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  1. Central Themes of the Collection

    Central Themes of the Collection The museum collects instruments of European art music dating from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. One special focus is early harpsichords and spinets, such as those from the Ruckers family workshop, as well as string instruments made by master instrument m

  2. sense:ability

    sense:ability Music-related knowledge transfer between materiality and virtuality Photo: SIMPK/Paula Nickel Music is a highly sensory affair, based on numerous laws and principles. We hear a favourite melody and an infinite variety of sounds. We see the conductor's gesture, the scores, and other wri

  3. Claudia Stirnat, M.A.

    Claudia Stirnat, M.A. CV 2022–2024 Research Assistant at State Institute for Music Research 2019–2021 PhD scholarship of Thuringian State Graduate Support 2018–2022 Member-at-Large in the SysMus Executive Committee Since 2018 PhD student at TU Ilmenau, research group Electronic Media Technology Grou

  4. Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums

    Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums The Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums (Bibliography of Music Literature, BMS) was created in 1936 by our predecessor institution, the Staatliches Institut für deutsche Musikforschung (State Institute for German Music Research) in Berlin, in order to establish a co

  5. Dr Rebecca Wolf

    Dr Rebecca Wolf Rebecca Wolf is the director of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung. She is a musicologist with a focus on the cultural history of music and organology in the 19th and 20th centuries, on the history of interpretation and media studies. CV Since August 2021 Director of the Sta

  6. Flavia Hennig, M.A.

    Flavia Hennig, M.A. Higher Education 04/2018–09/2023 MA studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin: Musicology 09/2016–01/2017 Erasmus semester in France at the Université Lumière Lyon 2: Musicology 10/2014–08/2018 BA studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin: core subject Musicology, second su

  7. Dr. Marten Noorduin

    Dr. Marten Noorduin Interview with Research Stipend Holder Dr Marten Noorduin (January – March 2022) SIM: What is your background? I am a historical musicologist and pianist with an interest in nineteenth-century music, with a focus on issues related to performance practices. My doctorate research a

  8. Publications

    Publications The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung publishes the results of its research in various publications, including its own scientific series, catalogs, museum guides and CD series. The core publication activities of the State Institute for Music Research concern its research on the per

  9. SIM Yearbook 2022 “Zeitgenosse Hoffmann” published (21.11.2025)

    The 2022 yearbook of the State Institute for Music Research on the topic of “Contemporary Hoffmann” is now available at https://simjb.journals.qucosa.de/simjb. The contributions in this volume are based on the symposium “Zeitgenosse Hoffmann – Im Spannungsfeld von automatisierter und künstlerisch-in

  10. Louis Petitjean

    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