Schwarzer Violinschlüssel
Schwarzer Violinschlüssel stands on Horst-Lippmann-Platz in Frankfurt am Main, at the corner of Goethestraße and Kleine Bockenheimer Straße. The sculpture rises about three metres beside the Jazzkeller Frankfurt. Hans-Peter Taro Miyabe created it in 1982 as an abstract jazz monument for the city.
A black lacquered bronze pipe, slightly over ten centimetres wide, twists asymmetrically above a dark, almost cylindrical pedestal. From one particular angle, its curves suggest a violin clef, although the lines differ from the traditional musical symbol. Other viewpoints reveal only the pipe’s winding form, set on stepped and partly sloping concrete levels.
The nearby Jazzkeller Frankfurt has hosted nationally and internationally known jazz musicians since 1952. Albert Mangelsdorff practised there, alongside Frankfurt musicians including Volker Kriegel and Heinz Sauer. Miyabe received an award for the sculpture in a Hanau competition, and the accessible setting keeps this three-metre black form close to the city’s jazz history.
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