Learning Objective
The programme is designed to help students determine their own position in the field of ever changing performance practices. Many of the things composers such as Beethoven and Brahms would have expected from musicians performing their pieces, have been forgotten or discarded over time. Which choices do musicians of the twenty-first century have when it comes to finding a personal approach to nineteenth-century music, and what role can information from historical sources play in this process?

Course Content
Johannes Leertouwer conducted his (PhD) research into the 19th century performance practise of Brahms’s orchestral music at CvA. In the process of his research project he recorded the four Brahms symphonies and the four concertos. 
Through a combination of lectures, assignments and coaching sessions he intends to instruct and encourage students top find their own path in the field of historically informed performance practice of nineteenth-century repertoire.