This anthology arose as a follow-up publication to a 2015 conference with which the mdw’s Department of Music Sociology celebrated 50 years of existence.

February 2019 witnessed the launch of the three-year third party-funded project Heinrich Schenker’s Diaries 1915–1919: An Annotated Edition. It marks the latest climax in the recent historical interest in this Viennese theoretician.

Back in 2018, the mdw began offering internal financial support for pilot projects in the field of artistic research.

The European Commission-funded research and innovation action TROMPA aims to create a digital platform on which all of us can help shape the digitisation, interconnection, and enrichment of all manifestations of “classical music”, including scores and sound recordings.

The Theme of isaScience19 as a Scholarly Reinterpretation of Just Play!?