News archive – Rediscovered
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
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
Newly discovered autograph of the cantata "Die Fischerin" by Engelbert Humperdinck
An autograph manuscript by Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) has been discovered in the library collections of the Universität der Künste in Berlin: the dramatic cantata Die Fischerin for three solo voices and orchestra with words by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which previously had only been known in fragments. The autograph manuscript,...
9 April 2019
Verschollen geglaubtes Oratorium von Gottlob Harrer in Nürtingen aufgefunden
Weniger als fünf Jahre, von seinem Amtsantritt am 2. Oktober 1750 bis zu seinem Tod am 9. Juli 1755, übte Gottlob Harrer, geboren am 8. Mai 1703 in Görlitz, als direkter Nachfolger Johann Sebastian Bachs das Amt des Thomaskantors aus. Trotzdem kommt Harrer ein gewisser Anteil zu, das Leipziger Bürgertum...
31 July 2018
"Mein Herz ist viel zu schwach" – A Newly Discovered Aria by Georg Philipp Telemann
We have received the following from Helmut Lauterwasser (RISM Germany, Munich): In 2017, numerous concerts and other events marked the 250th anniversary of Georg Philipp Telemann’s death, especially in the places where he lived and worked. In CONCERTO magazine’s first issue of 2018, there is an article about a previously...
19 February 2018
Unknown lieder by Dutch composer Anna Merkje Cramer discovered in Cologne
In the library of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne (D-KNh), nine previously unknown lieder by the Dutch composer Anna Merkje Cramer (1873-1968) were recently identified. They had been cataloged under the wrong name due to a misreading. Cramer was a pupil of Wilhelm Berger, with whom she...
3 April 2014
Bisher nicht bekannte Komposition Johann Christoph Friedrich Bachs im Hessischen Musikarchiv Marburg entdeckt
Bisher nicht bekannte Komposition Johann Christoph Friedrich Bachs im Hessischen Musikarchiv Marburg entdeckt Ausschnitt aus Johann Christoph Friedrich Bachs “Rundgesang” Bei den Katalogisierungsarbeiten der Handschriftengruppe IV im Hessischen Musikarchiv (D-MGmi) trat eine bislang völlig unbekannte Gelegenheitskomposition von Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach zutage. Der in Bückeburg als Hofkapellmeister tätige zweitjüngste Sohn...
21 February 2012
Cantatas from Blankenburg (Harz) in the Wolfenbüttel regional church archives
It is certainly not among the main tasks of a church archive to collect old music prints and manuscripts. However, a recently rediscovered manuscript collection containing church cantatas shows how diverse these historical documents and sources are. The collection, dating from around 1800, was found in the regional church archives...
28 June 2011
Johannes Brahms' früheste erhaltene Kompositionen im Stadtarchiv Celle entdeckt
Im Zuge der Katalogisierung der Musikhandschriften des Stadtarchivs Celle (D-CEsa) durch die RISM Arbeitsgruppe Deutschland, Arbeitsstelle an der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München, im Februar 2010 zwei bisher nicht bekannte Frühwerke von Johannes Brahms entdeckt. Die Abschriften der beiden Männerchöre auf Texte von Emanuel Geibel und Wilhelm Müller befinden sich im...
24 June 2010
