News archive from the RISM Switzerland
« The voice of angels », 19 may 2021 in the church of Montorge
Immerse yourself in the rich musical world of the Capuchin nuns of Montorge from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 19th century. The lecture on the musical life of the nuns is followed by a concert of sacred music for 4 voices and organ with compositions...
3 June 2021
Parstorffer's inventory (1653) now online
In 1653 Paul Parstorffer, bookseller in Munich specialized in the trade of music editions, published an ‘inventory of all music works’ («Indice di tutte le Opere di Musica») available in his shop. No copies of this catalogue are preserved today. However, Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748) employed it as bibliographic source...
8 March 2021
OnStage
A few weeks ago, OnStage, the portal for digitised documents on musical performances (so-called performance ephemera, such as concert programmes and announcements), added a new collection. It is a selection of about 2,300 documents (out of 20,000) from La Musicale de la Bibliothèque de Genève, dating from 1861 to 1945....
3 February 2021
Concerts
The ensemble “La Pedrina”, conducted by Francesco Saverio Pedrini, will once again perform in two concerts with the programme from the last CD produced by RISM Switzerland: “Il Pastor fido dei Grigioni”, with madrigals by Luca Marenzio from a source preserved in Zuoz. The concerts will take place on 24...
1 October 2020
Completion of the pilot phase in the D-MUS project
With the publication of about 110 documents from the Swiss National Library in Bern (Nationalbibliothek, NB), the pilot phase of the D-MUS project is now coming to an end. Unique music sources from Switzerland will be digitised and published in the online catalogue. The sources consist of select autograph manuscripts,...
12 June 2020