Course details

teacher Johannes Leertouwer
term September 2025-June 2026
participation Master students of all principal subjects (instrumentalists, singers, conductors, composers)
method of instruction Live and zoom lectures, reflections on articles, recordings and performances in the form of assignments and coaching sessions on nineteenth-century repertoire.  All appointments and scheduled lessons will be planned in coordination with the participating students.
readings * Georg Barth, Effacing Modernism, or How to Perform Less Accurately through Listening. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018.
  * Clive Brown, Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900. Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  * Kai Köpp, Handbuch Orchesterpraxis Barock – Klassik - Romantik. Kasel: Bärenreiter, 2013
  * Johannes Leertouwer, Re-inventing the Nineteenth-Century Tools of Unprescribed Modifications of Rhythm and Tempo in Performances of Brahms’s Symphonies and Concertos. PhD diss. Leiden University, 2023.
  * Bert Mooiman, An Improvisatory Approach to Nineteenth-Century Music. PhD diss. Leiden University, 2021.
  * Anna Scott, Romanticizing Brahms: Early Recordings and the Reconstruction of Brahmsian Identity. PhD diss. Leiden University, 2014.
  * Emlyn Stam, In Search of a Lost Language: Performing in Early-Recorded Style in Viola and String Quartet Repertoires. PhD diss. Leiden University, 2019.
credits 5
  History of the Orchestra
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