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.
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
Cataloguing the collection of Caroline Boissier-Butini (1786-1836) at the Bibliothèque de Genève
The Geneva composer Caroline Boissier-Butini (1786-1836) is an exceptional figure in the Swiss musical landscape. Thanks to the opportunities afforded by her upper-class origins, she had the freedom to pursue her talents and composed some thirty works, most of them with, or for, piano, among them six piano concertos. She...
1 May 2023
Cataloguing project in the Provincial Archives of the Swiss Capuchins
Since the summer of 2022, the Swiss RISM Centre has been cataloguing the music collection from the Provincial Archives of the Swiss Capuchins in the Wesemlin Monastery in Lucerne. This is the first time that the holdings of a Capuchin monastery have been systematically catalogued. Although the music tradition of...
26 January 2023
Muscial prints at the monastery Einsiedeln from Karl Martin Fidel von Roll (1710-1784)
In the 1760s and 1770s, Karl Martin Fidel von Roll (1710-1784), the chaplain of the Benedictine convent of Seedorf in the canton of Uri, bought more than 30 music prints and donated them to the convent choir “zu Eüffnung des göttlichen Lobs”. All of these prints are now kept in...
30 November 2022
