Magic Piano – Revival of old Piano Traditions
In the past 12 years, the Bern University of the Arts HKB has been engaged in a wide spectrum of research into piano rolls as source documents of the art of interpretation of composers and pianists in around 1900.
Factsheet
- Lead school Bern Academy of the Arts
- Institute(s) Institute Interpretation
- Research unit(s) Performance and interpretation
- Funding organisation SNSF
- Duration 01.04.2020 - 30.09.2022
- Project management Dr. Thomas Gartmann
- Head of project Simon Gertschen
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Project staff
Dr. Claudio Bacciagaluppi
Sebastian Bausch
Prof. Dr. Manuel Bärtsch -
Partner
Burgergemeinde Bern
Swisslos/Kulturförderung Graubünden
Agentur Webbear
Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana Lugano
Festival Musiksommer am Zürichsee
Gymnasium Hofwil
HKB Hochschule der Künste Bern
Hochschule für Musik – FHNW
Hotel Waldhaus Sils
Konservatorium Bern
Stiftung Künstlerhaus Boswil
Museum für Musikautomaten - Sammlung Dr. h.c. H. Weiss-Stauffacher
Neidhart Grafik
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Situation
Its research results have been presented at international symposiums, in doctoral theses, anthology volumes, articles and on CDs. The sources, data, findings and results of this research are now intended to be communicated to a very broad public by means of concerts, discussions and workshops, but most of all by letting them engage with the topic themselves. Our main goals are to get people to listen more keenly, and to play more freely, in order to become acquainted with “interpretation” as a discipline of its own.
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