The Digital Baermann

The Digital Baermann

Welcome to The Digital Baermann, a web resource exploring the life, work and artistic practice of the 19th-century clarinetist Carl Baermann (1810-1885). The site will bring together material relating to Baermann and presents it alongside embodied research into Baermann's performance style, his pedagogy and his instrument design.

The Digital Baermann is an output of the project Baermann's Body: Understanding Embodied Research in Historically Informed Performance, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council from 2023–2025. The project aim is to explore the sharing of embodied research through multi-media web publication. The Digital Baermann will be published in phases and updated as the research progresses: the first phase is the Virtual Archive, bringing together primary sources including letters and writings as well as a catalogue raisonée of Baermann's musical works and editions. The first draft of this material will be released in phases during summer and autumn 2024. The following sections, including an embodied analysis of Baermann's Vollständige Clarinett-Schule and extended thematic articles on his life and musical practice, will follow.

The sections currently available to view are:
Virtual Archive Letters, Writings, Other Documents

Coming Autumn 2024:
Virtual Archive Compositions, Editions
 

Navigating The Digital Baermann

The Digital Baermann is powered by Scalar, an open-source authoring and publishing platform designed for digital scholarship. You can navigate the site in two ways: the menu icon (top left) gives a traditional overview of the pages and sub-pages of the site. You can also explore various chronological and thematic 'paths' through the material by following the navigation buttons at the bottom of each page. To return to the top of a path or chapter, use the 'crumb trail' at the top left of the page you are on.

Commenting on The Digital Baermann

During the draft phase of publication, The Digital Baermann has been made open for public comments. This is an experiment in 'community review' and we encourage readers to contribute suggestions, corrections and additional information via this function. Comments are moderated. Minor error corrections will be implemented without publishing the comment. More substantial contributions may be published on the page or the author contacted for further discussion.
 
Virtual Archive References

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