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Latest update: 20 April 2009
Performances of Raff symphonies are few and far between but recently the Symphony No.3 Im Walde was performed in Karlstad, Sweden and the Concert Reviews section has a full review of this exciting concert.
The recent series of spam and hacking attacks on raff.org has been isolated to security inadequacies in the software which powered The Raff Forums and so it has been decided to suspend the Forums temporarily.
There's news of more concerts In Germany and the USA featuring Raff's orchestral and vocal music.
Good quality scan of the title pages of Raff's Concertante for piano, choir and orchestra Die Tageszeiten, the Zwei Fantasie-Stücke for cello & piano, the song collection Sanges-Frühling and the Salon-Etude for piano on the sextet from Wagner's Tannhäuser have been added to the Gallery section.
The collection of Raff scores held by the National Museum of Australia in Canberra has been added to the Find Scores section.

Previous updates:
27 March 2009
Petronel Malan has featured another of Raff's piano arrangements in her new CD for Hänssler Classics: "Transfigured Beethoven". The first of his two transcriptions of Beethoven's Romances for Violin & Orchestra features on this disc along with seven further arrangements by other composers. The CD is reviewed and illustrated by a streaming mp3 extract.
A short description of Raff's transcription for piano of Beethoven's Romance for violin & orchestra No.1 has been added to the Arrangements page in the Music section. It is illustrated with a streaming mp3 extract.
The score and parts of the Piano Quintet have been added to the free download site IMSLP. Full details on the New Scores page in the Find Scores Section.
Unsung chamber music specialist publishers Edition Silvertrust have added eight further editions of Raff chamber music works to their collection. Full details on the New Scores page in the Find Scores Section.
 
1 February 2009
The early 1860s saw Raff catapulted from obscurity to prominence amongst German composers through the winning of two prestigeous competitions. A new page in the Detailed Biography section takes Raff's story forward to 1863 and charts how this dramatic change in his fortunes occurred.
The five Violin Sonatas were amongst his most frequently played chamber compositions and continued in the repertoire after much of his music was forgotten. A new page describes the history and music of the passionate Violin Sonata No.5 in detail. Each movement is illustrated with a streaming mp3 extract.
An RSS feed has been added as another way of receiving Raff news and notifcation of updates to the web site.
There is news of two performances of the Ein feste Burg Overture at concerts in Pirna and in Dresden, Germany in March.
A new etching portrait of Raff dating from the 1870s has been added to the Gallery pages of the Resource section.
 
1 January 2009
The 2008 Unsung Quiz was obviously a taxing one! For all you frustrated competitors, here are the Answers.
Raff's seven piano suites are at the core of his output for the instrument and were in the forefront of the revival of baroque forms in 19th century music. Exemplary MIDI realisations of the Third and Fourth Piano Suites by Segundo Yogore have been added to the MIDI page in the Resources section.
Raff's personal and musical relationship with Wagner was an awkward one. The previous page which reviewed what the two men thought of each other and their music has been completely rewritten and greatly extended with much new material.
Both the Family Background and the Family Tree pages in the Life section have been updated with newly researched information about two of Raff's siblings.
Public domain free online sheet music resource IMSLP has added a piano arrangement of a concerto to its already substantial list of Raff scores.
There's news of a performance of the Sinfonietta in Arizona, USA.
Two further scans of score title pages have been added to the Gallery section.