Musical discoveries from English local archives

The previous RISM news item introduced the project Music, Heritage, Place: Unlocking the Musical Collections of England’s County Record Offices, led by Royal Holloway, University of London. This article introduces some of the sources recently discovered or catalogued in the project, to show the range of musical heritage found in...

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Music from English local archives in RISM

The following guest post is by Stephen Rose (Head of Music Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK): Until recently, RISM’s records for the United Kingdom have focused on the holdings of major research libraries such as the British Library, Cambridge University Library and Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Now a richer...

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The New Köchel Catalog

This morning the long-awaited new edition of the Köchel Catalog was presented to the public in the Great Hall of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg. The new edition was compiled by Neal Zaslaw, Professor at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York), and meticulously prepared for printing by the research team...

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A Visit to the André Archive in Offenbach

You may have already seen that this year marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of Johann André’s publishing house, which started in Offenbach in 1774. Though no longer publishing, the venerable business still exists and its historical archive has remained in the André family’s hands this whole time. In...

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The Music Manuscripts of the Music Collection of the Austrian National Library in RISM

We have received the following from Christa Traunsteiner, deputy head of the Music Collection of the Austrian National Library. Since last year, RISM users have had access to a large part of the descriptions of the manuscripts kept in the Department of Music of the Austrian National Library. Specifically, the...

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