 Ringve, Norway's National museum of music and musical instruments. | |
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| Established | 1952 |
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| Location | Lade, Trondheim, Norway |
| Coordinates | 63°26′51″N10°27′19″E / 63.447363°N 10.455208°E /63.447363; 10.455208 |
| Type | Music museum, music history and instruments. |
| Director | Ivar Roger Hansen |
| Website | [1] |
Ringve Museum isNorway's nationalmuseum formusic andmusical instruments, with collections from all over the world.[1][2]
Ringve Museum is located in the historic Ringve Farm inTrondheim. Ringve Farm was the childhood home of the Danish-Norwegian nobleman,Peter Tordenskjold. It is situated in a park on theLade peninsula just outsideTrondheim with a view over theTrondheimsfjord, the park formingbotanical gardens run by NTNU (theNorwegian University of Science and Technology). The first house on the site was built in 1521, but the current group of buildings dates from the 1740s onwards.
When the estate was auctioned in 1878, it was purchased by the Bachke family and one of the sons, Christian Anker Bachke (1873–1946) acquired the estate in 1919. In late 1919, he married Russian émigréVictoria Rostin Bachke, an artist who fled from theRussian Revolution. The couple had no children but put their considerable energies into their love of music and assembling a collection of historical musical instruments, which now numbers around 1,500 instruments, alongside other artifacts associated with music – pictures, recordings.[3]
The museum is based on the private collection of founder Victoria Bachke and was opened to the public in 1952. Jon Voigt (1928–1997) succeeded Victoria Bachke as director in 1963 and continued until 1997. Over the years many famous musicians visited Ringve, includingArtur Schnabel, Lilly Krauss,Ignaz Friedman,Percy Grainger andKirsten Flagstad, as well as the artist,Edvard Munch.
The public exhibitions are divided in two parts: the Manor House and the Barn.
The period interiors of the Ringve Manor House provide the setting for themed rooms of working – mainlykeyboard – instruments. In this section, open by guided tour only, the guides (often graduate music students) play an appropriate piece of music (or extract) as the tour proceeds.
The first room is called the Mozart room and contains aspinet,clavichord and a domestic or house organ, from the 18th century. AMurano glasschandelier hangs from the ceiling.
The next room is called the ‘Beethoven’ and contains aharp piano of 1870 by Dietz, and a piano of type favoured by Beethoven.A room dedicated toChopin comes next, with examples of the composer's preferred pianos, as well as adeath mask and casts of his hands. There are alsowatercolours byGeorge Sand andmemorabilia about Chopin andLiszt. A card table and sofa that came from Chopin's Paris home, and which were inherited by his Norwegian pupil Thomas Tellefsen are on display.
Upstairs there is a room based around singers Elisabeth Wiborg andAdelina Patti and includes a piano which Patti insisted on being accompanied. This is followed by a display ofHardanger fiddles, a ‘Grieg’ room, a room of instruments associated with church and worship, and finally a room of curiosities, including aCecilium, a Norwegian-madebarrel-organ, musical toys and aJanko piano.
The manor was badly hit by a fire in the attic and second floor on 3 August 2015.[4]
The collections on display in the Barn are divided in two parts:
The Ringve Botanical Garden was established in 1973. The botanic garden has three main parts, the 19th-century garden, the arboretum, and the systematic section. The 32-acre (130,000 m2) botanical gardens consist of anarboretum (species from the Northern hemisphere) around a lake, a floral maze representing a systematic presentation of perennial plants, a Renaissance (herbal) Garden and, in front of the Manor House the historical ‘English’ garden of the 1800s.[5]
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