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Silent film from 1930 with Otto Gebühr as Frederick II of Prussia, accompanied live on the Mighty Wurlitzer theater organ by Jörg Joachim Riehle. Start: 6 p.m. Titles in German. Special guided tour of the Quantz exhibition at 5 p.m. Start of the film screening: 6 p.m. Start of the 30-minute special

Dr. Thomas MacMillan Research Institute Assistant Higher education 2019–2022 PhD at the University of Arts Berlin Dissertation: „I Might Be Wrong: Modal Fluctuation in the Music of Radiohead“ 2009–2014 Studies in musicology and composition (Bachelor and Master degrees) Newcastle University, England

Music theory Music theory is one of the main fields of research pursued at the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung (State Institute for Music Research). After careful planning and thorough discussion, the “History of Music Theory” project was created to provide a formal, long-term context for st

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

Mireya Salinas Event management and cultural education Mireya Salinas has been working for the Musical Instruments Museum of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung (State Institute for Music Research) since July 2013, and since 2016 she has been responsible for the area of Cultural Education an

Curiosities The history of musical instrument making includes many examples of rare and wondrous inventions. Pay a visit to our virtual cabinet of curiosities! Sausage bassoon and a trumpet in a can Sewing box piano and musical walking sticks Aeolian harp Arpeggione Sausage bassoon and a trumpet in

Multiperspectivity On the Nature of Research at the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung (SIM) is the largest non-university research institution for musicology in Germany. The Institute encompasses a library and a musical instruments museum. The coexist