ConTAKT

09.10.2024

A rather extravagant man
News about Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger

Guest Accademia degli Stravaganti: Anne Marie Dragosits (harpsichord),
Ulrike Hofbauer (soprano), Niels Pfeffer (theorbo)
Moderated by Ilse Strauß and Franz Gratl

The internationally successful Tyrolean musician Anne Marie Dragosits, winner of the Jakob Stainer Prize of the Province of Tyrol 2022, has spent the last few years intensively researching the life and work of a grand master of the early Baroque, Johann Hieronymus (or Giovanni Girolamo) Kapsberger. In her book Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger - Ein ziemlich extravaganter Mann (Lucca 2020), which is as comprehensive as it is rich in content, she has published groundbreaking new findings on his biography and also reassessed the previous view of the work of the great lute virtuoso and composer. This exciting scientific journey of discovery is not yet over: She is still trawling through the archives and continues to find new documents. In the first part of the evening, she will talk about her research work and introduce us to Kapsberger's personality. In the second part, a concert lasting around an hour, she will take us on a journey into the musical world of the cosmopolitan master, who was born in Venice, went to school in Augsburg and established himself in Rome, with soprano Ulrike Hofbauer and lutenist Niels Pfeffer.

04.12.2024

The monk in the rose garden
The life of the Carthusian monk and translator Heinrich Haller at the end of the Middle Ages

Guest Max Siller (Germanist), Ensemble Rosarum flores
Idea, concept and moderation Ilse Strauß and Franz Gratl

Max Siller, Professor of Germanic Medieval Studies at the University of Innsbruck (retired), will present an overview of the person and work of the Carthusian monk Heinrich Haller, who lived in the Schnals Charterhouse in the Middle Ages. As a monk, he was not allowed to leave his cell, but his translations took him on imaginated pilgrimages and fantastic journeys to other worlds, both terrible and paradisiacal. There is also music of the time, including by Oswald von Wolkenstein and from the exciting Codex 457 of the Innsbruck University Library, which comes from the Schnals Charterhouse.