Welcome to an open lecture with Siglind Bruhn, music researcher, concert pianist and honorary doctor at Linnaeus University.
About the lecture
1973 the famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin commissioned from the Swiss composer Frank Martin a concerto for violin and string orchestra with which to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the International Music Council.
The desired scoring reminded Frank of Bach's concertos, with which he felt he should not compete. Thus he suggested a compromise: he would write a suite in six movements, each of them based on one or more panels from the famous Passion polyptych on the rear of Duccio di Buoninsegna's Siena Maestà — a kind of "instrumental passion music."
About Siglind Bruhn
Siglind Bruhn is a music analyst/musicologist, concert pianist, and interdisciplinary scholar. She works at the University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities in the fields of "Music and Literature" and "Music in Interdisciplinary Dialogue". In 2008 she received an honorary doctorate from Linnaeus University. Read more at Siglind Bruhn's personal webb page.
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