Transmitting Musical Knowledge in 18th Century Violin Schools

The Department of Art and Musicology is delighted to invite you to the lecture "Transmitting Musical Knowledge in 18th Century Violin Schools: the Case of Tartini's Scuola delle Nazioni in a Pan-European Perspective" by PD Dr. Cristina Scuderi.

The talk will focus on issues related to the transmission of musical skills from teacher to pupil in the 18th century through the example of Tartini's School of Nations (1728). A new international project will be presented, based on the study of the spreading, replication and consolidation of teaching methods over generations of students. The project also wishes to investigate the network of relationships between patrons and Tartini's students in a pan-European context, in order to frame the socio-professional conditions within which educational action took place. The figure of Tartini is exemplary in that he conveyed at one time strong instrumental skills, compositional abilities and solid theoretical notions. Outlining the identity of the School of Nations and mapping the European diaspora of its members means being able to follow the branches of a didactic tradition and understand the enormous influence it had on the musical chapels in the courts of the time and on the musical institutions of individual nations more generally. 

The lecture is creditable for MUWI AKTUELL!