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ITALIENTAG in Kassel in June 2025 featuring the Director of the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani

The University of Kassel's 11th Italientag will take place at the Kassel City Museum (Ständeplatz 16, 34117 Kassel) on June 24, 2025 from 1 through 6 PM. The musicologist Richard Erkens, who has been serving as director of the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani since 2023, will be joining us on this occasion, too. He will give a lecture on Italian opera production in the 18th century and its impact on the northern Alpine region for a broader, interdisciplinary audience, thereby providing insights into his recent research on the subject. Anyone interested is most welcome!  

GUEST LECTURE in Weimar in June 2025

Carolin Krahn will deliver a talk at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT's Institute of Musicology Weimar-Jena on June 11, 2025. The paper will center on Knud Jeppesen's conception of a music history of the Cinquecento.

FIELD TRIP to Vienna in May 2025 

The six-day excursion to Vienna offers 15 students from Kassel University to explore Vienna, the so-called “city music”, as a multi-layered urban space with simultaneous musical practices. A cooperation with the Chair of Ethnomusicology at the University of Vienna provides insights into ongoing ethnomusicological research projects, supplemented by expeditions through local musical scenes and visits to leading museums and archives at the interface of Historical Musicology and Ethnomusicology. This field trip is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Department of Music at the University of Kassel and funds from the Chair of Historical Musicology. It opens up an intradisciplinary perspective on music, its practice and history in one of Europe's hot spots of musical culture. In addition to that, an intensive seminar will be preparing for the trip to Vienna in early summer. 

COOPERATION with the international research project "TartinianS" from spring 2025

As of next spring, the division of Historical Musicology (Prof. Dr. Carolin Krahn) will be cooperating with a consortium from the Universities of Graz (PD. Dr. Cristina Scuderi) and Greifswald (Prof. Dr. Gesa zur Nieden) as well as the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Dr. Agnese Pavanello) as part of the recently approved research project ‘Transmitting Musical Knowledge in Eighteenth Century European Violin Playing: Tartini’s Scuola delle Nazioni in Light of its Transnational Networks (Pupils, Patrons, Printers)’, in short: ‘TartinianS’. Research funding in Germany, Austria and Switzerland from the DFG, FWF and SNF was acquired as part of the EU-wide ‘Weave’ procedure (for further information: https://weave-research.net/about/).

Update: Carolin Krahn stepped down from leading a sub-project in the context of "TartianS" due to incompatibility with her duties as part-time chair of Historical Musicology. 

TEACHING
In the winter term 2024/2025, two courses will be offered in the field of Historical Musicology: Introduction to Musicology and Music History I. Further information on these courses can be found in the University's course catalog.

ROUND TABLE
The following round table will take place as part of the annual conference of the Società italiana di Musicologia in Florence (October 25 through 27, 2024):Transmitting Musical Knowledge in Eighteenth Century European Violin Playing: Tartini’s Scuola delle Nazioni in Light of its Transnational Networks (Pupils, Patrons, Printers)
Participants: Cristina Scuderi, Agnese Pavanello, Gesa zur Nieden, Carolin Krahn, Chiara Zuanni, Marcella Tambuscio