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Staff members Here you can find the contact details of all staff members of the Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung. management and administration Department I: museum of musical instruments Department II: music theorie and music history Department II 1: section musicological documentation Depart

Tours Public tours with sound samples Saturday 11 a.m. and Thursday 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. Tour fee: 3 euros, plus museum admission Group tours for children, teens, secondary-school students, university students and adults can be arranged by prior appointment. Cost: Guided tours for kindergarten groups, s

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

Dr. Marten Noorduin Interview with Research Stipend Holder Dr Marten Noorduin (January – March 2022) SIM: What is your background? I am a historical musicologist and pianist with an interest in nineteenth-century music, with a focus on issues related to performance practices. My doctorate research a

Family concert with Pavel Steidl and Patricia Meyer-Fiebrich. Start: 11 a.m. World-class guitarist Pavel Steidl and presenter Patricia Meyer-Fiebrich invite you to a family concert. A musical journey through time on the concert guitar! Composers such as Paganini, Torroba and Pavel Steidl will make t

SIM Multiteaser headline Public tours with sound samples : Thursdays at 5 pm or 6 pm and Saturdays at 11 am Low brass : A brief history of low brass instruments Library : Musicological books and journals Concert Series : Early Music, Young Artists, Jazz and Wednesday Night Cinema Musikinstrumenten-M

Highlights of the Exhibition One of the highlights of the display collection is a nearly complete set of wind instruments used by the town pipers of Naumburg, Germany, in around 1600. Other gems of the collection include the famous Bach harpsichord (the original as well as later replicas), transvers

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

Music Perception At the SIM, experimental studies of questions involving the perception of music are a tradition that goes back to Hans-Peter Reinecke, the founder of Department III (then named the Department of Acoustics and Music Psychology) and later the institute’s director. Reinecke examined di

Audio-visual perception of acoustical environments Participant in the Virtual Concert Hall. Photo: Hans-Joachim Maempel From 2015 to 2018, the SIM conducted the second phase of the project "Audio-visual perception of acoustical environments" (MA 4343/1-2) within the framework of the DFG research uni