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“The myth of OPER! Anything but high culture?”

44 minutes, 4 questions, four times a year: interesting guests and thought-provoking questions on inclusion and diversity in the arts and culture, presented in an interview format.

"Could an adventure be waiting for me?"

100 years of Hans Werner Henze | 50 years of the opera "Don Chisciotte" by Henze/Paisiello | 25 years of the Academy at Palazzo Ricci - three anniversaries, one story

Evelyn Urban on Lee Miller on WDR

On the WDR podcast “Zeitzeichen”, Evelyn Urban discusses the fascinating life and work of Lee Miller—spanning art, war, and emancipation.

Franz Waxman’s Music on Soundtrack Albums in the 1950s and 1960s

Ingeborg Zechner is taking part in the MSMI / Sound On Screen Conference and Symposium @ RNCM at the Royal Northern College of Music

Research gap in MGG closed

Saskia Jaszoltowski wrote articles on three of the most influential American film and animation composers in the history of cinema

New curricula from autumn 2026

BA in Art History MA in Art History MA in Musicology and Aesthetics of the Audiovisual Arts

Call for Papers: Music and the Archive: Fragmentary and Fragile Histories

Call for Papers for the eighth Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History, co-organised by Ingeborg Zechner as a member of the organising committee

Job Posting University Assistant with doctorate/PhD (m/f/d)

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Gastforschende Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mei-Hsin Chen Huang

At the invitation of Prof. Flach and Dr. Nahidi, we are delighted to welcome guest researcher Mei-Hsin Chen to our institute. Dr. Chen is an Associate…

Musicologica Austriaca – Call for Entries for the Best Paper Award 2026

The Austrian Musicological Society (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft) is awarding a prize for the best academic paper on the broad…

100 Years of Performing Arts in Düsseldorf

A series of events marking the 100th anniversary of the Class of Stage Arts at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, founded under the direction of Walter…

Music as a Meaningful Art

16th International Congress of Musicology (ICMS 16) at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, 2–6 June 2026

The greatest thing humanity has ever produced

Matinee featuring a reading and panel discussion to mark the 100th anniversary of Ingeborg Bachmann’s birth

Florence in the spring of 2026: A research stay at the Medici Archive Project

In the spring of 2026, she spent three months in Florence, devoting all her time and attention to research for her dissertation. This was made…

Two of the Deparment’s research projects to be presented at the “Musik_Familie” symposium

Ingeborg Zechner, Jakob Leitner, and Nora Eder will speak at the symposium “Musik_Familie. Cultural Studies Perspectives,” taking place in Vienna from…

Julian Blunk at a symposium in Paris

This is organized by ENSA Paris Val-de-Seine und ENSA Paris-Malaquais with the title "Spectres de l’architecture. Les voix négatives du projet…