music theory, and libretti that are found in libraries, archives, churches, schools, and private collections. RISM’s over 1.5 million records can be searched at no cost through the RISM Catalog and RISM Online. RISM was founded in Paris in 1952 and is the largest and only global organization that documents written musical sources. RISM records what exists and where it can be found.

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Eliza Hamilton Dunlop and Early Music Printing in Australia

Anonymous pieces present their own set of bibliographic challenges, and recently we stumbled upon one song with a trio of unknowns: no composer, an unidentified poet, and an unfamiliar publisher. The song was “The Irish volunteers,” published in Sydney, Australia (RISM ID no. 990071461; RISM Online | RISM Catalog). Given...

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New Catalog of Johann Adolf Hasse's Instrumental Works

Wolfgang Hochstein – familiar to connoisseurs of 18th-century music as the author of the standard catalog of Niccolò Jommelli’s sacred compositions – has created yet another indispensable and long-overdue reference work: a thematic catalog of the instrumental works attributed to Johann Adolf Hasse (Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der unter dem Namen von...

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Networks of Composers in RISM B/I Anthologies

The following text provides a short summary of the paper “The Early Modern Music Club. A Social Network Analysis of RISM B/I Anthologies” presented at this year’s MedRen conference (Warsaw University, 6–10 July 2026). The authors would like to thank the MedRen 2026 organizers for a cleverly assembled, well-moderated, and...

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The new RISM Consortium

Since its foundation in 1952, the structure of RISM has seen several adjustments, but the past few years proved especially eventful in this regard. In 2021 the Swiss working group was reorganized as a Digital Center, and as such became the closest partner of the long-standing Editorial Center (Zentralredaktion). The...

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Joint Workshop of the Four "R-Projects" in Budapest

On 17–18 September 2026, Budapest was home to a workshop offering students of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music a chance to learn more about the four so-called ‘R-projects’: RISM, RILM, RIdIM, and RIPM. Each of the ‘Rs’ were set up several decades ago under the auspices of the International...

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