Symposium Kylwiria and Other Explorations
An International Musicological Conference on György Ligeti’s Centenary
Vienna & Budapest, 10–13 May 2023
Organized by the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies of the University of Music and Performing Arts (Vienna) and the Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities (Budapest) in collaboration with the Hungarian Musicological Society and the Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel)
Venue in Vienna: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna – mdw, Joseph-Haydn-Saal, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, A-1030 Wien
Venue in Budapest: RCH Institute for Musicology, Bartók Hall, Táncsics Mihály utca 7, H-1014 Budapest
Program:
Wednesday, 10 May 2023 | Vienna
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17:00 |
Welcome Ulrike Sych | Rector of mdw |
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17:30 |
Keynote: “But maybe my insecure and wandering life served my development as a composer better”: Ligeti’s Autobiographies |
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18:30 |
Break |
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19:00 |
Concert |
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20:00 |
Reception |
Thursday, 11 May 2023 | Vienna
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09:00 |
Reports and Conjectures about Kylwiria |
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09:45 |
“Breughelland”: Subverting the Antinomy of Utopia and Dystopia |
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10:30 |
Coffee break |
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11:00 |
Utopias and Their Discontents: Ligeti’s Reception History as Modernist Meta-Narrative |
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11:45 |
Freedom and Originality: Are My Father’s Principal Values Still Viable for a Composer Today? |
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12:45 |
Lunch break |
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14:30 |
Music, Magic, and Migration: György Ligeti’s Síppal, dobbal as Sonic Healing Joseph Cadagin | New Europe College Bucharest |
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15:00 |
Title t.b.d. |
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15:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:00 |
Ligeti’s Lux Aeterna from a Theoretical and Practical Perspective Workshop with Company of Music, Lukas Haselböck & Johannes Hiemetsberger (both University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) |
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18:00 |
Concert |
Friday, 12 May 2023 | Budapest
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14:00 |
Welcome Pál Richter | Director of Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities |
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14:15 |
The Widow in the Old House or The Elevator is Out of Order |
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15:00 |
Deconstructed Time, Organised Chaos. Ligeti’s Musical Gamble with Clocks and Clouds |
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15:30 |
Clocks and Clouds – Technic or Phantasm, Tradition or Futuristic Utopia? |
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16:00 |
Exhibition | Guided tour: Ligeti-Labyrinth. An Exhibition on György Ligeti’s Centenary |
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18:00 |
Concert: Piano recital with László Borbély Musica Ricercata: Nos. 5., 9., 7., 8., 10., 11; Études pour piano, vol. 1: 1–6 |
Saturday, 13 May 2023 | Budapest
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09:30 |
Ligeti and Artistic Research |
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10:15 |
The Hybrid Musical Landscape of Ligeti’s Late Concertos |
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11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:30 |
Ligeti’s Mahler Lóránt Péteri | Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest |
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12:00 |
Internal Soundscapes. Transformations of Environmental Sounds in Ligeti’s Musical Analyses |
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12:30 |
“Some Sort of Machine Without a Body”: György Ligeti and Antoinette Vischer Explore the Modern Harpsichord Elisabeth Reisinger | University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna |
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13:00 |
Lunch break |
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14:30 |
Weöres/Ligeti – a Creative Affinity? Márton Kerékfy | Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest |
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15:15 |
Exploring Polyrhythms: Reflections on György Ligeti's Études pour piano |
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16:00 |
Coffee break |
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16:30 |
Ligeti’s Jottings and Musical Meaning: Two Ways In James Donaldson | Magdalen College, University of Oxford |
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17:15 |
Concluding discussion |
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t.b.c. |
Chamber Concert |
Program committee: Anna Dalos, Julia Heimerdinger, Márton Kerékfy, Heidy Zimmermann
Online participation (passive) in the symposium is possible. After registration at the address musikwissenschaft[at]mdw.ac.at by May 8, 2023 at the latest, you will receive the participation link.