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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

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

On 30 July at 7 pm, the SIM will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of its jazz series with three top-class acts and a sundowner bar on the roof terrace. Since 2006, the Museum of Musical Instruments (MIM) at the State Institute for Music Research (SIM) has provided a venue for Berlin’s many modern

Guided tour of the SIM’s acoustic studios to mark the 100th anniversary of Hans-Peter Reinecke’s birth As a musicologist, psychologist and experimental physicist , Prof. Dr Hans-Peter Reinecke (1926–2003) devoted his work to, amongst other things, room and building acoustics, the transmission of mus

Democratic musical traditions and musical instruments: the USA in the collection of the State Institute for Music Research. Guided tour and workshop Glass harmonica invented by Benjamin Franklin, MIM Cat. No. 812, photo: Anne-Katrin Breitenborn In 2026, the USA will celebrate the 250th anniversary o

The State Institute for Music Research and the Berlin Philharmonic invite you to attend. A day full of music for everyone in Berlin. The Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research and the Philharmonie Berlin are opening their doors. As well as numerous musical performances,

Dr. Dr. N. Andrew Walsh Dr. Dr. N. Andrew Walsh is a composer (PhD SUNY Buffalo, 2009) and musicologist (Dr. phil. State College for Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart). In both domains his work is focused on the graphic scores of the postwar avant-garde. His research and creative work is dedicated

The Material, the Artistic, and the Social Ensemble rehearsals in and around Berlin and London, 1813-1869 Jullien’s Concert Orchestra and Four Military Bands, at Covent Garden Theatre (engraving), 1846. Quelle: Musicology for Everyone Musicological research has long recognised a significant gap betw

Low brass A brief history of low brass instruments Bass tuba by Johann Gottfried Moritz (Berlin, 1839), cat.-no. 4456. Photo: Schnepp Renou Exhibition in the stone foyer of the Musikinstrumenten-Museum for the "Year of the Tuba 2024" Whether in a symphony orchestra or a brass band, the tuba is an es

The Accordion Accordion by Meinel & Herold, Klingenthal, c. 1870. Photo: Anne-Katrin Breitenborn Spotlight exhibition The accordion is a familiar feature in many musical genres: in folk and popular music, in jazz and dance music, as well as in contemporary music. Yann Tiersen’s soundtrack to the fil