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. [...]