Björn Schmelzer
Category: | dirigent |
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Antwerpen, 1975 | |
Genre(s): | oude muziek |
Instrument(s): | zang |
Actual/previous member of: | Graindelavoix |
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
Muntagna Nera (2012) early music Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer |
Cesena. Songs for popes, princes and mercenaries (c.1400) (2011) early music Graindelavoix, anoniem 14de eeuw, Björn Schmelzer, Solage, Philipoctus de Caserta, Matheus De Sancto Johanne, Johannes Galiot, Johannes Ciconia (...) |
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Cecus colours, blindness and memorial (2010) early music Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer |
La Magdalene (2009) early music Graindelavoix, anoniem, Nicolas Champion, Claudin De Sermisy, Pierre Blondeau, Alexander Agricola, Björn Schmelzer |
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Poissance d'amours (2008) early music Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer |
Joye (2007) early music Silvie Moors, Graindelavoix, Johannes Ockeghem, Gilles Binchois, Björn Schmelzer |
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Residentieconcerten Den Haag 2005-2006 (2006) early music, 20th century, World / Ethnic, Jazz Frederik Croene, Sexteto Tanguedia, Zefiro Torna, Jef Neve Trio, Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer |
Missa Caput by Johannes Ockeghem (2006) early music Graindelavoix, Johannes Ockeghem, 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 |
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 (...) |
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) |