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# Lecture Recital: Travel Souvenirs for the Keyboard: Vogler’s Transcultural Soundscapes
- URL: https://andersmuskens.up.railway.app/concerts/lecture-recital-travel-souvenirs-for-the-keyboard-voglers-transcultural-soundscapes/
- Published: 2025-07-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Saturday, 26 July 2025 · 14:00 · Pfleghofsaal, Tübingen
- Author: Anders Muskens
- Tags: #event, #Import 2026-11-10 11:47

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**Travel Souvenirs for the Keyboard: Vogler’s Transcultural Soundscapes**

**(English)**

This lecture-recital explores the boundary-blurring keyboard works of Georg Joseph Vogler (1749–1814), highlighting how his *Pièces de clavecin* (1798) and related collections reflect a transnational and transcultural musical vision. Vogler’s “travel souvenirs” incorporate melodies he collected in his travels from Africa, China, and across Europe, drawing on his *Polymelos*project—an early attempt to engage with non-European musical traditions. While his work reveals a remarkable openness and curiosity, it is equally shaped by the exoticism and distortions of the colonial-era European gaze. Vogler’s adaptations often reflect a stylized or imagined version of the ‘Other,’ underscoring the asymmetries of power embedded in eighteenth-century cultural exchange. This paper coincides with Anders Muskens’ artistic exploration and first-ever recording of these works. Through performance and critical analysis, it reconsiders Vogler’s place within Enlightenment-era musical cosmopolitanism—acknowledging the problematic frameworks he operated within, while celebrating his rare and forward-looking effort to cross musical borders.

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