“’Awfully Ugly’: Pauline Viardot as Art and Artist”

About the lecture:
The singer-composer Pauline Viardot (1821-1910) was herself not only an extraordinary musician, but also the colleague and friend of countless others, including Rossini, Chopin, Liszt, Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, and Tchaikovsky, as well as writers like George Sand, Turgenev, Flaubert and Zola, and artists like Delacroix. Building on depictions of Viardot in paintings and photography, this talk explores how Viardot shaped her artistic life as a woman in a century of turmoil.

About the lecturer:
Natasha Loges is Professor of Musicology at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Her research interests include voice and keyboard repertoire, concert culture, gender, global classical music, and performance studies. She holds degrees from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, King’s College, London, and a PhD from the University of London. Natasha previously taught at the Royal College of Music, where she was Head of Postgraduate Programmes, before starting her tenure at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in 2022.

Natasha has published widely, on Johannes Brahms in particular, and has broadcast, led events, and accompanied singers for BBC Radio 3, The Proms, and the Oxford Lieder Festival, among many others. She is a member of the network EDIMS – Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Music Studies.

Eintritt: 10,00 EUR
HfMT-Studierende: frei

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