News archive from the RISM Switzerland
First recording of nine Renaissance pieces
In December 2025, the Basel Forum for Early Music ReRenaissance released the album Lost & Found: Rediscovered Treasures of the German Renaissance, produced in collaboration with the RISM Digital Centre. This is the first recording of nine compositions from the early 16th century that were long considered incomplete. These compositions...
27 January 2026
Letters of musical interest from Sankt Urban monastery
A new volume has just been added to the d-lib series (RISM digital library): the correspondence of the former Cistercian monastery of Sankt Urban, near Lucerne, relating to papers of musical topics, transcribed by Luigi Collarile and Claudio Bacciagaluppi. It consists of sixty letters dating from the beginning of the...
2 December 2025
Symphonies by Dominik Stalder reconstructed thanks to the ‘Disjecta membra’ project
After attending the Collegium Helveticum seminar in Milan, Lucerne-born Dominik Stalder (1725–1765) enjoyed a remarkable international career for a Swiss composer of his time, which took him to Mainz, London and Paris. In the French capital, he published several collections of symphonies that reveal the influence of the Milanese masters....
19 November 2025
Musical Collection of the Musicological Institute of Fribourg has been catalogued and made public
Between June 2022 and July 2025, the RISM Digital Center completed the cataloguing and inventorying the historical music collection from the Departement of Musicology in Fribourg. Donated to the BCU several years ago, this valuable collection offers unique insights into Switzerland’s oldest academic institute for musicology – founded in 1893...
8 September 2025
Digitisation of unique and rare examples of printed editions from the music library of the Benedictine monastery in Engelberg
The music library of the Benedictine monastery in Engelberg (CH-EN) includes music sources mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries, after the fire that destroyed the complex in 1729, in use in the monastery itself and in the abbey school (Stiftsschule). Besides manuscripts by Benedictine composers, the library also contains...
12 June 2025