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Il fascino dell’intuizione femminile: Marie Trautmann (in Jaëll), pianista, pedagoga e ricercatrice

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Over the centuries, the differences between genders have led to strong disparities for the assertion of women’s artistic value. In the history of music, in particular, many women musicians did not get the right recognition because of a cultural context that could not enhance their work. This is the case of Marie Trautmann, better known as Marie Jaëll (1846-1925), wife of the Austrian concert pianist Alfred Jaëll (1832-1882). Trautmann is a 19th century woman-musician and an important figure in the history of music still to be discovered, not only for her activity as concert pianist, composer, pedagogue, but mainly for her empirical research work, which aimed at improving the piano technique. Marie Trautmann combines charm, intelligence and a typical feminine intuition, which brought her to a continuous research that wants to break the boundaries between the artistic and scientific experimentation. The article presents the story of this woman and artist by highlighting the revolutionary scientific approach that Trautmann applies to the study of piano technique. Ultimately, her work is be contextualized in our contemporaneity to see how the value of her work is acclaimed nowadays.