Tomi Mäkelä

Tomi Mäkelä ( born 1964 in Lahti, Finland) is a Finnish musicologist. He is a professor at the Martin -Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg.

Life

He studied music in Lahti and Vienna, and musicology in Helsinki, Vienna and Berlin (West). He learned piano at Rauno Jussila at Päijät- Hämeen Konservatorio and Noel Flores ( Artist Diploma at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts ). He received his doctorate in 1988 at the Technical University of Berlin under the supervision of Carl Dahlhaus and habilitated in 1990 at the University of Helsinki at the Institute for Musicology of the Musiksemiotikers Eero Tarasti with a thesis on concert of chamber music in the 1920s. He has published on a variety of topics from the 19th and 20th century as well as music theory and pedagogy. His book about Jean Sibelius poetry in the air ( Breitkopf & Härtel 2007) received the 2008 award " spiritual science international" and was published in English translation as Steven Lindberg Jean Sibelius ( 2011).

Works (selection of books )

• Jean Sibelius and his time, Laaber Laaber 2013; ISBN 978-3-89007-767-3; 331 pages
• Jean Sibelius, Boydell, Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, NY 2011; ISBN 978-1-84383-688-9; 536 pages
• Fredrik Pacius kompositör i Finland, Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland, Helsinki 2009; ISBN 978-951-583-192-7; 268 pages
• Sibelius, me yes muut, Teos, Helsinki 2007; ISBN 978-951-851-097-3
• Jean Sibelius. "Poetry in the air" studies the life and work, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden, Leipzig and Paris 2007; . ISBN 978-3-7651-0363-6; 510 pages
• Sound and line of Pierrot Lunaire to ionization. Studies of the interaction of a special ensemble, shaping and tone polyphony ( Interdisciplinary Studies in Music 3 ), Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M 2004; ISBN 978-3-631-52891-4; 313 pages
• Tomi Mäkelä, Tobias Robert Klein ( Eds.), Multilingualism and regional bond in music and literature ( Interdisciplinary Studies in Music 1 ), Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M 2004; ISBN 978-3-631-52331-5
• Aarre Merikantos concert ( " Schott Concerto " ) (Nordic Masterpieces 2, eds Heinrich W. Schwab / Harald Herre steel ), Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1996
• Virtuosity and work character. An analytical and theoretical study of the virtuosity in the piano concertos of high romance. ( Berlin musicological work 37, ed Carl Dahlhaus / Rudolf Stephan), Katzbichler, Munich / Salzburg 1989
• Training and the Knowledge -Based Society. An Evaluation of Doctoral Education in Finland / David D. Dill, Sanjit K. Mitra, Hans Siggaard Jensen, Erno Lehtinen, Tomi Mäkelä, Anna Parpala, Hannele Pohjola, Mary A. Ritter & Seppo Saari, PhD ( Publications of the Finnish Higher Education evaluation Council 2006, 1, FHEEC ), Tampere 2006