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Schönberg24 "Schönberg is dead", composer and conductor Pierre Boulez proclaimed in 1951. Despite such prophecies of doom, Schönberg's compositional and theoretical work continues to attract a great deal of attention from performers, contemporary composers, and audiences alike. In three series of ev

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

Experiencing Music - Exploring Music Strategy Paper of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung 2023 to 2028 Prerequisites Music is a human form of expression and communication that transcends boundaries and times, and it is in a constant state of technical, aesthetic, and social change. Music id

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