Conny Restle (born 18 November 1960) is a German

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

, Museum director and

lecturer Lecturer is an academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. They may also conduct re ...

at the

Berlin University of the Arts The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the second largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research uni ...

Life

Born in Munich, Restle took her

Abitur ''Abitur'' (), often shortened colloquially to ''Abi'', is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany. It is conferred on students who pass their final exams at the end of ISCED 3, usually after twelve or thirteen year ...

at the humanistic

Wilhelmsgymnasium (Munich) The Wilhelmsgymnasium is a Gymnasium (Germany), gymnasium (selective school) in Munich, Germany. Founded in 1559 to educate local boys, it is now coeducational. Wilhelmsgymnasium is one of the few remaining gymnasiums in Bavaria to be a "pure ''H ...

in 1980. From 1980 to 1985 she studied Musicology, Latin

philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

of the Middle Ages and German Philology of the same period at the

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

. After graduating with a Magister Artium, she worked at the Gesellschaft für Bayerische Musikgeschichte from 1986 to 1989. In 1989 Restle received her doctorate in musicology with a thesis on ''

Bartolomeo Cristofori Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (; May 4, 1655 – January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments famous for inventing the piano. Life The available source materials on Cristofori's life include his birth and death recor ...

'' and the beginnings of the Hammerklavier'. From 1989 to 1991 she was scientific assistant and responsible coordinator of the research project "

harpsichord A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard, keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one ...

s - hammerclaviere" of the

Austrian Science Fund The Austrian Science Fund () is the most important Austrian funding organization for basic research. The FWF supports research in science, engineering, and the humanities through a large variety of grant programmes, prizes and by funding infrastru ...

in Vienna. In 1992 Restle went to the

Berlin Musical Instrument Museum The Berlin Musical Instrument Museum () is located at the Kulturforum on Tiergartenstraße in Berlin, Germany. The museum holds over 3,500 musical instruments from the 16th century onward and is one of the largest and most representative musi ...

of the

State Institute for Music Research The State Institute for Music Research ( or ''SIMPK'') is a musicological research facility in Berlin, Germany for the study of Musical Instruments, Music History, Music Theory and Music technology. It is an agency of the Prussian Cultural Herit ...

and has held a leading position there since 1994. Since 2002 Restle has also been director of the Musical Instrument Museum and university professor. In 2012 she was appointed honorary professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. In addition to keyboard instruments, her research focuses on instruments from antiquity, the Middle Ages and the 16th to early 20th centuries. She also devoted herself to research on acoustics and

Historically informed performance Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of Western classical music, classical music which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of ...

. Restle is a member of the editorial board of ''musica instrumentalis - Journal for

organology Organology (; ) is the science of musical instruments and their classifications. It embraces study of instruments' history, instruments used in different cultures, technical aspects of how instruments produce sound, and musical instrument classi ...

''.

Publications

* ''Bartolomeo Cristofori und die Anfänge des Hammerclaviers'', Munich 1991 * ''Berliner Musikinstrumenten-Museum. Bestandskatalog'', Berlin o. J. (together with Dagmar Droysen-Reber) * ''Neuerwerbungen 1993–1994. 10 Jahre Musikinstrumenten-Museum am Kulturforum'', Berlin 1994 * ''Das Berliner Bach-Cembalo. Ein Mythos und seine Folgen'', Berlin 1995 (ed.) * ''Faszination Klavier – 300 Jahre Pianofortebau in Deutschland'', Munich 2000 (ed.) * ''

Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; ; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor best known for his Tone poems (Strauss), tone poems and List of operas by Richard Strauss, operas. Considered a leading composer of the late Roman ...

im kaiserlichen Berlin'', Berlin 2001 (ed.) * ''Faszination Klarinette'', Munich 2004 (ed. with Heike Fricke) * ''

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire ...

und das Hammerklavier'', in ''Klang und Begriff. Perspektiven musikalischer Theorie und Praxis'', hrsg. im Auftrag des Staatlichen Instituts für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, by Thomas Ertelt and Conny Restle, vol. 2, ''Beethovens Klaviervariationen op. 34'', Berlin 2007 * ''Faszination Gitarre'', Berlin 2010 (ed. with Christopher Li) * Ed. with Christian Breternitz: ''Valve. Brass. Music. 200 Jahre Ventilblasinstrumente'', Berlin 2013. * ''Good Vibrations. Eine Geschichte der elektronischen Musikinstrumente / A History of Electronic Musical Instruments'',''Good vibrations : eine Geschichte der elektronischen Musikinstrumente = a history of electronic musical instruments''
on WorldCat Berlin 2017. (ed. with Benedikt Brilmayer and Sarah-Indriyati Hardjowirogo)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Restle, Conny Musicologists from Berlin German women musicologists 20th-century German musicologists 21st-century German musicologists Directors of museums in Germany Academic staff of the Berlin University of the Arts 1960 births Living people Academics from Munich