7. Newsletter Datenbank CARLA der HMT Leipzig
Dear readers interested in the CARLA database of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig,
as the year draws to a close, we would like to take this opportunity to inform you of some CARLA news before the New Year.
Current state of completion
As always, here is a brief update on the indexing and linking of data from the study records in CARLA.
Currently 12096 of the 12,776 student records up to and including the year 1918 (95%) have been fully processed. In terms of time, we are in the inscription year 1914.
CARLA shortlisted for the 3rd NFDI4Culture Music Award
The NFDI4Culture Music Award is presented annually by the NFDI4Culture consortium (National Research Data Infrastructure for Cultural Data). It honours ‘projects or undertakings that make a special contribution to the goals of the consortium’s areas of activity in the field of music and musicology’ (source)
This year we applied with CARLA and were shortlisted with two other projects. You can find the shortlist here.
Unfortunately, CARLA did not win the prize, but NFDI4Culture offered us support for further work on our database. We would like to thank the NFDI4Culture consortium for the nomination and congratulate the winner of the Music Award Dennis Ried (project ‘Baumann Digital’).
Article about CARLA in the new MT-Journal
We were also able to present CARLA in our university’s own MT Journal. In the latest issue of the journal, which has just been published in December, you will find an article on pages 32-34 in which CARLA is presented with all its functions.
The 57th issue with the article on CARLA, as well as all earlier issues of the MT Journal are available online via Qucosa.
NEW: Link to RISM
We are pleased to announce that we have added a new resource to the list of links to additional resources. Now on CARLA you can also find links to entries related to the persons in the International Inventory of Musical Sources RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales). This is made possible by indexing the GND ID in both databases and a corresponding mapping file from RISM. The link only appears if the GND ID for the person is stored in RISM and the person is linked to catalogue records in RISM.
Example: Helen Hopekirk (inscription number 2595)
A brief review of the year 2024
We can look back on a successful year with CARLA!
Despite taking on additional tasks, our employee was able to complete 2071 more student records (approx. 10 per day), create or edit 2336 people in the GND (approx. 12 per day) and create 155 new locations in the GND (approx. 1 per day).
In addition, we were finally able to make CARLA available to the public with our user and research interface and present the database in various contexts, e.g. at the IAML Germany congress. The slides from the presentation at the IAML congress and other publications about the project can be found on the CARLA website under ‘Publications’.
Thank you!
As we do at the end of every newsletter, we would like to thank you for your continued interest in CARLA!
If you have any further questions or comments about the CARLA database or any of the issues mentioned in this newsletter, please do not hesitate to contact us at carla@hmt-leipzig.de.
We wish you a peaceful festive season and a good start to the New Year 2025!
PS:
As always, we would like to present you with a little treat from our database. This time it will be Christmassy in keeping with the season.
Eyvind Alnæs studied at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1892 to Easter 1894 and then became an organist in Drammen, Norway. In addition to this work, he also composed, among other things, two symphonies, piano works, songs and choral works. One of these compositions is his Julemotett (Christmas motet) for choir, solo and organ. A recording of this work by the Norwegian boys’ choir Sølvguttene can be found on YouTube.
Alnæs was awarded the Royal Medal of Merit in Gold in 1922 and ten years later the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav of the Degree Knight 1st Class. He was the father of the writer and resistance fighter Lise Børsum (1908-1985) and grandfather of the writer Finn Alnæs (1932-1991).
Unfortunately, Christmas was not always as merry for Alnæs and his family as one might have hoped. In 1932, Eyvind Alnæs died in Oslo on 24 December at the age of 60.
Alnæs’ (inscription number 6080) student records from our collections:
directorial certificate (1894)
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