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December 5, 2025

RILM RILM acquires and relaunches the Hofmeister XIX Database. RILM, a global organization dedicated to documenting and making accessible the world's musical knowledge across all traditions, announced that it has acquired the Hofmeister XIX database from Royal Holloway, University of London, and King's College London. This valuable resource is now hosted at hofmeister.rilm.org, continuing its mission under RILM's stewardship to support musicological inquiry. The Hofmeister XIX database provides comprehensive, searchable access to over 330,000 bibliographic records from the Hofmeister Monatsberichte, published between 1829 and 1900. These [Full Announcement].

October 10, 2025

RILM RILM Releases Digital Archive of Independent Music Magazines. Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale has launched the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM), preserving in a digital format for the first time several valuable, rare, and largely unknown independently published music magazines. [Full Announcement].