Folk music from the Uniarts Helsinki: If the peasant had a piano
Pilvi Järvelä’s postgraduate concert at Annala villa.
The concert is an expedition to the early 19th century when the piano and its earlier forms landed in Finland. Sheet music and contemporary writings from that time exist that prove that the piano was indeed a part of the musical life of the gentry. The most commonly used instruments by the common people were the violin and the clarinet, and music spread by hearing and memory. The folk musicians were known as “pelimanni”. How did piano music sound at that time? What would a musician have learned from other folk musicians during that period?
The concert presents old, traditional Finnish songs on a piano and violin.
Performers
- Pilvi Järvelä, piano
- Arto Järvelä, violin
Full programme and performers in Finnish.
More information: Tiina Halonen, tiina.halonen@uniarts.fi
The concert is an expedition to the early 19th century when the piano and its earlier forms landed in Finland. Sheet music and contemporary writings from that time exist that prove that the piano was indeed a part of the musical life of the gentry. The most commonly used instruments by the common people were the violin and the clarinet, and music spread by hearing and memory. The folk musicians were known as “pelimanni”. How did piano music sound at that time? What would a musician have learned from other folk musicians during that period?
The concert presents old, traditional Finnish songs on a piano and violin.
Performers
- Pilvi Järvelä, piano
- Arto Järvelä, violin
Full programme and performers in Finnish.
More information: Tiina Halonen, tiina.halonen@uniarts.fi