News archive from the RISM Switzerland
Pirateria musicale
In the series RISM d-lib a valuable publication has been put online for anyone interested in ninteenth-century music sources: the rich study by Florian Bassani entitled “La pirateria musicale in Ticino durante il Risorgimento: Studi e documenti sulle attività clandestine degli editori Ricordi e Lucca in territorio svizzero” (“Music Piracy...
11 July 2022
Concert at the Engadin festival
The ensemble “La Pedrina”, conducted by Francesco Saverio Pedrini, will once again perform in concert the programme from the last CD produced by RISM Switzerland: “Il Pastor fido”, with madrigals by Luca Marenzio from a source preserved in Zuoz. The concert, already programmed for October 2020 and cancelled due to...
13 July 2021
« 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