Music Research Seminar

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About the talk

American Pianists and Anti-Americanism in Germany and Austria around 1900

The Golden Age of the Piano was a time during which thousands of Americans made grand tours to German-speaking Europe to study piano. According to their descriptions, anti-Americanism played a significant role in this transatlantic cultural exchange. This talk will show that anti-American sentiments were not a uniquely European phenomenon, but actually played a significant role in the cultural life of America at the time, and were accordingly a factor that shaped every aspect of this transatlantic migration.

About the speaker

Marten Noorduin obtained a PhD in 2016 in Manchester with a thesis on Beethoven’s tempo indications, and held a postdoctoral position at the University of Oxford before moving to Germany. There, he has been involved several large projects, including a DFG-project on anti-Americanism and American pianists at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. He is currently the PI on a 3-year project hosted by the State Institute for Music Research in Berlin focusing on the history of orchestral rehearsals.

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