Tomi Mäkelä

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Tomi Mäkelä (* 1964 in Lahti , Finland ) is a Finnish musicologist .

Life

He studied music in Lahti and Vienna as well as musicology in Helsinki, Vienna and Berlin (West). He learned piano with Rauno Jussila at the Päijät-Hämeen Conservatory Lahti, where he completed his piano pedagogical college education in 1982, and Noel Flores (concert subject at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts ). He received his doctorate in 1988 from the Technical University of Berlin under the supervision of Carl Dahlhaus and Helga de la Motte-Haber and completed his habilitation in 1990 at the University of Helsinki at the Institute for Musicology of the music semioticist Eero Tarasti with a thesis on concertante chamber music and chamber concerts in the 1920s. From 1996 to 2008 he was a professor at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg . Since 2009 he has been teaching as a professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

He has published on a variety of topics from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as music theory and education. His book on Jean Sibelius Poetry in the Air (Breitkopf & Härtel 2007) received the Humanities International Prize in 2008 and was published in Steven Lindberg's English translation as Jean Sibelius (2011). In 2015 Mäkelä made his debut at the Digital Concert Hall as a Carl Nielsen specialist.

Works (selection)

  • Virtuosity and work character. An analytical and theoretical investigation into virtuosity in the piano concertos of the high romanticism (= Berlin musicological works 37), Katzbichler, Munich / Salzburg 1989, ISBN 3-87397-077-5 .
  • Aarre Merikantos Concert ("Schott Concert") (= Nordic Masterpieces 2, edited by Heinrich W. Schwab and Harald Herrestahl), Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1996.
  • as ed. with Tobias Robert Klein (ed.), Multilingualism and regional ties in music and literature (= Interdisciplinary Studies on Music 1), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-631-52331-9 .
  • Sound and line from "Pierrot lunaire" to "Ionisation". Studies on the interaction of special ensembles, form formation and tone color polyphony (= interdisciplinary studies on music 3), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-631-52891-4 .
  • together with David D. Dill, Sanjit K. Mitra, Hans Siggaard Jensen, Erno Lehtinen, Anna Parpala, Hannele Pohjola, Mary A. Ritter, Seppo Saari: Training and the Knowledge-Based Society. An Evaluation of Doctoral Education in Finland (= Publications of the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council 2006, 1, FHEEC), Tampere 2006.
  • Jean Sibelius. "Poetry in the Air". Studies on life and work , Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden / Leipzig / Paris 2007, ISBN 978-3-7651-0363-6 .
  • Sibelius, I have to . Teos, Helsinki 2007, ISBN 978-951-851-097-3 .
  • Fredrik Pacius, kompositör i Finland , Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland, Helsinki 2009, ISBN 978-951-583-192-7 .
  • Jean Sibelius , Boydell, Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, NY 2011, ISBN 978-1-84383-688-9 .
  • Jean Sibelius and his time , Laaber, Laaber 2013, ISBN 978-3-89007-767-3 .
  • Friedrich Pacius . A German composer in Finland . With an edition of the diaries, letters and working materials by Silke Bruns, Georg Olms, Hildesheim a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-487-15123-6 .
  • Saariaho , Sibelius and others. New heroes of the new north. 100 years of music and education in Finland , Georg Olms, Hildesheim a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-487-15128-1 .
  • with Christoph Kammertöns , Lena Esther Ptasczynski: Friedrich Wieck - Collected writings on music and musicians […] (= Interdisciplinary Studies on Music 10), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-631-76747-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prize 2008: Geisteswissenschaften International In: boersenverein.de, July 10, 2008, accessed on January 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ Carl Nielsen and Arnold Schönberg. September 19, 2015, accessed January 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Interdisciplinary Studies in Music. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
  4. ^ Literature on Finnish Music - Jean Sibelius Gesellschaft Deutschland eV In: sibelius-gesellschaft.de , accessed on January 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Mäkelä, Tomi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish musicologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahti , Finland