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Geschichte der musikalischen Interpretation im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert This multivolume series is the first to provide a large and comprehensive historical account of the last two centuries of musical interpretation: the twentieth century, a time that produced most of the musicologists working today

Interpretation Research Interpretation research is one focus of scholarly work at the Institut für Musikforschung. It takes as its starting point the sound created during performance, which is understood as the primary manifestation of composed music. Researchers at the SIM, then, are less concerned

Archive of Concert Life From 2013 to 2016, the Musicological Documentation department at the SIM carried out a digitization project resulting in the “Archive of Concert Life.” The purpose of this project was to preserve, digitize and analyze records of concert life that have traditionally been regar

MIM Kids The Musikinstrumenten-Museum offers a variety of events for children and families . Calendar of Events (in German) Contact Museum box office +49 30 254 81-178 Email

Wednesday Night Cinema Start: 6 p.m., admission: 10 euros Dates for the season 2026/27 18 November 2026 16 December 2026 13 January 2027 10 February 2027 From November to February, it's movie time at the MIM. On the program are classics of silent films. They are accompanied by live music played by o

Jazz at the MIM Start: 7 p.m., free admission Berlin's cultural diversity is also reflected in the jazz scene. For twenty years, the Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research has provided a venue for Berlin's many modern jazz ensembles. The "Jazz at the MIM" series is organ

Concert Series The Musikinstrumenten-Museum hosts regular concerts featuring a variety of styles of music. Ranging from early music to jazz to silent film scores, the various concert series at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum shed light on the history of music as well as different aspects of contemporar

René Wallor, M.A. 2007 Internship at the Deutsches Musikarchiv in Berlin 2007–2010 Collaborator in the BMWi-funded Theseus subproject Contentus at the Deutsches Musikarchiv in Berlin 2012 Master of Arts at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in the subjects Library Science and Musicology. Master thes

Björn Kempf, M.A. Conservator of woodwind, brass and percussion instruments University education 2000–2006 Studied art history and German at the University of Hamburg. Major: Architectural History. Master's thesis with Prof. Dr. Hermann Hipp with the topic: "Historische Industriearchitektur, Umnutzu

Johann Joachim Quantz Musician - Pedagogue - Instrument Maker 8 September 2023 to 11 February 2024 "Quantz is the god of music" - this is how Crown Prince Frederick raved about his flute teacher in a letter to his sister Wilhelmine von Bayreuth in 1732. And indeed, the flutist and composer Johann Jo