The Prague Conservatory as a Centre of European Music Culture in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century: Influences of the Prague Violin School and Migrations of its Representatives through Europe
About the ProjectType of a Project: Postdoctoral Research Project
Project Manager: Maruša Zupančič, PhD | ZRC SAZU Duration: 1 July 2014–28 February 2018 (28 months in total) Code: Z6-6847 Funded by: Slovenian Research Agency Managed at: Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts | Institute of Musicology |
This research validates the current ambition of Europe to strengthen its unity on the basis of a common cultural heritage. In a not so remote past, intensive exchanges in Europe's art scene were widespread and they were only hampered temporarily by the nationalistic reveilles and other geopolitical evolutions." |
Abstract
The study was interested in the dimensions of the impacts that the Prague violin school left in Europe and to what extent the Slovenian territory, which received strong musical influences from the Czech Lands in general and this school in particular, was embedded into the European musical scene. The research investigated the various motivations for migrations (geographic, political, linguistic etc.), and also focused on the biographical data of the Prague violinists between 1811 and 1919.
By demonstrating the extensive migration of Prague violinists between 1811 and 1919, the historical importance of their contribution to the development of violin playing in Europe and Slovenia was displayed for the first time. The visualization of the results and integration of the research into the various musical events have contributed to bringing science closer to a wider circle of music lovers. The present research filled some of the uncharted areas of musicology in the field of music migrations and violin performing. It also corrected a considerable amount of omissions from the Czech music history that had lost the traces of many of its own musicians who emigrated across Europe and to the United States. New biographical data for 1160 Prague violinists and numerous other important facts relevant to musical history were introduced for the very first time. New views of the research significantly complemented and refreshed the historic view on the development of the performance of one of the most important musical instruments. The contribution of the overlooked Prague violinists to the development of violin playing in Europe and in the United States during the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth century was evaluated.
By demonstrating the extensive migration of Prague violinists between 1811 and 1919, the historical importance of their contribution to the development of violin playing in Europe and Slovenia was displayed for the first time. The visualization of the results and integration of the research into the various musical events have contributed to bringing science closer to a wider circle of music lovers. The present research filled some of the uncharted areas of musicology in the field of music migrations and violin performing. It also corrected a considerable amount of omissions from the Czech music history that had lost the traces of many of its own musicians who emigrated across Europe and to the United States. New biographical data for 1160 Prague violinists and numerous other important facts relevant to musical history were introduced for the very first time. New views of the research significantly complemented and refreshed the historic view on the development of the performance of one of the most important musical instruments. The contribution of the overlooked Prague violinists to the development of violin playing in Europe and in the United States during the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth century was evaluated.
Maruša Zupančič
Maruša Zupančič graduated in musicology at the University of Ljubljana in 2007. In the same year, she got engaged as a junior researcher at the Institute of Musicology ZRC SAZU. In 2012, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of Ljubljana with a dissertation on the development of violin playing in the Slovene lands until the beginning of the Second World War. Since 2015, she is a research fellow at the Institute of Musicology, where her work is focused primarily on music migration and the development of violin playing in Europe from the 18th until the 20th century. In 2006/2007 she studied at the Masaryk University in Brno and in 2008/2009 at the Charles University in Prague, where she was doing also an internship at The Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. For several months, she furthered her studies in Boston and New York in the United States and in Leuven, Belgium. In 2017, she was on a one-month research visit at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts as well as at the Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb. She regularly presents her findings at the International Musicological Conferences and specializes in Digital Humanities (Göttingen, Oxford, Amsterdam, The Hague, Budapest). In 2018, she received an international certificate "Digital Marketing Professional" (Digital Marketing Institute, Dublin, Ireland). She is a member of several international musicological societies and organizational boards.
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