Join us the 23 October at Institut finlandais for an evening dedicated to musical exchanges between France and the Nordic countries in the early 20th century.
The book Des notes sur la neige. Les relations musicales entre la France et les pays du Nord (Danemark, Estonie, Finlande, Norvège, Suède), 1900-1939 has recently been published by Peter Lang. This collective work, edited by Helena Tyrväinen, opens up numerous avenues of reflection and research on a subject that has been little addressed until now. Mutual fascinations, personal relationships, and shared destinies weave the fabric of a transnational history of music beyond the eternal triptych of France / Italy / Germany.
To introduce this book, present the works studied, and discuss the current scope of this field of research, Helena Tyrväinen will be joined by musicologists Catherine Massip and Johan Larson Lindal, as well as historian Étienne Jardin.
Étienne Jardin is the Director of Research and Publications at the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Center for French Romantic Music (Venice), and Doctor in History from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris). He researches 18th- and 19th-century French musical life: concerts, conservatories, and lyric theater. He has edited several collective works published by Actes Sud, Brepols, and Peter Lang. His first solo work, Exposer la musique. Le festival du Trocadéro (Paris, 1878), was published by Horizons d’attente in 2022.
Johan Larson Lindal is a historian of modern music, based at Linköping University in Sweden. He specializes in musical organizations, professional musicians, and works from the interwar period, particularly in French- and German-speaking spaces. He is also interested in music as a form of knowledge as well as in transnational exchanges. His dissertation, published in 2024, studies the history of Ernest Krenek’s Quartet No. 3 between 1923 and 1940. He is the author of articles about the recording of modern music and on musical organizations such as CISAC and ISCM. He is currently studying Jewish female musicians in Riga and German-speaking countries.
Catherine Massip, musicologist, honorary general curator of libraries, and director of emeritus studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, has published articles, books, and exhibition catalogs on 17th to 20th century French music. Her work also focuses on sources and musical collections. She is involved in the publications of the complete works of Jean-Baptiste Lully and of Camille Saint-Saëns.
Helena Tyrväinen is musicologist and researcher at the University of Helsinki, where she completed her doctoral thesis on the French influence in the music of Finnish composer Uuno Klami. She has also conducted research at Columbia University and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. Her research focuses on French-Nordic musical relations during the French Third Republic.
Photos: Helena Tyrväinen ©Sanna Jääskeläinen, ©Johan Larson Lindal, Catherine Massip ©Helena Tyrväinen, Etienne Jardin ©Matteo De Fina.
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