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Lecture recital with tuba player Roland Szentpáli on the ‘Year of the Tuba 2024’. As part of the ‘40 years of SIM at the Kulturforum’ events At the beginning of 2023, the Musical Instrument Museum acquired 14 brass instruments in the tenor and bass registers from the 18th to the early 20th century.

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Discology SIM pursues discology research based on the premise that radio, records and compact discs are not just media for transmitting and storing music but, like musical instruments, are media of music itself. Edison cylinder from the sound recording collection of the SIMPK library. Photograph by

Conference, 3-5th July 2024. Workshop on "Instrument making in East and West: Olga Adelmann and Curt Jung with a resonating excursion to India" on 4 July from 9 am to 12.30 pm at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung. From 3 to 5 July, a conference on "Cosmopolitan, i

Olga Adelmann: Master Violin Maker, Restorer, Scholar How international collaboration lead to the discovery of forgotten masterpieces In my personal possession I have an old postcard from the year 1938. The picture side shows a panorama of the city of Cremona with the white marble facade and the ico

Organology Organology is a discipline of musicology dedicated to the study and description of musical instruments. Since its establishment by Curt Sachs, it has made use of interdisciplinary aids and techniques, primarily from art history, but also from ethnology and physics. Areas of responsibility

Archives Special Exhibitions and Projects 8 September 2023 to 11 February 2024 Johann Joachim Quantz: Musician - Pedagogue - Instrument Maker 23. Mai 2020 bis 16. September 2023 Porzellan und Musik Konzerte und Führungen in Kunstgewerbe- und Musikinstrumenten-Museum 1 February to 23 July 2023 From B

Barnes Ziegler, B.A. Conservator (B.A.) and Violinmaker Conservator for Bowed Stringed Instruments CV 2023 M.A. Degree in conservation and restoration of modern materials and industrial cultural heritage at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (University of Applied Sciences) 2021 B.A. Degre

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

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