Bettina Hoffmann (musician)

Bettina Hoffmann (* 1959 in Düsseldorf ) is a German viol player , baroque cellist and musicologist . She plays viola da gamba, violoncello as well as lira da gamba , Fidel and Rebec .

Bettina Hoffmann

Life

Bettina Hoffmann studied the cello at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim with Daniel Grosgurin and viol with Wieland Kuijken .

Together with Federico Maria Sardelli , she leads the Ensemble Modo Antiquo , one of Italy's leading groups in the field of historical performance practice. She has given concerts in Europe both as a soloist and with Modo Antiquo and has been to the international festivals Ambraser Schloßkonzerte Innsbruck, Festival van Vlaanderen, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Holland Festival Oude Muziek, Musica a San Maurizio, Milano, Festival d'Ambronay, Regensburger Tage Early Music, La Scala Milano, Potsdam Music Festival, Days of Early Music Herne and Musica Antica Magnano.

Bettina Hoffmann's discography today includes over seventy CD recordings, released by various labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, Naïve, CPO, Amadeus, Opus 111, Dynamic, Brilliant Classics, Tactus, etc. Among them are a selection from the works for gamba by Marin Marais (CD “Idées grotesques”), suites for viol and thoroughbass from the Scherzi Musicali by Johannes Schenck , the recercadas by Diego Ortiz and the first recording of the works for viol by Silvestro Ganassi . In 1997 and 2000, two of her CDs received Grammy Awards nominations . Your recordings of medieval music were funded by WDR.

As a musicologist, she mainly deals with the history of the viol and the violoncello. In 2001 she published a catalog of solo and chamber music for gamba. In 2010 L'Epos published “La Viola da gamba”, a comprehensive history of the viol, which was translated into German in 2014. She edited works for viol and violoncello by Gabrielli, Ganassi and Vivaldi in critical editions and critical facsimile editions for Bärenreiter-Verlag , SPES and the “Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi” in Venice.

Bettina Hoffmann is a lecturer in viol, baroque cello and baroque chamber music at the Vicenza Conservatory and at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. In 2010 she published a viol school at the Carisch publishing house. In 2011 she launched the Italian Gambentag, which was awarded his personal medal by President Giorgio Napolitano.

Bettina Hoffmann has lived in Florence since 1982.

Discography (selection)

• Marin Marais, Idées grotesques , Suites for viol and figured bass, Amadeus, 2010
• Girolamo Frescobaldi, Madrigali , Brilliant Classics, Frescobaldi edition, 2010
• Girolamo Frescobaldi, Arie musicali , first complete recording, Brilliant Classics, Frescobaldi edition, 2009
• Secular Songs & Dances from the Middle Ages , Brilliant Classics, 2006
• Francesco Colombini, Concerti ecclesiastici and Mottetti concertati , Tactus, 2004
• Domenico Gabrielli, Complete Works for Violoncello, Tactus, 2001
• The music of the crusaders , Amadeus Speciale, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, 2000
• Johann Schenck, Suites from Scherzi Musicali op.VI for gamba and figured bass, Dynamic, 1999
• Carmina Burana , Amadeus speciale, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, 1999, Brilliant Classics, 2006
• Diego Ortiz e Silvestro Ganassi, Complete Works for Viol, Tactus, 1998
• Dança Amorosa , The Italian Instrumental Dances of the Middle Ages, Opus 111, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, 1995
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonatas for viol and harpsichord, Arts

Bettina Hoffmann, "The Viola da Gamba", Ortus Verlag

Musicological publications

• The Viola da Gamba , Berlin, Ortus Musikverlag, 2014
• Article Viola da gamba, violoncello, contrabbasso , in "Handel Lexicon" (Handel Handbook, Vol. 6, edited by Hans Joachim Marx ). Laaber, Laaber Verlag, 2011
• La viola da gamba , L'Epos, 2010
• L'arte di suonare la viola da gamba. Metodo in musica , Milano, Edizioni Carisch, 2010
• The Nomenclature of the Viol in Italy , in "The Viola da Gamba Society Journal", vol. 2, 2008, pp. 1-16
• Antonio Vivaldi, Opere per viola da gamba (viola all'inglese), Firenze, Edizione SPES, 2006
• 'Viola' - gamba, viola or cello? Problems of cataloging baroque viol music in Italy after 1640 , In “Viola da gamba and Viola da braccio. Symposium as part of the 27th Days of Early Music in Herne 2002 », published by the City of Herne, edited by Christian Ahrens and Gregor Klinke, Munich, Salzburg, Verlag Katzbichler, 2006, pp. 179–201.
• Il violoncello all'inglese , in “Studi Vivaldiani”, IV, 2004, pp. 43–52.
• Dal concerto alto al concerto basso: accordature delle viole da gamba nell'Italia del Cinquecento , in “Recercare”, XVI, 2004, pp. 23–68.
• Catalog of solo and chamber music works for viola da gamba. Criteria and method of cataloging in viola da gamba Baryton Arpeggione, Festschrift for the Alfred Lessing Symposium , Düsseldorf 2000, edited by Bernhard R. Appel and Johannes Boer, STIMU, 2004, pp. 121–124
• Antonio Vivaldi, Le sonate per violoncello , critical edition, Kassel, Bärenreiter-Verlag, 2003
• Antonio Vivaldi, Le sonate per violoncello , critical facsimile edition of all sources, SPES, 2003
• Catalogo della musica solistica e cameristica per viola da gamba , Lucca, LIM, Libreria Musicale Italiana, Antiqua, 2001
• Domenico Gabrielli, L'opera completa per violoncello , critical edition, Hortus Musicus, Bärenreiter-Verlag, 2001
• Silvestro Ganassi, Opere per viola da gamba , Bologna, Ut Orpheus, 1998
• Georg Muffat, Regulae Concentuum Partiturae , Bologna, Associazione Clavicembalistica Bolognese editore, 1991

Web links

• Works by Bettina Hoffmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bettina Hoffmann on the Modo Antiquo website