News archive from the RISM Switzerland
Digitised sources from the ZHB Lucerne
Within the digitisation projects “Digital Music Unica in Switzerland” and “Disjecta membra”, a number of musical sources from the holdings of the Central and University Library of Lucerne were digitised in 2022. Around fifty music autographs and unique music prints are now online. Among these sources are works that are...
24 May 2023
Cataloguing the collection of Caroline Boissier-Butini (1786-1836) at the Bibliothèque de Genève
The Geneva composer Caroline Boissier-Butini (1786-1836) is an exceptional figure in the Swiss musical landscape. Thanks to the opportunities afforded by her upper-class origins, she had the freedom to pursue her talents and composed some thirty works, most of them with, or for, piano, among them six piano concertos. She...
1 May 2023
Cataloguing project in the Provincial Archives of the Swiss Capuchins
Since the summer of 2022, the Swiss RISM Centre has been cataloguing the music collection from the Provincial Archives of the Swiss Capuchins in the Wesemlin Monastery in Lucerne. This is the first time that the holdings of a Capuchin monastery have been systematically catalogued. Although the music tradition of...
26 January 2023
Muscial prints at the monastery Einsiedeln from Karl Martin Fidel von Roll (1710-1784)
In the 1760s and 1770s, Karl Martin Fidel von Roll (1710-1784), the chaplain of the Benedictine convent of Seedorf in the canton of Uri, bought more than 30 music prints and donated them to the convent choir “zu Eüffnung des göttlichen Lobs”. All of these prints are now kept in...
30 November 2022
Continued collaboration with the BCU Fribourg
At the end of June 2022, a second collaboration between the RISM Digital Center and BCU Fribourg started. The BCU Fribourg has now held for several years the (non-)musical collection of the Musicological Institute of Fribourg, the oldest scientific music institute in Switzerland. This collection will be catalogued and inventoried...
30 November 2022