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What did Nuremberg shoemakers and tailors sing about? How did Luther’s ideas change the course of music history? What music did Venetians play in churches and what dances did Italian women amuse themselves with in Dürer’s time? When and why did music ‘Fantasia’ emerge? What is the difference between a motet and a frottola?
Music from Albrecht Dürer’s time and its relationship to the works of the German artist and his contemporaries will be discussed by:
— Svetlana Murashkina, curator of the Hermitage collection of German 15-16th-century engravings
— Natalia Sapman, curator of the German 15-18th-century drawings collection
— Olga Zubova, associate professor at the Department of Music Theory of the Moscow Conservatory and researcher of Italian 13-16th-century music.
The public talk is part of the co-project of musicAeterna, the State Hermitage Museum, and VTB Bank for the exhibition of drawings and engravings by Albrecht Dürer, ‘Dürer. The Music Dimension’.
For the opening of the exhibition, Teodor Currentzis, Dom Radio composers-in-residence Alexey Retinsky and Andreas Moustoukis, musicAeterna’s conductor Fedor Lednev, and musicAeterna’s choirmaster Vitaly Polonsky have compiled a selection of music that, in their opinion, can help the audience to immerse in the context of the exhibition and look at Dürer’s works through a special — musical — lens.