The research center was founded in 1986 at the instigation of the Cologne musicologist Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller and the Japanese music researcher Akio Mayeda , is based in Düsseldorf and has been in the Karl-Arnold-Haus der Wissenschaften since February 2007 . The research center is organized as a subsidiary of the Düsseldorf Robert Schumann Society ; Ulrich Konrad from the University of Würzburg has been the director since 2007 . In addition to the Robert Schumann House in Zwickau, the most important scientific institution in this research area has three full-time employees in Düsseldorf and one in Zwickau. From the beginning there was close cooperation between the two research centers, beyond the system boundaries at the time.
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Recently, together with the Robert-Schumann-Haus Zwickau and the music academy Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, a joint letter file was created and a Schumann letter edition was published. The research center has also been editing the New Schumann Complete Edition since 1991, which is made up of around 60 volumes; It is funded by the Union of German Academies of Sciences in Mainz and the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony . The founding editor is Bernhard R. Appel , who has been with the research center since the beginning. It is published by Schott Verlag .
