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Le Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) est une organisation internationale à but non lucratif qui vise à documenter de manière exhaustive les sources musicales existantes dans le monde entier : manuscrits, musique imprimée, écrits sur la théorie musicale et livrets, que l’on trouve dans les bibliothèques, les archives, les églises, les écoles et les collections privées. Le RISM a été fondé à Paris en 1952 et est la plus grande et la seule organisation mondiale qui documente les sources musicales écrites. Le RISM enregistre ce qui existe et où l’on peut le trouver.
Upcoming events
IAML Deutschland conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 17-20 September 2024. Details here
Chercher par sigle pour les bibliothèques, archives et collections possédant des fonds musicaux historiques
Bibliotécaires, trouvez ici ce que le RISM vous offre
Tout sur Muscat, Le programme spécialisé du RISM pour le catalogage des sources musicales
International Women's Day: Women Composers in RISM
In 2017 we celebrated the International Women’s Day by publishing a list of all women composers found in the RISM database. Following a 2021 update, it is time to yet again publish a revised list to reflect RISM’s ever more complete coverage. The list that in 2017 included 800 names,...
New Website for RISM Cataloging Guidelines
The RISM Editorial Center announces the publication of the RISM Cataloging Guidelines on a dedicated website, guidelines.rism.info. The guidelines are RISM’s rules and procedures for describing historical musical sources, and are adapted for use in the cataloging program Muscat which is used by RISM contributors worldwide. As the the largest...
The Musical Public Domain in 2025
The Roaring Twenties have finally completely arrived! On 1 January 2025, works published in 1929 entered the public domain in the United States, making publications from the 1920s free to use, at least in the US. In law, the phrase “public domain” refers to works without copyright, usually because copyright...
The Warsaw Chopin Institute has acquired yet another Chopin autograph
The National Frédéric Chopin Institute (in Polish: Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, abbreviated as NIFC) has acquired a Chopin autograph from the collection of the late Rudolf F. Kallir (1895–1987). The purchase was made possible by the generous support of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The acquired source...
Goethe’s Muse and Co-Author: Marianne von Willemer
Our RISM A-Z series reaches letter W today and, as so often, we decide in favor of a lady, also with an eye to local history. Marianne von Willemer (born 20 November 1784, Linz (?) – died 6 December 1860, Frankfurt am Main) was an Austrian-born actress and dancer. After...
Upcoming events
IAML Deutschland conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 17-20 September 2024. Details here
Chercher par sigle pour les bibliothèques, archives et collections possédant des fonds musicaux historiques
Bibliotécaires, trouvez ici ce que le RISM vous offre
Tout sur Muscat, Le programme spécialisé du RISM pour le catalogage des sources musicales