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  1. On 1,000 keys – Music school concert celebrating the Instrument of the Year (07.11.2026)

    The Leo Kestenberg Music School’s accordion orchestra plays music ranging from Bach to the Beatles. Museum admission Free for children and young people up to the age of 18 Further links Spotlight exhibition on the accordion

  2. Music, Archives and Politics in East and West Berlin since 1963: Cosmopolitan, International, Global (Kopie 1) (04.07.2024)

    Conference. Event. Workshop: 4 to 6 July, 2024. Submission of paper proposals until March 4, 2024. Registration for the workshop until February 17. We invite you to submit paper proposals for our conference “Music, Archives and Politics in East and West Berlin since 1963: Cosmopolitan, International

  3. From Baroque to Bluegrass

    From Baroque to Bluegrass 1 February to 23 July 2023 Pandurina, Giovanni Smorsone (Smorzone), Rom, 1736, cat.-no. 5005. Photo: Anne-Katrin Breitenborn From Baroque to Bluegrass - The Many Faces of the Mandolin The lute's little sister spread from Italy to the rest of Europe and to America. It was po

  4. Staff Members Department II

    Staff Members Department II Here you can find the contact to the staff of Department II of the Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung. Department II: music theory and music history Dr. Simone Hohmaier Research Associate +49 30 254 81 197 Email CV Dr. Sydney Hutchinson Research Associate +49 30 254 8

  5. Staff members

    Staff members Here you can find the contact details of all staff members of the Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung. management and administration Department I: museum of musical instruments Department II: music theorie and music history Department II 1: section musicological documentation Depart

  6. Data privacy

    Data privacy The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung (SIM) as a legally dependent institution of the Stiftung Reußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK) is committed to handling your personal data in a responsible way and to maintaining transparency about its use. The fo

  7. Latest Research

    Latest Research Public lectures and colloquia Free admission. Venue: SIM seminar room (access via the entrance to the State Institute for Music Research. Link to OpenStreetMap ) Curt-Sachs Hall, MIM Musical Instrument Museum, Ben-Gurion-Straße 1, 10785 Berlin . No registration is required. Further l

  8. Studien zur Geschichte der Musiktheorie

    Studien zur Geschichte der Musiktheorie The multi-volume series Studien zur Geschichte der Musiktheorie (Studies on the History of Music Theory) presents the results of contemporary research in the field of historical music theory. Previous publications in this series Band 14 Bernhard, Michael; Sach

  9. Geschichte der Musiktheorie

    Geschichte der Musiktheorie The history department at the SIM is continuing its work on a fifteen-volume history of music theory titled Geschichte der Musiktheorie (History of Music Theory) . This series offers a detailed account of music-theoretical thought from antiquity to the present. Previous p

  10. Multiperspectivity

    Multiperspectivity On the Nature of Research at the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung (SIM) is the largest non-university research institution for musicology in Germany. The Institute encompasses a library and a musical instruments museum. The coexist