> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://andersmuskens.up.railway.app/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Tübinger Hammerklavier Tage 2: 19–20 June 2026 - URL: https://andersmuskens.up.railway.app/news/tbinger-hammerklavier-tage-2-historical-keyboard-instruments-in-tbingen/ - Published: 2026-06-11T19:38:54.000Z - Updated: 2026-06-11T19:38:54.000Z - Author: Anders Muskens - Tags: #Import 2026-11-10 11:47 ![](https://andersmuskens.up.railway.app/content/images/am/177540122693-img-1181.jpg) In June 2026, the Musicology Institute of the University of Tübingen will host a special exhibition and symposium devoted to the history of keyboard instruments. The focus will be on the early piano and its many historical forms. Curated by Anders Muskens and students of the institute, the exhibition brings together instruments from his own collection and from the Tübingen Musicology Institute. The exhibition presents the piano as a changing family of instruments. Its history was shaped by taste, technology, markets, social ideals, and musical life. It traces a path from earlier keyboard instruments, such as the harpsichord and clavichord, to the many kinds of pianos used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These include square pianos, grand pianos, and other experimental designs. The exhibition opens onto a wide landscape of pianistic cultures. It touches on domestic music-making, the salon, the rise of bourgeois musical life, and the role of women as performers, composers, teachers, and hosts. It also considers the competition between builders, the emergence of national schools of piano construction, and the material histories of empire, trade, labour, and technological innovation that made these instruments possible. A central theme of the exhibition is that much of the most important piano music was written before the modern piano existed. Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, and many others composed for instruments very different from the modern concert grand. Seeing and hearing these earlier instruments helps us approach the sound worlds, social spaces, and expressive ideals for which this music was first imagined. The exhibition is accompanied by the **Tübinger Hammerklavier Tage**, a symposium organized by Anders Muskens. The symposium brings together internationally recognized fortepiano specialists, performers, scholars, and students. Across two days, the programme includes concerts, lecture-recitals, student and alumni performances from HMDK Stuttgart, and a round table discussion on the future of the fortepiano. The symposium brings together a number of special guests, including **Andrew Willis**, Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; **Stefania Neonato**, Professor of Fortepiano at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart; **Hong Yu Wong** from the University of Tübingen; and **Krisztina Orbán** from the University of Tübingen. The programme also features performances by students and alumni from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, including **Julio Pasquali**, **Pedro Sperandio**, **Luise Kallmeyer**, **Angie Agudelo**, and **Violeta Mur**. The symposium explores historical keyboard instruments as musical, cultural, and scholarly objects. How do different instruments shape interpretation? What happens when Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Clementi, or C. P. E. Bach are played on instruments closer to those of their own time? How do touch, resonance, register, pedal effects, and instrumental colour alter our understanding of style, expression, and musical rhetoric? By placing historical instruments at the centre of performance and discussion, the symposium creates a meeting point between musicology, organology, historical performance, and practical musicianship. It offers visitors a rare opportunity to hear these instruments and to reflect on the musical cultures that produced them. ## Tübinger Hammerklavier Tage ## Full Schedule ## Friday, 19 June 2026 **Location:** Musicology Institute, Schulberg 2, Pfleghof, 72070 Tübingen, Germany ### 18:00–18:30 **Opening Addresses** Dr. Gundula Schäfer-Vogel, Cultural Mayor of Tübingen Prof. Dr. Morent, Head of the Musicology Institute Anders Muskens ### 18:30–19:00 **Short Opening Recital** Anders Muskens, harpsichord and fortepiano **Location:** Main Stage ### 19:00–20:00 **Lecture: Atmospheres and the Aesthetics of Musical Style** Hong Yu Wong, Tübingen Krisztina Orbán, Tübingen Anders Muskens, Tübingen ### 20:00–22:00 **Recital from HMDK Stuttgart Students and Alumni** Pedro Sperandio, fortepiano Luise Kallmeyer, violin Angie Agudelo, violin and viola Violeta Mur, cello **Location:** Main Stage **Programme** Wolfgang Amadé Mozart **Sonata for Piano and Violin in G major, K. 379** (1781) Adagio – Allegro – Theme and Variations: Andantino cantabile – Adagio – Allegretto Ludwig van Beethoven **Sonata for Piano and Cello in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2** (1796) Adagio sostenuto ed espressivo – Allegro molto più tosto presto – Rondo: Allegro **Intermission** Wolfgang Amadé Mozart **Sonata for Piano and Violin in B-flat major, K. 454** (1784) Largo – Allegro – Andante – Allegretto Wolfgang Amadé Mozart **Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478** (1785) Allegro – Andante – Rondo: Allegro moderato ## Saturday, 20 June 2026 **Location:** Musicology Institute, Schulberg 2, Pfleghof, 72070 Tübingen, Germany ### 10:00–11:00 **Opening Remarks and Lecture-Recital: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Keyboard Instruments and the Affectivity of the Sturm und Drang Cultural Phenomenon** Anders Muskens, Tübingen **Location:** Chapel ### 11:00–12:00 **Lecture-Recital: Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata** Julio Pasquali, Stuttgart **Location:** Main Stage ### 12:00–13:30 **Lunch Break** ### 13:30–15:00 **Recital: Haydn, Mozart, and Clementi** Andrew Willis, Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Greensboro **Location:** Main Stage **Programme** Joseph Haydn **Sonata in G major, Hob. XVI:6** (before 1766) Allegro – Minuet and Trio – Adagio – Finale: Allegro molto Muzio Clementi **Prelude in the Style of Mozart**, from *Musical Characteristics*, Op. 19 (1787) Wolfgang Amadé Mozart **Sonata in F major, K. 533** (1786–88) Allegro – Andante – Rondo: Allegretto **Intermission** Muzio Clementi **Prelude in the Style of Haydn**, from *Musical Characteristics*, Op. 19 (1787) Joseph Haydn **Fantasia in C major, Hob. XVII:4** (1789) Ludwig van Beethoven **Sonata in F minor, Op. 2 No. 1** (1793–95) Allegro – Adagio – Menuetto: Allegretto – Prestissimo ### 15:00–16:00 **Lecture-Recital** Stefania Neonato, Professor of Fortepiano at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart **Location:** Main Stage ### 16:00–17:00 **Round Table Discussion: The Future of Fortepiano** Anders Muskens, Tübingen Stefania Neonato, Professor of Fortepiano at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart Andrew Willis, Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Greensboro **Location:** Main Stage ## Guided Tours of the Exhibition Guided tours of the exhibition will be given by Anders Muskens at the following times: **Wednesday, 17 June 2026** 17:30 **Sunday, 21 June 2026** 12:00 13:30 15:00