Some Thoughts on the Music Archives Held by the Berlin Akademie der Künste

Abstract

Since the Akademie’s music archives are part of a much larger nationwide institution – which is not however an explicitly national archive, this being prohibited by the strictly federal organisation of cultural life in Germany – we are not free to organise our materials whichever way we find suitable. Rather, we have to follow the rules that we have established alongside our colleagues from the other departments. [...]