Deutsches Musikinformationszentrum

To this end, it provides statistics, structural data and background information and offers guidance on current funding opportunities, specialist events and further education and training courses in the field of music.

[3] Central areas of responsibility are: In addition, the MIZ takes up current topics and presents them in separate focal points.

[6] At irregular intervals, the MIZ also publishes print publications, most recently the compendium "Musikleben in Deutschland",[7] which also appeared in an English translation.

In addition to updating the institutional database, the MIZ was assigned numerous other tasks when it was founded, which aimed to focus on musical life as a whole.

[13] Since its foundation, the work of the MIZ has been accompanied by an advisory board, which includes representatives from professional associations, collecting societies, documentation, science and teaching as well as cultural policy.

[14] The first chairman of the advisory board in 1997 was the then executive director of the Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv Frankfurt und Potsdam-Babelsberg, Joachim-Felix Leonhard [de].