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

Download program brochure (with abstracts and bios)

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.

Full concert programs (concerts will not be available via Zoom)

 

Program:

Wednesday, 10 May 2023 | Vienna

17:00

Welcome

Johannes Meissl | Vice Rector of the mdw
Julia Heimerdinger | Member of the program committee

17:30

Keynote: “But maybe my insecure and wandering life served my development as a composer better”: Ligeti’s Autobiographies 
Paul Griffiths

18:30

Break

19:00

Concert (all works by György Ligeti)

Kineret (1941) | Michaela Resch (soprano), Yuumi Yamaguchi (piano)
Petőfi bordala (Petőfis drinking song) (1950) | Michaela Resch, Yuumi Yamaguchi
String Quartet No. 1. Métamorphoses nocturnes (1953/54) | Rubik Quartett

Der Sommer (Friedrich Hölderlin) (1989) | Michaela Resch, Yuumi Yamaguchi
Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (1982) | Paolo Vuono (violin), Nikitaris Panagiotis (piano), Jason Pfiester (horn)
Mysteries of the Macabre (1988) | Misaki Morino (soprano), Yuto Kiguchi (piano)

20:00

Reception

Thursday, 11 May 2023 | Vienna

09:30

Reports and Conjectures about Kylwiria
Heidy Zimmermann | Paul Sacher Foundation Basel

10:15

“Breughelland”: Subverting the Antinomy of Utopia and Dystopia
Andreas Dorschel | University of Music and Performing Arts Graz

11:00

Coffee break

11:30

Utopias and Their Discontents: Ligeti’s Reception History as Modernist Meta-Narrative
Amy Bauer | University of California, Irvine

12:15

Music, Magic, and Migration: Ligeti’s Síppal, dobbal as Sonic Healing

Joseph Cadagin | New Europe College Bucharest

12:45

Lunch break

14:30

Freedom and Originality: Are My Father’s Principal Values Still Viable for a Composer Today?
Lukas Ligeti

15:30

Coffee break

16:00

Ligeti’s Lux Aeterna from a Theoretical and Practical Perspective

Workshop with the vocal ensemble Company of MusicLukas Haselböck & Johannes Hiemetsberger (both University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)

17:00

Break

18:00

Concert (all works by György Ligeti)
Continuum for Harpsichord (1968) | Piibe Talen 
Hungarian Rock. Chaconne for Harpsichord (1978) | Rui Cai
Passacaglia ungherese for Harpsichord (1978) | Arthur Jeszenszky

Monument · Selbstporträt · Bewegung. Three Pieces for two Pianos (1976) | Yuhuan Wang & Shiori Yoshino 
Sonata for Viola Solo (1991–94) | Nikita Gerkusov

Friday, 12 May 2023 | Budapest

14:00

Welcome

Pál Richter | Director of Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities

14:15

The Widow in the Old House or The Elevator is Out of Order 
Péter Laki | Bard College Berlin

15:00

Deconstructed Time, Organised Chaos. Ligeti’s Musical Gamble with Clocks and Clouds
Bianca Temes | “Gh. Dima” National Music Academy Cluj-Napoca

15:30

Clocks and Clouds – Technic or Phantasm, Tradition or Futuristic Utopia? 

Maria Kostakeva

16:00

Internal Soundscapes. Transformations of Environmental Sounds in Ligeti’s Musical Analyses 
Ewa Schreiber | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

16:30

Exhibition | Guided tour: Ligeti-Labyrinth. An Exhibition Celebrating the Centenary of György Ligeti’s Birth
Museum of Music History (Táncsics Mihály utca 7, H-1014 Budapest)

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

09:30

Ligeti and Artistic Research 
Wolfgang Marx | University College Dublin

10:15

The Hybrid Musical Landscape of Ligeti’s Late Concertos 
Benjamin R. Levy | University of California, Santa Barbara

11:00

Coffee break

11:30

Ligeti’s Mahler

Lóránt Péteri | Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest

12:00

“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

12:30

Lunch break

14:30

Weöres/Ligeti – a Creative Affinity?

Márton Kerékfy | Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest

15:15

Exploring Polyrhythms: Reflections on Ligeti's Études pour piano
Tobias Bleek | Folkwang University of the Arts Essen

16:00

Coffee break

16:30

Ligeti’s Jottings and Musical Meaning: Two Ways In

James Donaldson | Magdalen College, University of Oxford

17:15

Concluding discussion

18:00

Chamber Concert

Program committee: Anna Dalos, Julia Heimerdinger, Márton Kerékfy, Heidy Zimmermann