Beethoven's compositional processes innovatively decoded
"Beethoven's Workshop" at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz combines genetic text criticism and digital music editing. Johannes Kepper is tackling the project at Paderborn University.
Genetic textual criticism is dedicated to compositional writing processes, which can be observed and approximately reconstructed both in individual autographs and in the sequence of interrelated workshop manuscripts (sketches, working manuscripts, lists of corrections, etc.). Writing processes provide information about Beethoven's compositional thinking, actions and decisions. Source documents and text-genetic results will be presented digitally as part of the project.
The musicologist Johannes Kepper has now taken up his academy professorship (W2) in the field of digital music editing and digital humanities. The professorship complements the Department of Musicology/Digital Music Edition at the Detmold/Paderborn Musicology Seminar of the Faculty of Cultural Studies at Paderborn University. In addition to his involvement in the academy project Beethoven's Workshop, Kepper will support the expansion of the "Center Music - Edition - Media" (ZenMEM) and the deepening of the range of courses in this area. He will take over from Joachim Veit as co-project manager of the academy project.
More info: beethovens-werkstatt.de
