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The Research Center Digital Organology at the Musical Instruments Museum Leipzig | AMIS 2021

Heike Fricke, Musikinstrumentenmuseum der Universität Leipzig This paper introduces the new research center DIGITAL ORGANOLOGY at the Musical Instruments Museum of the University of Leipzig (MIMUL) and its current research projects: The first, called TASTEN, deals on the one hand with the digitization of selected keyboard instruments from the MIMUL collection, including clavichords, harpsichords, fortepianos, and organs. In addition, 3,400 historical piano rolls were digitized: they store concerts of famous pianists such as Ferruccio Busoni, Arthur Nikisch, and Max Reger as well as those of composers playing their own works, such as Claude Debussy, Richard Strauss, and Edvard Grieg. The second is a provenance research project on the Kaiser-Reka Collection. The musical instruments collected by Paul Kaiser-Reka during his lifetime feed three large collections in Germany: those of the Cologne City Museum, the Viadrina Museum in Frankfurt/Oder, and MIMUL. Since the collection was assembled during the interwar years, it is burdened with considerable suspicions regarding cultural assets seized through Nazi persecution. The third project, DISKOS, deals with the comparison of different sources of music, including sheet music, audio recordings, piano rolls, and card or metal discs. The digitization, conversion, and research of card and metal discs preserved at MIMUL will open up a new field of research. Until now, their illegibility—for humans—and their lack of standardization prevented comprehensive research. Exploring them will become possible with digitization. Making large sets of data accessible is a key task for our digitization projects. In this paper, we also present the current state of the ongoing musiXplora project, including a multi-faceted digitized database and front end for persons, places, objects, terms, media, events, and institutions of musicological interest. A special focus of the project is the use of visualization to overcome traditional problems of handling both vast amounts of data and difficulties with the data itself. Heike Fricke studied musicology and journalism at the Freie Universität Berlin and holds a PhD in musicology. She worked with the musical instrument museums in Berlin and Edinburgh and was awarded an Andrew. W. Mellon fellowship in art history by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Heike has published articles in MGG, The New Grove, Lexikon der Holzblasinstrumente and books such as the Catalogue of the Shackleton Collection, Faszination Klarinette, and Die Klarinette im 18. Jahrhundert. She is the editor of the magazine Rohrblatt and the CIMCIM Bulletin. Currently she conducts the research project DISKOS at the Musikinstrumentenmuseum der Universität Leipzig. http://organology.uni- leipzig.de/; https://musixplora.de/musici/ This presentation was delivered at the 2021 Meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society. www.amis.org