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.
Digitisation of autographs and unique prints from the Music Library of the Bern Academy of the Arts
The library of the Bern Academy of the Arts (Hochschule der Künste Bern, CH-BEk) goes back to the library of the Bern Music Society (Berner Musikgesellschaft), which was founded in 1816. In 1858, the Music Society promoted the founding of the Bern Music School (Berner Musikschule, the forerunner of today’s...
14 August 2024
The 'Disjecta membra' project reunites musical prints in Lugano and London
The Biblioteca Salita dei frati in Lugano (CH-LUbsf), which, among other things, brings together the ancient collections of the libraries of the Ticino Capuchin monasteries, also holds a small number of historical music sources. One of these turned out to be a unique copy: the alto and basso continuo parts...
24 July 2024
Digitised sources from the ZHB Lucerne in Onstage
Within the digitisation projects of RISM Switzerland, various musical sources from the holdings of the Central and University Library Lucerne (ZHB) were digitised in 2022. One thousand concert programmes from the ZHB holdings have now been published on the Onstage platform. The project Onstage aims to record programme notes from...
28 September 2023
Lazzaro Valvasensi in Maienfeld
A valuable musical document is preserved in the private library of the Graubünden noble family Sprecher von Bernegg in Maienfeld. It is the only surviving copy of a Venetian music edition from the first half of the 17th century by the Friulian composer Lazzaro Valvasensi (1585-1661). As part of the...
24 May 2023
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
