Vera Schwarz (harpsichordist)

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Vera Schwarz (born January 31, 1929 in Hamburg ; † June 29, 1980 in Vienna ) was a German harpsichordist , university teacher and music researcher.

Life

Vera Schwarz studied piano from 1947 to 1949 at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold . There she belonged to the master class of the pianist Conrad Hansen and additionally studied with the harpsichordist Irmgard Lechner. She then continued her studies with a focus on harpsichord in Hamburg with the pianist and harpsichordist Eliza Hansen . In 1954, Schwarz finished her studies in Detmold with a diploma examination.

In 1956 he moved to Vienna to study harpsichord with Eta Harich-Schneider . In 1958 she received the 1st prize for harpsichord at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. Appearances as a soloist (harpsichord and fortepiano) and in chamber music formations followed, accompanied by radio and vinyl recordings. From 1964 she directed a training class for harpsichord at the Music Academy in Graz . In 1971 she became an extraordinary one. Professor appointed, in 1977 full professor for harpsichord and performance practice.

In 1967 Vera Schwarz took over the management of the Institute for Early Music and Performance Practice (IAP) at the Graz University of Music in Graz (Austria) ; At the same time, the philosopher and music researcher Harald Kaufmann (1927–1970) set up the Institute for Valuation Research (now: Institute for Music Aesthetics) there. "Universalistic in their interests, interdisciplinary in their way of working, dialogical in their intellectual style, contextualizing in access to cultural phenomena, moved by inadequacies or even mistrust of the existing music business, both Schwarz and Kaufmann developed under the titles of 'performance practice' and 'valuation research'. forward-looking programs in which science and art were related. "

As the first director and at the same time chairman of this institute, Vera Schwarz first created a catalog of tasks which, in the initial phase of the institute, provided for the establishment of a library and the organization of courses for various historical instruments. She also organized “weekend talks”, from which the book series Contributions to Performance Practice emerged. At the same time she set up the Parnassum Musicum Graecensis ensemble and became president of the Society for Research into Performance Practice , which she founded .

From 1970 Vera Schwarz organized symposia with the aim of establishing a dialogue between representatives of the fields of theory and practice in music. Her view of early music and its performance practice was the subject of many of her courses and lectures in the USA and Sweden.

Awards

1st prize for harpsichord at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 1958

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Dorschel, Vera Schwarz and Harald Kaufmann: New musical thinking in the early years of the Second Republic , in Ingeborg Harer / Gudrun Rottensteiner (ed.), Wissenschaft und Praxis - Old and New (Graz: Leykam, 2017) (New contributions to performance practice 8), pp. 29 - 37, pp. 29f.
personal data
SURNAME Black, Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German harpsichordist and music researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1980
Place of death Vienna