Cristina Scuderi - Musicologist

The Italian musicologist Cristina Scuderi is currently working intensively on Giuseppe Tartini, on whose work she is organizing an international conference to be held at the University of Graz in December 2023. Her current research project will use Tartini's "School of Nations" (1728) as an example to investigate how musical skills were transferred from teacher to student in the 18th century. How did certain teaching methods spread through generations of students? How were they repeated and consolidated? What about the pan-European context between patrons and Tartini's students? Under what socio-professional conditions did pedagogical action take place? Tartini's figure is exemplary in that he transmitted different skills: instrumental, compositional, and theoretical. Outlining the identity of the "School of Nations" and mapping the European diaspora of its members makes it possible to follow the branches of a didactic tradition and understand the enormous influence it had on the ensembles at the courts of the time and on the musical institutions of each nation in general.