The Bibliography Commission hosted three sessions at the 2010 Moscow conference. The first session entitled Research on Music Copyists from the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries took place on Monday June 28th. Three papers offered differing perspectives on copyists research including landmark studies from Dresden, a bibliographic overview of copyist information provided in published catalogs, and a report on a prototype system to index copyists hands. Dr. Ortrun Landmann, though now in retirement, attended the conference to share insights gathered from a distinguished career devoted to the study of music manuscripts with a special focus on the Saxony Court at Dresden. Landmann's professional contributions include years as the RISM specialist in Dresden and as the subject specialist of the music manuscript collection at the Sachsischen Landesbibliothek in Dresden. She has published extensively on the music history of the Dresden Court. She has also produced a number of descriptive catalogues (both print and electronic) dealing with the Dresden music manuscripts and copyists. Landmann's presentation, titled "The Dresden Music Copyists of the Saxon Court ca.1720ca.1840" drew upon the research that the author presented in a digital publication in 2009, Uber das Musikerbe der Sachsischen Staatskapelle. Drei Studien zur Geschichte der Dresdner Hofkapelle und Hofoper anhand ihrer Quellenuberlieferung in der SLUB Dresden [On the Musical Heritage of the Saxon Court: 3 Studies on the History of the Dresden Court Orchestra and Opera, Based on SLUB Dresden's Original Source Documentation], accessible at http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-25559.
