Bernard Huys In Memoriam

We have received the following from Marie Cornaz (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique - Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België): It is with sadness that we learned of the death on 12 October 2024 of our Belgian colleague and friend Bernard Huys (1934-2024), who served as IAML Vice-President from 1986 to 1989. He...

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Microfilms? Microfilms! 70 Years of the German Archive of Music History

On 1 October 1954 the Musikgeschichtliche Kommission, a free association of renowned musicologists and music librarians, laid the foundation stone for the German Archive of Music History (Deutsches Musikgeschichtliches Archiv, DMgA), which has been located in Kassel since its founding. With an eye to the substantial changes caused by the...

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Manuscript found in New York

The following article by Artur Szklener originally appeared on the website of The Frederik Chopin Institut and is published here with kind permission. On the 27th October, The New York Times reported on an unknown manuscript by Fryderyk Chopin found in the Morgan Library in New York. These revelations were...

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Music of Funerals, Death, and Mourning

In view of the upcoming religious festivals and holidays – such as Halloween, Reformation Day, All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day, as well as the Sunday of the Dead – it seems fitting to take a closer look at compositions related to the topic of funerals, death, and mourning. The...

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Digitised music manuscripts made available online

The following originally appeared on the Music Blog of the British Library and is posted here under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence. Following the cyber-attack on the British Library last year, staff have been working behind the scenes to restore access to the Library’s digitised manuscripts. The Library has now...

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