La música en la Bauhaus (1919-1933): Gertrud Grunow como profesora de armonía. La fusión del arte, el color y sonido

Abstract

In few occasions there has given in a school of art a few so original and complete theories like that the musical Gertrud Grunow (1870-1944) gave in his subject of 'Theory of the Harmony' for the famous german Bauhaus, from 1919 to 1923. He had studied with teachers as Hans Guido von Bülow (1830-1894), Scharwenka (1850-1924) or Giovanni Battista Lamperti (1839-1910) and she came to the school being an authoress of a recognized intellectual prestige. The aim of her subject in the Bauhaus was the search of a balance and the analysis on the part of the students of her own artistic skills across the music. Being based on phenomena as the synaesthesia, she was thinking that to every colour a musical note was corresponding to her not only but also it was in relation with a feeling, movement, material and condition of the soul humanizes.