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  1. The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2025: A highlight for talented young violinists and piano trio players (19.12.2024)

    The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2025 will take place from 15 to 19 January. This year, Germany's oldest competition for young talent in classical music will be held in the violin and piano trio categories. Ulf Werner, orchestra director of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, will

  2. SoNAR: Open data for historical network research

    10.02.2026 SoNAR: Open data for historical network research Article Power, influence and social advancement are often based on invisible relationships. Historical network analysis can reveal such connections, but requires data that is difficult to access and scattered across numerous institutions. T

  3. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition decided - Prize goes to cello-piano duo from the Hanover University of Music and Performing Arts (17.01.2010)

    Tonight, the prize-winning duo Christine Rauh (cello) and Johannes Nies (piano) from the Hanover University of Music and Theatre, who won this year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition, will present themselves to the audience in the concert hall of the Berlin University of the Arts. Germany's o

  4. Winner of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2013 (21.01.2013)

    The winners of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2013 have been announced. The jury awarded three first, five second and three third prizes as well as other special prizes. The total of the main and special prizes awarded this year amounts to 51,000 euros. In addition to the cas

  5. Tickets for the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2017 go on sale (13.12.2016)

    The concerts of the competition, which will be held for the first time in 2017 under the under the artistic direction of Sebastian Nordmann, will take place on 20 and 22 January 2017. The winners will perform will perform with the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra Leipzig under the direction of Róbert F

  6. "Hold your nerve!" at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2018 in the subjects of piano and composition (08.01.2018)

    The public competitions of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition, which will be held this year in the subjects of piano and composition, will begin on 17 January 2018. The Konzerthausorchester Berlin, conducted by Corinna Niemeyer, has been secured as a partner for both the piano fi

  7. Germany's oldest young classical music competition starts advance sales for January 2019 (20.12.2018)

    On 20 January 2019, the winners of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition will perform with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under the direction of Corinna Niemeyer at the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt. Germany's oldest competition for young classical musicians will be held in 2019 in

  8. The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition in piano and composition starts on 12 January 2022 (11.01.2022)

    On 12 January 2022, the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition will begin, in which the best young musicians from German music academies will compete against each other in the subjects of piano and composition. The final concert and the prizewinners' concert with competition participants

  9. Kupferstichkabinett and the "Degenerate Art" campaign of 1937: New publication commemorates Willy Kurth's rescue operation (10.10.2023)

    The curator saved hundreds of masterpieces by Kirchner, Heckel, Picasso and Beckmann from the Nazi iconoclasm - and kept quiet about it for the rest of his life - now he is being remembered for the first time and his daring rescue operation is being comprehensively reconstructed Summer 1937: The Nat

  10. Sharing historical sound recordings from Latin America globally (20.10.2025)

    To mark the 125th anniversary of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut and the Ethnologisches Museum presented wax cylinder recordings (1905-1934) from Latin America. These are now available worldwide in open access in the IAI's Digital Collections. To celebrate the 125th