Tomi Matti Mäkelä (born 3 January 1964 in

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) is a Finnish musicologist and pianist, professor at the

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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

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. He has published widely on the music of the nineteenth and twentieth century. His German book on Sibelius ''Poesie in der Luft'' (

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2007) got the award Geisteswissenschaft international 2008 and was published in English translation by Steven Lindberg as ''Jean Sibelius'' (2011). 2023 Tomi Mäkelä received the Fredrik-Pacius-Award of the Swedish Literature Society in Finland (

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Works

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

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– Gesammelte Schriften über Musik und Musiker ..mit einer Einführung

y Tomi Mäkelä Y, or y, is the twenty-fifth and penultimate letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. According to some authorities, it is the sixth (or sevent ...

' (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'',

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, 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/

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), Katzbichler, München/ Salzburg 1989 *''Training and the Knowledge-Based Society. An Evaluation of Doctoral Education in Finland'' /

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, Sanjit K. Mitra,

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, Erno Lehtinen, Tomi Mäkelä, Anna Parpala, Hannele Pohjola,

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& 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 Finnish pianists Sibelius scholars