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Herrnhut is World Heritage
On Friday, 26 July, Herrnhut became a UNESCO World Heritage Site! To be more precise, the settlements of the Moravian church in Herrnhut were added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list: Christiansfeld in Denmark has been on the list since 2015, and now Gracehill in Northern Ireland, Bethlehem in Pennsylvania, and...
29 July 2024 – In the news
Perspectives on Cataloging Printed Music: Meeting with the German RISM Offices
In mid-May 2024, the staff of the Munich and Dresden RISM offices came together for a meeting in Dresden. The main topic of several discussions and workshops was exploring new options when cataloging printed music. One of the points of discussion, for example, was finding tools to describe images and...
28 May 2024 – New at RISM
In memoriam Gertraut Haberkamp (29 January 1937 – 5 November 2023)
On the same day as Dr. Harald Heckmann, long-time president of RISM, Dr. Gertraut Haberkamp, who stood for RISM’s work like few others and was also a leading authority on the sources of the Viennese Classics, passed away in Munich. Gertraut Haberkamp was born in Bochum, the middle of five...
30 November 2023 – In memoriam
Anniversary Symposium of RISM Germany
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of RISM’s German working group, a symposium will be held on November 21 and 22 at the Bavarian State Library in Munich. The event bears the title “Musical Sources of the 19th Century in Germany: Challenges and Opportunities” and offers...
19 October 2023 – Events
70 Jahre RISM an der BSB
Die Musikhandschriften des «Répertoire International des Sources Musicales» an der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek In der Reihe “Bibliothek und Wissenschaft”, 55. Band (2022), der mit dem Titel “Faszination (Buch-) Handschriften im Jahr 2022” im Harrassowitz Verlag Wiesbaden von Claudia Fabian herausgegeben wurde, erschien auf S. 121-134 von Gottfried Heinz-Kronberger der Artikel “Die...
18 January 2023 – New publications
Call for Papers: Musical Sources of the 19th Century in Germany: Challenges and Opportunities
Symposium of the RISM Working Group Germany e.V. at the Bavarian State Library Munich, November 21, 2023 Deadline: February 15, 2023 The first German working group of RISM started its cataloging activities 70 years ago, and today the two groups in Munich and Dresden can rightly be considered as the...
16 January 2023 – Events
Newly discovered collection from Sennfeld (Franconia) to be cataloged
Jörg Wöltche (Church Music Director, Deanery of Schweinfurt) has committed himself to cataloging for RISM a collection of handwritten music material dating between 1788 and 1812 that was discovered in 2018. The trove of 149 church cantatas and Lutheran masses for Protestant church services as well as 31 motets comprises...
24 February 2022 – Rediscovered
Insights into the Music Collection of Duchess Luise Friederike of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
We have received the following from Miriam Roner (RISM Germany, Dresden office): February 3, 2022 marked the 300th birthday of Luise Friederike, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. For RISM Germany, this major birthday is a welcome opportunity to put a special emphasis on cataloging her music collection. If she were alive, she...
10 February 2022 – Rediscovered
RIdIM Germany
The new website of RIdIM Germany (Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale) launched on 26 April 2021 and can be found at http://ridim.musiconn.de. Prior to this, as part of the second project phase of the DFG-funded Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Musikwissenschaft, the design and functionality of the RIdIM website and the web-based RIdIM database...
2 June 2021 – In the news
Sensationeller Fund
Im Rahmen der Sichtung von Fragmenten im Bayerischen Hauptstaatsarchiv wurde eine aufregende Entdeckung gemacht. Es ist nicht die erste Blüte, die aus diesem Fundus der Fragmentensammlung herausragt. 2018 wurden schon Teile einer Sonate für zwei Violinen und Basso Continuo von Johann Caspar Teubner aus dem Jahr 1695 gefunden (BayHStA, Fragmentensammlung...
1 March 2021 – Library collections
