Musical Empathy in Digital Space

What role does "empathy" play for literature, theater, music, and philosophy? Theoreticians and practitioners discuss this question in the CAS lecture series of the winter semester 2021/22. The lecture series is part of the CAS research focus "Empathy" under the auspices of the English scholar Prof. Dr. Claudia Olk (LMU). | Igor Levit is one of the world's best-known pianists and professor of piano at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. When public performances were not possible due to the Covid pandemic, Levit gave a series of 52 "house concerts" via Twitter and Instagram starting in March 2020. | David Trippett is Director of Studies in Music at Christ's College, University of Cambridge, and currently a Fellow at CAS. | Magdalena Zorn is a musicologist at LMU and researches, among other things, musicalized light spaces of the German post-war avant-garde.