The IKMI and its archive Dr. Annett Büttner

- Founded in 2016 as a subsidiary of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation Leipzig - Since November 2017 housed in the last residence of Bartholdy - Motto: Music-Encounter-Inspiration

Prof. Kurt Masur (1927-2015)

Life stages I • * 1927 in

Brieg/Silesia

• 1944-1945 Military service

• 1946-1948 studies in Leipzig

Life stages II

• 1948-1951 Theater Halle/Saale

• 1951-1954 Theater Erfurt

• 1953-1955 Theater Leipzig

• 1955-1958 Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra

• 1958-1960 General Music Director Theater Schwerin

• 1960-1964 Music Direktor Komische Oper Berlin

• 1967-1972 Chief Conductor Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra

• 1970-1997 Gewandhauskapellmeister

Event series „Meeting in the Gewandhaus“ in autumn 1989

Orchestre National de France with Masur

Scores of Kurt Masur

Kurt Masur with the violinist Isaac Stern

Impression from the exhibition

Central point of contact for people interested in the public figure Kurt Masur and a guide through the historical records in the various archives in Europe and the United States.

Cartoon from Al Hirschfeld