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
- Schools involved 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
- Head of project Simon Gertschen
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            Project staff
                    
                        Dr. Claudio Bacciagaluppi
                    
                
 Sebastian Bausch
 Prof. Dr. Manuel Bärtsch
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            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.
Video Magic Piano
 
    