2025: 100 years of Music Studies Innsbruck

In 2025, we celebrated the centenary of our institute. A series of events took place throughout the year to honour the anniversary:

• October 2025 - January 2026: The lecture series "Cultures of Sound" started just in time for the beginning of the winter semester 2025/26. It presents the diversity of relationships that are created through musical and sonic interactions between people and their environment. Perspectives from various disciplines within and outside Music Studies present cultures of sound in all their diversity - in order to promote new interdisciplinary networks and research ideas and to open up the breadth and depth of their meanings to participants.
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• 27 November 2025: Our official ceremony at Haus der Musik including fanfare, greetings, keynote speech, historical review, reading, musical contributions and subsequent celebration. Contributions from Dirk Rupnow, Sijarosa Schletterer, Cornelia Hagele, Kurt Drexel, Nora Flute & More, Trio Iberoamérica, Silaba, DJ Mamal Kianipour, among others.
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• On 14 November 2025, the concert "Serenada della Pace" took place in the Kaiser-Leopold-Saal of the Faculty of Theology, with festive music by Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter, Georg Muffat, Johann Joseph Fux and others.

• On 4 June 2025, we welcomed Tiago de Oliveira Pinto for a guest lecture entitled "Transcultural music research and musical cultural heritage. Stages, approaches and perspectives". Professor de Oliveira Pinto holds the Chair of Transcultural Music Studies at the Franz Liszt School of Music in Weimar and heads the Department of Music Studies Weimar-Jena.

• 2 April 2025: We began our celebrations with a (musically framed) round of talks in the Haus der Musik.
  Topic: "Rudolf von Ficker as an early music pioneer" / Organisation: Music Department of the Ferdinandeum / Idea, concept and moderation: Ilse Strauß and Franz Gratl
  Guests included: Christian Leitmeir, Milijana Pavlović and Andreas Holzmann (musicologists)