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  1. Second Viennese School

    Second Viennese School The Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung (State Institute for Music Research, SIM) has a research program dedicated to the music of the Second Viennese School. It is concerned largely with publishing the correspondence of the leading members of the school. At the heart of t

  2. Service

    Service On the service pages you will find the sitemap, information on barrier-free use of this site, information on data protection and the imprint. If you would like information about the State Institute for Music Research and its Museum of Musical Instruments, please visit our press portal . More

  3. Structure

    Structure The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung (State Institute for Music Research) is an institution of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation). The Institute is directed by Dr Rebecca Wolf . Organizational chart of the SIM The Staatliche Institut für Mus

  4. Systematic Musicology

    Systematic Musicology The papers listed here in the area of Systematic Musicology deal not only with the Institute's main topics such as music perception, music transmission, and interpretation, but also with music sociology and methodological topics. Maempel, Hans-Joachim (in press): "Audiobearbeit

  5. Digitised collections

    Digitised collections Digital collections Our Digital Collections contain selected digitized content from our library. There are occasionally titles from other libraries and from private collections as well. Digital content based on items in our own collections is available to anyone around the worl

  6. Dr Dimitris Kountouras

    Dr Dimitris Kountouras Active as a performer, teacher and researcher in the field of Early Music and historical flutes Dimitris Kountouras is based in Greece. He is a visiting scholar at the Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung for September 2024 where he works on his research project: Instruments

  7. Sound and Vision Experience Lab

    Sound and Vision Experience Lab Large-screen monitor and loudspeaker of the SV_XL in the working model Sound & Vision Experience Lab The project Sound & Vision Experience Lab (SV_XL) evolved from the DFG-funded project "Audio-visual perception of acoustical environments". It is funded by the board o

  8. Opening hours & directions

    Opening hours & directions Museum opening hours starting May 18, 2026 We are carrying out renovation work. As a result, our opening hours will be as follows from 18 May until the end of October 2026: Wednesday: 1 pm–5 pm Thursday, Friday: 1 pm–8 pm Saturday, Sunday: 10 am–5 pm Monday, Tuesday: close

  9. The Heart of Berlin's Bohemian Scene (19.04.2026)

    Angela Winkler and Hans-Jörn Brandenburg present new musical settings of poems by Else Lasker-Schüler. On 19 April 1933, Else Lasker-Schüler fled Berlin and Hitler’s Germany in a hurry to Switzerland. In collaboration with the Else Lasker-Schüler Society in Wuppertal, the State Institute for Music R

  10. Annette Richards and David Yearsley

    Annette Richards and David Yearsley Longtime colleagues who have written extensively on the Bach family, music culture and aesthetics of the long eighteenth century, and keyboard cultures across the centuries, Annette Richards and David Yearsley , are professors of musicology at Cornell University i