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sense:ability Music-related knowledge transfer between materiality and virtuality Photo: SIMPK/Paula Nickel Music is a highly sensory affair, based on numerous laws and principles. We hear a favourite melody and an infinite variety of sounds. We see the conductor's gesture, the scores, and other wri

Dr Rebecca Wolf Rebecca Wolf is the director of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung. She is a musicologist with a focus on the cultural history of music and organology in the 19th and 20th centuries, on the history of interpretation and media studies. CV Since August 2021 Director of the Sta

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

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

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

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

Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums The Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums (Bibliography of Music Literature, BMS) was created in 1936 by our predecessor institution, the Staatliches Institut für deutsche Musikforschung (State Institute for German Music Research) in Berlin, in order to establish a co

Geschichte der Musiktheorie The history department at the SIM is continuing its work on a fifteen-volume history of music theory titled Geschichte der Musiktheorie (History of Music Theory) . This series offers a detailed account of music-theoretical thought from antiquity to the present. Previous p

Topography of Berlin Concert Life 1880–1945 The Topography of Berlin Concert Life 1880–1945 is an interactive map marking 250 historical geographical places, including the locations of ministries, schools, music publishers, instrument makers, concert halls and residences of performers and composers.

The Virtual Concert Hall This page is still under construction. Contact PD Dr. Hans-Joachim Maempel Head of Department III +49 30 254 81 141 Email CV Publications Maempel Horn, 2017: The Virtual Concert Hall Support