[Society for Music Research].
An organization founded in 1946 in Germany to bring together musicologists, church musicians, music teachers, performers and amateur musicians, to promote musical research, to publish information, and to support the cultivation of associated studies and international musicological cooperation. This aim is achieved by three means: international congresses, which have been held in 1949 (Rothenburg), 1950 (Lüneburg), 1953 (Bamberg), 1956 (Hamburg), 1962 (Kassel), 1966 (Leipzig), 1970 (Bonn), 1974 (Berlin), 1981 (Bayreuth), 1985 (Stuttgart), 1993 (Freiburg) and 1998 (Halle); the formation of special groups within the society to study specific topics; and the publication of the periodical Die Musikforschung (1948–) and the monograph series Musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten. The latter covers a wide variety of topics and includes Richard Schaal’s Verzeichnis deutschsprachiger musikwissenschaftlicher Dissertationen 1861–1960 (Kassel, 1963; suppl. 1974). Friedrich Blume was the first president; he was succeeded by K.G. Fellerer, Martin Ruhnke, Ludwig Finscher, Carl Dahlhaus, Rudolf Stephan, Klaus W. Niemöller and Christoph Mahling.