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Music on Demand December 2026 to December 2027 Walkman TC-55, Sony, Japan, 1970–1979, photo: SIMPK/Sabine Hoffmann Records, cassettes, streaming! To mark the 20th anniversary of the founding of Spotify (2006), the 140th anniversary of the gramophone (1887) and the 150th anniversary of the phonograph

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Guest researchers and sholarship holders Guest researchers September and October 2025 Kirill Smolkin Scholarship holders May to August 2026 Dr Meredith Nicoll Dr Lars Klingberg May to July 2025 Dr N. Andrew Walsh September 2024 Dr Dimitris Kountouras November 2023 to January 2024 Dr Moritz Kelber No

About us The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung is the largest non-university research center for musicology in Germany. Its building is part of the Berlin Kulturforum, next to the Philharmonie and the Sony Center, designed by Edgar Wisniewski after sketches by Hans Scharoun. It is a place of hi

A gem of 1920s detective films. Live accompaniment on the Mighty Wurlitzer theater organ by Bernd Wurzenrainer. The German Film Institute & Film Museum (DFF) restored this film from the German Harry Hill series, a gem of 1920s detective cinema, back in 2011. The public transport system of a large ci

Dr. Jo Wilhelm Siebert Curriculum vitae 2000-2009 Studies in Musicology, Philosophy and Comparative Literature (MA) at the Technical University of Berlin 2003/2004 Studies (Musicology) at Royal Holloway College, University of London 2.2009 to 1.2011 Research Assistant at the State Institute for Musi

Emanuele Marconi, director of the SIMPK Musical Instrument Museum, discusses the important collection of Belgian César Snoeck as the source of the first known museum reproductions. Belgian collector César Snoeck (1834–1898) assembled one of the largest and most important musical instrument collectio

Louis Petitjean Research Assistant at the Musical Instrument Museum Louis Petitjean is a PhD student at the University of Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, a member of the HiCSA "Histoire Culturelle et Sociale de l'Art" laboratory and is under the joint supervision of Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di

Dr. Sydney Hutchinson Research Associate CV Since November 2025: Research Associate at the State Institute for Music Research 2020-2025: Research assistant at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute for Musicology and Media Studies, Popular Music Studies 2019-2020: Substitute professor for eth

Dr. Marten Noorduin Research Associate CV Since December 2025: Research Associate at the State Institute for Music Research 2022-2024: Research Associate, University of Music Lübeck. Since 2022: Coordinator for science communication, COST Action CA21161, A New Ecosystem of Early Music Studies (Early