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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/).

The central objective of the project is to systematically research the violin school founded in Padua in 1727 by the violinist, composer and music teacher Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770), which expanded throughout Europe in the early stages of professionalisation and the founding of conservatories. The project focuses on the activities of well-known members of the aforementioned musical network such as Pietro Nardini and Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen; it also examines the dissemination of violin repertoire by early modern publishers and editions of manuscript materials on Tartini’s pedagogy and performance practice.

Kassel’s expertise will be incorporated into the research primarily through a sub-project on plurimedial music historiography based in Italy. This will focus on the myth of both the Scuola delle Nazioni and the figure of Giuseppe Tartini, which has become entrenched in various regions, languages and publishing contexts in Europe. The new research project has recently been presented for the first time at the annual conference of the Società italiana di Musicologia in Florence on 26 October 2024.

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