News archive from the RISM Switzerland
The Pult family's 18th-century music library
The Pult family’s 18th-century music library, rediscovered in 2023, has recently been added to the RISM catalogue. The music library was re-discovered by Mathias Gredig and Kurt Gritsch during the renovation of the family’s stately home in the Engadin village of Zuoz and is now housed in the Kulturarchiv Oberengadin,...
7 September 2026
Changes to the Board of the RISM Digital Center
On the occasion of the annual general meeting on 3 June 2026 at the Wesemlin Capuchin Monastery in Lucerne, two long-serving board members took their leave, Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen and Pio Pellizzari. Pio Pellizzari had been a member of the Executive Board since 1998 and, as a long-serving director...
24 June 2026
Two born-digital thematic catalogues
Two work catalogs, for composers Francesco Pollini and Luigi Cherubini, have recently been completed as born-digital publications. They supplement the growing number of digital versions of traditional thematic catalogs that can be accessed on the RISM Online search platform. These catalogs are directly linked to the database that collects and...
14 April 2026
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