News archive from the RISM Switzerland
Informationspool: Improved user experience
Thanks to the latest developments in the RISM software, the user experience of the project “Repertory of Swiss composers of the 19th century” was improved. The project aimed at digitising and publishing online ca. 250 sources of importance for Swiss musical output, mostly from the 19th century. They are kept...
29 November 2017
Frey-Grynäum: Publication of a pilot project on late medieval fragments
Together with the Institute for Musicology of the University of Basel, the Frey-Gryn Institute and Basel University Library, RISM Switzerland launched a pilot projet to catalogue musical fragments from the late Middle Ages. The Frey-Gryn library in Basel dates from 1747. Some of the parchment of its bindings was taken...
29 November 2017
75 Years Freunde Alter Musik Basel
For its 75th anniversary (1942-2017), the association Freunde Alter Musik Basel decided to publish its concert programmes on the OnStage platform of RISM Schweiz. The almost complete collection of all concert and season programmes was digitised and indexed by date, composer and performer. In addition, a full-text search is possible...
10 May 2017
Completion of the project OnStage: Conservatoire de Musique de Genève
In *September* 2016 the concert program collection of the library of the “Conservatoire de Musique de Genève” was published in the series RISM digital library. Thus, some 12,000 items were added to the On Stage database, which already documented the programs of the “Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne –...
5 May 2017
Benedictine convent of St. Andreas in Sarnen
RISM Switzerland is pleased to announce that the description of all sources from the historical music library of the St. Andreas convent in Sarnen have been published online in the database of the Swiss RISM Office. Thus, a total of around 10,000 new database entries are available for research and...
10 January 2017