Conny Restle
Conny Restle (born November 18, 1960 in Munich ) is a German musicologist , museum director and university lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts .
Life
Restle passed the Abitur in 1980 at the humanistic Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . From 1980 to 1985 she studied musicology, Latin philology of the Middle Ages and German philology of the Middle Ages at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After completing her studies with a Magister Artium, she worked for the Society for Bavarian Music History from 1986 to 1989. In 1989 Restle received his doctorate in musicology with a thesis on Bartolomeo Cristofori and the beginnings of the hammer piano .
From 1989 to 1991 she was scientific assistant and responsible for coordinating the research project " Harpsichord - Hammerclaviere" of the Austrian Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research in Vienna. In 1992 Restle went to the Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research Berlin (SIMPK) and has been a manager there since 1994.
Since 2002 Restle has been director of the Musical Instrument Museum and university professor at the same time. In 2012 she was appointed honorary professor at the Berlin University of the Arts .
Her main research interests include not only keyboard instruments, but also instruments from antiquity, the Middle Ages and the 16th to early 20th centuries. In addition, she devoted herself to research on acoustics and historical performance practice .
Restle is a member of the editorial board of musica instrumentalis - magazine for organology .
Fonts
- Bartolomeo Cristofori and the beginnings of the hammer piano , Munich 1991
- Berlin Musical Instrument Museum. Inventory catalog , Berlin no year (together with Dagmar Droysen-Reber )
- New acquisitions 1993–1994. 10 years of the Musical Instrument Museum at the Kulturforum , Berlin 1994
- The Berlin Bach harpsichord. A myth and its consequences , Berlin 1995 (Ed.)
- Fascination piano - 300 years of piano manufacturing in Germany , Munich 2000 (Ed.)
- Richard Strauss in Imperial Berlin , Berlin 2001 (Ed.)
- Fascination Clarinet , Munich 2004 (Ed. With Heike Fricke)
- Beethoven and the Hammerklavier , in: Sound and Concept. Perspectives on musical theory and practice , ed. on behalf of the State Institute for Music Research Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin, by Thomas Ertelt and Conny Restle, Vol. 2, Beethoven's Piano Variations op. 34 , Berlin 2007
- Fascination Guitar , Berlin 2010 (Ed. With Christopher Li)
- Edited with Christian Breternitz: Valve. Brass. Music. 200 years of valve wind instruments , Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-89479-836-9
- Good vibrations. A History of Electronic Musical Instruments / A History of Electronic Musical Instruments , Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-422-07401-9 (Ed. With Benedikt Brilmayer and Sarah-Indriyati Hardjowirogo)
Web links
- Literature by and about Conny Restle in the catalog of the German National Library
- Prof. Dr. Conny Restle. University of Art in Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Restle, Conny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Restle, Conny Sibylla (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist, museum director and professor at the Berlin University of the Arts |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |