The handbook compiled by the inter-university research initiative ‘Music and Migration’ Wolfgang Gratzer / Nils Grosch / Ulrike Präger / Susanne Scheiblhofer (eds.), ‘The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration: Methodologies and Theories’, Routledge 2024 has just been nominated for the prestigious 2025 Award of the American Musicological Society.

On 8 May 2025, we will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. It remains a central task to keep the memory alive and to preserve peace and democracy. A series of (commemorative) events can be experienced at the Mozarteum University in the year of remembrance, which will look back at the starting points in order to build a bridge to the present.

In cooperation with the International Mozarteum Foundation, the Institute for the History of Musical Reception and Interpretation (IMRI) at the Mozarteum University Salzburg is organising a symposium on ‘Mozart Interpretations in Sound Recordings up to 1950’ in the Mozart Sound and Film Collection from 19 to 21 November 2025. We ask for proposals for papers relevant to the topic.