Björn Schmelzer
| Category: | dirigent |
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| Antwerpen, 1975 | |
| Genre(s): | oude muziek |
| Instrument(s): | zang |
Biography
Björn Schmelzer is an ethnomusicologist and anthropologist who combines these studies in his research and in his work as an artist. it helps him to unravel the complex web of musical practices and create new ones.
Living in Antwerp (Belgium), he spent some time in Naples and Palermo and worked intensively on the musical traditions and performance practices in sardinia , sicily and the south-italian peninsula. He specialized in the styles and function of ornamentation in mediterranean music and in written classical music as well. Although he was inspired by some ancient and traditional music performers in belgium and in the mediterranean area, life brought him to strike intuitive into other, unknown roads. Beside different (necessary or not) activities and trades, he was also a street-performer and for some time ‘brocanteur'. With graindelavoix his approach to ancient music is that of anachronism and geographical margin with a view to reverse and reinvent images of the (auditive) past. at this moment björn schmelzer is writing a study about dynamics and intensity in late-gothic art.
Selective discography
 | Josquin the Undead: Laments, Deplorations and Dances of Death (2021) early music Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer, Josquin Desprez, Nicolas Gombert, Jean Le Brun, Jheronimus Vinders, Benedictus Appenzeller |
 | The Liberation of the Gothic (2018) early music Graindelavoix, John Browne, Björn Schmelzer, Thomas Ashewell |
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 | Portrait of the artist as a starved dog: Madrigals (2017) early music Graindelavoix, Cipriano De Rore, Björn Schmelzer |
 | Orazio Vecchi: Requiem (2017) religious Graindelavoix, Orazio Vecchi, Björn Schmelzer, George de La Hèle, Pedro Rimonte, Duarte Lobo, Paolo Bravusi |
 | Jean Hanelle. Cypriot Vespers (2016) early music Graindelavoix, Jean Hanelle, Björn Schmelzer |
 | Music for an Antwerp church (2016) early music, Baroque Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer, George de La Hèle, Alard du Gaucquier, Matthias Pottier, Pedro Ruimonte, Orazio Vecchi, Paolo Bravusi (...) |
 | de Machaut Guillaume - Messe de Nostre Dame (2016) early music Graindelavoix, Guillaume de Machaut, Björn Schmelzer |
 | Motets (2014) early music Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer |
 | Confréries (2013) early music Graindelavoix, Jaikes de Cambai, Björn Schmelzer, Robert de Reins La Chièvre, Martin le Béguin de Cambrai, Chanoine de Saint-Quentin, anoniem |
 | Ossuaires (2012) early music Graindelavoix, Pierre de Cambrai, Björn Schmelzer |
Author of
 | Time Regained: A Warburg Atlas for Early Music (2018) oude muziek Björn Schmelzer, Margarida Garcia |
 | Musica Antiqua Revisited (2010) oude muziek Björn Schmelzer, Sigiswald Kuijken |
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Selectieve discografie als medewerker
 | Poissance d'amours (2008) early music Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer |
 | Margarete. Maximilian I. (2001) early music Capilla Flamenca, Dirk Snellings, La Caccia, Michaël Ghijs, Schola Cantorum Cantate Domino, Frans Mariman, Schola Gregoriana Lovaniensis, Joris Verdin (...) |
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Related Items
| News: | CESENA Symposium rond dans, muziek en filosofie (29.11.2011) Wereldpremière 'Cesena' met Graindelavoix op het Festival te Avignon (12.07.2011) |
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| Documents: | Musica Antiqua Revisited (brochure) |
| Releases: | Cesena. Songs for popes, princes and mercenaries (c.1400) |
