Insights into Joseph Joachim's work
At the Brahms Institute of the Musikhochschule Lübeck (MHL), Swiss doctoral candidate Christoph Arta is researching Joseph Joachim's work at the interface of higher education, concert organization, composition and interpretation.
The 24-year-old Swiss musicologist has taken up his position as a trainee and doctoral candidate at the Brahms Institute via the Center for Cultural Studies Research Lübeck (ZKFL). He will be researching Joachim's work with a focus on the structures of musical life at the time that still have an impact today.
The Brahms-Institut was also able to acquire a bundle of 18 previously unknown letters and album pages. It includes private and business correspondence that Joseph Joachim wrote himself in a very clear handwriting or dictated at the end of his life. The letters, which are addressed to Theodor Fürchtegott Kirchner and Florence May, among others, offer a revealing insight into Joachim's life as a violin virtuoso. Of particular interest is an album leaf from 1884 on which Joachim, who is considered a pioneer in the rediscovery of Bach's solo violin works, quotes bars from Johann Sebastian Bach's Largo ma non tanto (BWV 1043).
Original article: https://www.brahms-institut.de/index.php?cID=1031
Info about Christoph Arta: https://www.brahmsinstitut.de/index.php?cID=217
