Link
https://musical-competitions.uni-koeln.de
Runtime
2016–2019
project participants
Institute of Musicology of the University of Cologne, CCeH. Project leads: Prof. Dr. Frank Hentschel, Dr. Andreas Domann. Staff members: Dr. Carola Bebermeier, Clemens Kreutzfeldt, Aleksander Marcic and Dr. Jonas Traudes. For other parties involved, see https://musical-competitions.uni-koeln.de/app/credits.
Funding
Funded by the DFG.
Description
The database, the bibliography and the accompanying outline of the history of music-related competitions in the period from 1820 to 1870 are the result of a research project carried out at the University of Cologne between January 2016 and June 2019. The aim of the project was to make musical prize competitions from the period 1820 to 1870 accessible for research. This includes compiling basic information in a Database available for research, publishing a Bibliography of theoretical essays and commentaries on prize competitions from that time and finally creating a first overview for a history of music-related competitions of the time. The project tied in with the contemporary discussion on competition in several disciplines; its results provide a guide to possible further studies on central material with regard to the history and sociology of aesthetic (musical) judgment. Those results bring musical practices, content, works and objects into focus that have played no or no significant role in the conventional master narratives (and are often unknown), although they can be substantial for a cultural-scientific view of music. The project focused on one type of source that provides the most comprehensive overview of the material: music-related periodicals. Accordingly, it saw itself as basic research that sifted through, indexed and outlined material on the basis of the most comprehensive corpus of sources.
Publications
Recommended citation: Bebermeier, Carola / Kreutzfeldt, Clemens / Traudes, Johannes (2020). “Musikalische Preisausschreiben 1820–1870: Ein historischer Grundriss.” In: Musikalische Preisausschreiben 1820–1870: Grundriss, Datenbank und Bibliografie auf Grundlage von Musikperiodika, ed. by Frank Hentschel and Andreas Domann, University of Cologne. DOI: 10.18716/MUS.PREIS.1820-70.
For a list of publications on musical competitions between 1820–1870, see https://musical-competitions.uni-koeln.de/app/bibliografie.