Musician migration in the early modern period is being researched
A research project dealing with musician migrations in the early modern period between Eastern, Western and Southern Europe will be funded by the EU with almost one million euros over the next three years.
The aim of the project is to collect as much information as possible about the migration of musicians in the 17th and 18th centuries and bring it together in a database.
Information about individuals - including not only instrumentalists, but also composers, singers, music theorists and music publishers - will also be placed in a larger context in order to understand migration and the mobility of early modern musicians as a cultural phenomenon.
Scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and research groups in Berlin, Zagreb (Croatia), Warsaw (Poland) and Ljubljana (Slovenia) are involved in the research project. It is one of 15 projects that have been selected from a total of 593 applications for EU funding under the "HERA - Humanities in the European Research Area" line.
The database work will build on a previous project to record musician migration (ANR-DFG project Musici).
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