State Institute for Music Research
The State Institute for Music Research - Prussian Cultural Heritage ( SIMPK ) is a musicological research facility of musical instruments, music history and music theory in Berlin, which operates at the same time the Museum of Musical Instruments (MIM ).
History
Efforts Prussian scholar at a research facility for music history and Organology go back to 1888, when Philip Spitta and Joseph Joachim encouraged the purchase of the Leipzig music instruments collection Paul de Wit. With its 240 objects and 34 musical instruments from the Museum of Decorative Arts collection of historical instruments at the Royal Academy was established for academic music. Further acquisitions were added in 1890 and 1891. 1910 enabled Kaiser Wilhelm II to buy up a comprehensive collection of 1,145 objects instrument Ghent.
On 14 February 1893, the Royal Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments in the former Building Academy was opened on Schinkelplatz under the direction of Oskar Fleischer. In 1917, Carl August Rau after preparation under the auspices of Prince Adolf of Schaumburg -Lippe, the Princely Institute of musicological research to Biickeburg. After the First World War, Curt Sachs took over the management of the collection at the Berlin State Academy of Music in December 1919. As a result of the rise of the Nazis in the spring of 1933 Curt Sachs was dismissed because of his Jewish origin by the Vocational Civil Service Act of his office and escaped through Paris into exile in America. New director of the collection was Georg Schünemann.
1935, the National Institute for German music research under the direction of Max Seiffert was launched: The Princely Institute in Biickeburg it was annexed as a " historical section ", which since 1917 in Berlin existing music archives of the German folk songs formed the " Department of Folk Music " under Kurt Huber; the third section was the most to college belonging for Musical Instruments Museum. The boom, which the Institute experienced during the years of the Third Reich, corresponded to the alacrity with which musicology, as far as their representatives had not emigrated, supported Nazism. 1941 Max Seiffert retired; until the end of World War II, the Institute was under provisional leadership of Hans Albrecht. On January 1, 1945, the Institute was closed by decree of the Reich Minister for Science, Education and National Education Bernhard Rust.
In the postwar years, the Institute came under the sponsorship of the Berlin Senate and could move into the castle Charlottenburg to changing temporary accommodation in 1949 under the direction of Alfred Berner, and the Museum of Musical Instruments 1951 exhibition rooms received, which was reopened in 1963. After several relocations, the Philharmonie adjacent building was from 1979 to 1984 after plans by the architect Hans Scharoun a built in Tiergarten Strasse 1, which now houses the Institute and Museum of Musical Instruments.
Successor of Alfred Berner, who retired in 1975, was Hans -Peter Reinicke; He was followed in 1989, the former Museum of Musical Instruments director Dagmar Droysen - Reber. Current Director of the Institute since 2001, Thomas Ertelt. For the director of the Musical Instruments Museum Conny Restle 1994 was appointed.
Tasks
The State Institute for Music Research today has 55 employees in four departments ( " Musical Instrument Museum ", " music theory and music history ", "Acoustics and Music Technology / studio technology and IT," "Music Scientific Documentation ").
A practical music theory, which reflects the ratio of musical theory and practice of music-making, of historical instruments and in 1936 founded bibliography of music literature (BMS ) are the main focus of the work of the Institute. An applied on the initiative of Carl Dahlhaus returning to 15 volumes long-term project on the history of music theory is developed here of around 50 musicologists. In this context, the staff also deal with historical performance practice, which is being tested on the instruments and on the premises of the museum live in the series of events Early Music.
The Institute also developed a complete edition of the correspondence of the Viennese school (including 2300 letters from Schoenberg, Zemlinsky, Berg and Webern, as well as the correspondence of their relevant artist Eduard helmsman and Rudolf Kolisch ).
The building on the Tiergartenstraße has a library (about 67,000 volumes, 170 continually reproached magazines), a collection of recordings, an e- lab, recording studio, echo chamber, digital editing suites for research on acoustics and a function room with about 200 seats ( Curt - Sachs-Hall ). In addition, the Institute is engaged under the leadership of long -time chairman of the price of German record critics, Martin Mittelstenahe, with the reception and dissemination of commercially produced and mechanically reproduced sound recordings ( disco Logie ). The archive preserves addition to music and music manuscripts ( 650 manuscripts, of which 320 autographs ) over 6000 musicians letters to, among others, from the estates of Joseph Joachim and Franz Wüllner. Also, the archives of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is based here.
With regular public concerts, symposiums and lectures, the Institute presents the returns of its research to the public. The documentation project BMS online makes the ongoing bibliography musicological literature a wide range of users.