RISM Switzerland dataset in RISM Online
The RISM Switzerland records music manuscripts and printed musical sources in Swiss libraries and archives according to international scientific standards. It thus contributes in an essential way to the conservation of cultural assets in music in Switzerland. The inventoried collections are accessible to musical performers as well as to musicological research worldwide via internet.
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
Symphonies by Dominik Stalder reconstructed thanks to the ‘Disjecta membra’ project
After attending the Collegium Helveticum seminar in Milan, Lucerne-born Dominik Stalder (1725–1765) enjoyed a remarkable international career for a Swiss composer of his time, which took him to Mainz, London and Paris. In the French capital, he published several collections of symphonies that reveal the influence of the Milanese masters....
19 November 2025
