Tomi Matti Mäkelä (born 4 January 1964 in

Lahti Lahti (; sv, Lahtis) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is the capital of the region of Päijänne Tavastia (Päijät-Häme) and its growing region is one of the main economic hubs of Finland. Lahti is situated on a bay at the southern e ...

) is a Finnish musicologist and pianist, professor at the

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university i ...

in Germany. He studied music and musicology in Lahti, Vienna, Berlin (West) and Helsinki. As a pianist he studied with Rauno Jussila and Noel Flores. He got his doctoral degree 1988 in Berlin under the guidance of

Carl Dahlhaus Carl Dahlhaus (10 June 1928 – 13 March 1989) was a German musicologist who was among the leading postwar musicologists of the mid to late 20th-century. A prolific scholar, he had broad interests though his research focused on 19th- and 20th ...

. He has published widely on the music of the nineteenth and twentieth century. His German book on Sibelius ''Poesie in der Luft'' (Breitkopf & Härtel 2007) got the award Geisteswissenschaft international 2008 and was published in English translation by Steven Lindberg as ''Jean Sibelius'' (2011).

Works

* with Christoph Kammertöns & Lena Esther Ptasczynski (eds.): ''

Friedrich Wieck Johann Gottlob Friedrich Wieck (18 August 1785 – 6 October 1873) was a noted German piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hamme ...

– Gesammelte Schriften über Musik und Musiker ..mit einer Einführung y Tomi Mäkelä' (Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Musik 10), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main etc. 2019; ; 390 pages * ''Saariaho, Sibelius und andere. Neue Helden des neuen Nordens. 100 Jahre Musik und Bildung in Finnland'', Georg Olms, Hildesheim etc. 2014; * ''Friedrich Pacius. Ein deutscher Komponist in Finnland. Mit einer Edition der Tagebücher, Briefe und Arbeitsmaterialien von Silke Bruns'', Georg Olms, Hildesheim etc. 2014; *''Jean Sibelius und seine Zeit'', Laaber, Laaber 2013; *''Jean Sibelius'', Boydell, Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, NY 2011; ; 536 pages *''Fredrik Pacius, kompositör i Finland'', Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland, Helsinki 2009; ; 268 pages *''Sibelius, me ja muut'', Teos, Helsinki 2007; *''Jean Sibelius. "Poesie in der Luft“. Studien zu Leben und Werk'', Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden-Leipzig-Paris 2007; *''Klang und Linie von Pierrot lunaire bis Ionisation. Studien zur Wechselwirkung von Spezialensemble, Formbildung und Klangfarbenpolyphonie'' (Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Musik 3), Peter Lang, Frankfurt/ M 2004 *Tomi Mäkelä, Tobias Robert Klein (Eds.), ''Mehrsprachigkeit und regionale Bindung in Musik und Literatur'' (Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Musik 1), Peter Lang, Frankfurt/ M 2004 *''Aarre Merikantos Konzert ("Schott-Konzert“)'' (Nordische Meisterwerke 2, Eds. Heinrich W. Schwab/ Harald Herrestahl), Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshafen 1996 *''Virtuosität und Werkcharakter. Eine analytische und theoretische Untersuchung zur Virtuosität in den Klavierkonzerten der Hochromantik''. (Berliner musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten 37, Eds. Carl Dahlhaus/

Rudolf Stephan Rudolf Stephan (3 April 1925 – 29 September 2019) was a German musicologist. Life Stephan was born in Bochum. After studying violin at the conservatory, he entered the Institute of Heidelberg, where he studied musicology at the University unde ...

), Katzbichler, München/ 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

References

External links

*http://www.musikwiss.uni-halle.de/kontaktinformationen/mitarbeiterinnen/147539_1984400/ *http://www.boersenverein.de/de/158446/Pressemitteilungen/211720/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Makela, Tomi Living people 1964 births Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Finnish musicologists Finnish pianists 20th-century Finnish male musicians 21st-century Finnish male musicians 21st-century pianists Sibelius scholars