Colourful ‘MusicMosaic’
Interdisciplinary workshop of the Department of Early Music with dance, music and course concert
The Department of Early Music at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar is dedicating an interdisciplinary and cross-genre workshop to a period that was crucial for European music: the time around the year 1600.
The theme of the course ‘MusicMosaic’ from 1 to 7 February, which is aimed at both external participants and students of the Weimar Institute, is the radical innovations that took place in all fields of the arts and sciences at the end of the 16th and in the 17th century.
Building on earlier projects, the workshop offers individual lessons, chamber music, consort, improvisation, scenography, dance and lectures. ‘MusicMosaic’ is also planned as an introduction to a larger performance as part of the Baroque festival of the next ‘Bach Biennale Weimar’.
The first three days are dedicated to dance and scenography. From Tuesday, 4 February, a second block of different teaching formats, music, dance, stage work and lectures will explore the diverse musical and cultural-historical aspects of the topic.
At the course's final concert on Friday, 7 February at 7:30 p.m. in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus, the works, dances and scenes developed during the course will be performed in public. Admission is free!
The aim of the workshop is to understand early music as a holistic phenomenon and to place it in a historical, socio-cultural, artistic and aesthetic context. The team of lecturers would like to work with the course participants in a concentrated manner, experiment freely, discover new things and organise the public performance.
Harpsichords of different historical construction methods, virginal and chest organ, a 15-part Renaissance recorder consort by Adrian Brown, as well as lira da gamba, violone and all sizes of viol are available.
Further information and registration at: courses.ifamweimar(at)gmail.com
[22 January 2025]