25th International Symposium “Beethoven – father of great symphonism”


Music Theory and Interpretation Department of Academy of Music in Kraków invites to participate in 25th International Symposium “Beethoven – father of great symphonism”, which is a part of the 26th Easter Festival of Ludwig van Beethoven, and will take place in Warsaw on 4th-5th April, 2022.

Location: Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 3 Plac Małachowskiego


PROGRAMME
Monday, April 4, 2022

10.00 Welcome address
(E. Penderecka, Head of Music Theory and Interpretation Department of The Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków, the director of “Zachęta”)

10.30 – 12.00

Christine Siegert (BEETHOVEN-HAUS BONN)
A great symphony for reduced forces: Beethoven’s „Eroica” arranged for quartet

Susanne Cox (BEETHOVEN-HAUS BONN)
Beethoven’s early sketches for the Ninth Symphony

Michael Ladenburger (BEETHOVEN-HAUS BONN)
Beethoven’ so-called 10th Symphony and its so-called first performance in Bonn in October 2021 – is there anything from Beethoven himself? Artificial intelligence versus human ingenuity

12.00 – 12.30 Break

12.30 – 14.30

Renata Skupin (THE STANISŁAW MONIUSZKO ACADEMY OF MUSIC IN GDAŃSK)
Turcisisms in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony: troubling exoticness and unconsummated symbols

Helmut Loos (UNIVERSITÄT LEIPZIG)
The somewhat different Beethoven image of Ludwig Bischoff and his Rheinische and Niederrheinische Musik-Zeitung

Susana Zapke (MUSIK UND KUNST PRIVATUNIVERSITÄT DER STADT WIEN)
Beethoven in visual culture: the sinfonie as imaginarium

Ewa Schreiber (ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY IN POZNAŃ)
Childish speech of the orchestra. On Speakings (2007-2008) by Jonathan Harvey

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

10.00 – 12.00

Daniel Golianek (ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY IN POZNAŃ)
Mehr Ausdruck der Empfindung als Malerei? The Pastoral Symphonies of Beethoven,
Berlioz, and Mahler

Małgorzata Grajter (THE GRAŻYNA AND KIEJSTUT BACEWICZOWIE ACADEMY OF MUSIC IN ŁÓDŹ)
Tone painting in different colours: representations of nature in piano and chamber
arrangements of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony.

Michael Heinemann (HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK CARL MARIA VON WEBER DRESDEN)
Nature sounds. Beethoven’s Pastorale and New Music

Marta Szoka (THE GRAŻYNA AND KIEJSTUT BACEWICZOWIE ACADEMY OF MUSIC IN ŁÓDŹ)
“Symphonic” organ music – a metaphor or a separate style?

12.00 – 12.30  P r z e r w a

12.30 – 15. 00

Teresa Malecka (THE KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI ACADEMY OF MUSIC IN KRAKÓW)
“Traditions may come and go. Beethoven will remain.” Górecki’s journey to Symphony
No. 4 “Tansman Episodes”

Agnieszka Draus (THE KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI ACADEMY OF MUSIC IN KRAKÓW)
Symphonic Music I and II, Plenitudo temporis and Ich und Du – the periphery of symphonism in Józef Rychlik’s oeuvre

Katarzyna Szymańska-Stułka (CHOPIN UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC)
Symphonic portrait of a ‘disappeared’ – Ignacy Zalewski. Symphony no 2 dedicated to the Memory of Dominik Połoński

FINAL DISCUSSION