Funding for the German RISM offices by the Union of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, under the leadership of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, is currently coming to an end.
The Dresden office will remain active until the end of 2026. The Munich office will be restructured in 2026 and will gradually take over the tasks of the Editorial Centre in the newly created RISM Editorial Network. The staff in Munich will be available to the international RISM community for advice on sources and source-related questions. The SLUB Dresden and the SBB Berlin will take on further tasks within the framework of the Editorial Network.
The RIdIM database will continue to be maintained by the Bavarian State Library.
News
Rostock music collection catalogued in RISM
In December 2020, the cataloguing of the music collection of the Rostock University Library in RISM began – exactly five years later, in December 2025, it was completed. The cataloguing was carried out in three work packages at the RISM office in Dresden. The core of the Rostock music collection,...
17 December 2025 – Library collections
The East German RISM Working Group Germany celebrates its 70th anniversary
70 years of the East German Working Group of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) – this means looking back on international understanding after the Second World War, on East-West German cooperation and reunification, and, last but not least, on 70 years of technical development. RISM was founded after...
14 November 2025 – New at RISM
Conference of the RISM Working Group Germany "Music Prints and Digital Transformation"
The RISM Working Group Germany, in collaboration with the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB), is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on 13 and 14 November 2025. Under the title “Music Prints and Digital Transformation: Perspectives on Documentation, Representation and Interconnectivity”, experts from the fields of musicology, book studies, information...
29 September 2025 – New at RISM
Card indexes of music prints from the RISM offices in Munich and Dresden digitised
The two German offices of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales in Dresden and Munich hold extensive card indexes from the first decades of their activities. The card index of series A/I (“Music prints before 1800”) documents the data collected on music prints owned by institutions in Germany during the...
23 September 2025 – New at RISM
Unknown Beethoven sketch leaf acquired by the SLUB Dresden
The Saxon State and University Library (SLUB) has acquired a privately owned Beethoven sketch leaf previously unknown to scholars. It forms part of a small collection that once belonged to the Saxon music teacher Carl Otto Böhme (1807-1874). The Beethoven autograph (D-Dl Mus.4193-T-608) contains sketches for the Piano Sonata op....
24 January 2025 – Library collections