Historically Informed Violin II: German Violin Music of the Seventeenth Century | 19-20.11.2026
The Department of Early Music of the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków invites you to the second edition of the Historically Informed Violin conference, dedicated to seventeenth-century violin practice in Germany.
The conference will provide an opportunity to explore together how historical knowledge, the study of sources and research into historical instruments can inform and shape performance practice. Particular attention will be given to the relationship between theory and practice, bringing scholarly findings into dialogue with musicians’ experience, experiments with historical instruments and bows, and the exploration of different acoustic environments. The conference will offer a space for exchanging ideas, experiences and inspiration, bringing musicological perspectives into conversation with the living experience of performance.
Admission free.
Coordination: dr hab. Teresa Piech
Programme
Kraków, 19–20 November 2026
Thursday 19 November 2026
Room 23, AMKP
ŚwiętegoTomasza 43
10:00 Lectures
prof. Greta Haenen (Brema / Germany) 17th-century Violin playing in Germany
Michiel de Hoog (Dublin / Ireland) Reconstruction and Re-Creation: Working with Original Instruments and Historical Copies
prof. Plamena Nikitassova (Monachium / Germany) Aspects of low violin posture between 1600–1800
prof. Susanne Scholz (Graz / Austria) …simile a colui ch’impara di spada… a Metaphor by Silvestro Ganassi as Guide for an Applied and Embodied Knowledge in Historical Performance Practice
dr Ibo Ortgies (Göteborg / Sweden) Between Theory and Practice: Tuning, Temperament and Ensemble Intonation in the 17th Century in Germany
dr hab. Teresa Piech (Kraków / Poland) From Sources to Sound: An Experimental Approach to 17th-Century German Violin Practice
14:00 break
15:30-20:00 Workshops
Friday 20 November 2026
Room 23, AMKP
Świętego Tomasza 43
9:00-14:00 | 16:00-20:00 Workshops