Seminar «Russian music in the musicology of the Netherlands 1940-1960-ies: perception, publications, documents and sources»

On Monday, December 5 at 14.00 in the White Hall of Russian Institute for Art History, Olga de Kort (Netherlands) will present a seminar «Russian music in the musicology of the Netherlands 1940-1960-ies: perception, publications, documents and sources».

First acquaintance with Russian musical tradition for Dutch people took place in the years of the reign of Queen Anna Pavlovna (1795-1865), daughter of Paul the I-st and the wife of King William II of Orange. Thanks to her endeavours the Netherlands discovered the Russian church music. In the middle of the XIX century there was an interest of Dutch artists and music lovers to the Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Borodin oeuvre. Despite of keen interest in Russian music, the first critical and musicological publications have appeared only in the twenties-thirties of the twentieth century. In the following three decades, finally established a stereotypes and preferences to the “Russian theme” in Netherland’s musicology, wich influenced the formation of perception of music of Russian and Soviet composers in the 1940-1960.

As a musicologist and music critic Olga de Kort (Breda, Netherlands) was educated in Russia (piano, history of culture and art), France (journalism) and the Netherlands (musicology and music history, music education and communication, piano and organ). She works as an editor in the journal «Piano Bulletin», as a music criticist at «Luister», «Pianist», «Piano Bulletin», «De Klank», «Timbres» magazines, as a lecturer in the history of music and culture, as an invited senior lecturer on Russian music at the conservatories of The Netherlands, as a Secretary of the Centre for education and documentation of the Dutch and the Belgian branch of the European Piano teachers Association (EPTA). She is the author of about three hundred articles, interviews and reviews, published in the Dutch music magazines. She is currently working on a book about the Russian music and musicians in the Netherlands and wrote biographies of Russian singer Anna El-Tur and the Dutch pianist Hugo van Dalen. In addition to her personal journalist blog, Olga de Kort has a special page on the Internet about the Russian music in the Netherlands (Russische muziek in Nederland).

www.olgadekort.com

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