CIMCIM Bulletin August 2018 CONTENTS Gabriele Rossi Rognoni: President’s message . 3 ARTICLES Heike Fricke: Music Museums, Composer`s Houses and Musical Instruments Museums in Germany: An Overview . 6 NEW DISPLAYS AND TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS Natalyia Emelina: The Myth of Stradivari . 17 Bradley Strauchen-Scherer: The Art of Music: Renovated Galleries at the MET now open . 19 Bobby Giglio: News from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston . 22 Patricia Bornhofen: National Music Museum Gets Green Light on Building Expansion . 24 RESEARCH Pascale Vandervellen: Restoring the Piano-Viole: An Adventure in Sound . 25 PARTICULARS Congratulations and Contributions: Jeremy Montagu at 90 . 26 Heike Fricke: Interview with Darryl Martin from the Danish National Museum . 31 REPORTS Emanuele Marconi: New CIMCIM Website. 34 NEW BOOKS . 35 Cover Photo: A trio of trumpeters playing fanfares from the grand staircase of the MFA Boston, ‘Art in Tune’, 16 November 2018. DEADLINE FOR THE NEXT BULLETIN: 15/11/2018 Editor: Heike Fricke
[email protected] Editorial Board: Christina Linsenmeyer and Arnold Myers 3 Gabriele Rossi Rognoni PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Dear CIMCIM Members, ter organised and efficient web-page, which pro- I am writing this message on my way back from vides a much needed platform to gather historical the annual meeting of the ICOM Advisory, the information (many past CIMCIM Bulletins, confer- event which brings together, usually in early June, ence programmes and publications are now availa- the Chairs of all ICOM National and International ble), as well as develop current projects. A similar Committees to discuss the programmes and achieve- process is now being launched for all other ICOM’s ments of this huge organisation, which includes over International Committees and CIMCIM’s proactive 40,000 members in 119 countries.