Organized by the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków

Department of Music Theory and Interpretation of the Musical Work

Scientific Director: prof. dr hab. Teresa Malecka

Scientific Secretary: Magdalena Chrenkoff

10.30 – 11.50 Moderation: prof. AMKP, dr hab. Agnieszka Draus

Robert Hatten (The University of Texas in Austin)

Beethoven’s Interpretation of Schiller’s Verses for the Ninth Symphony Finale: The Exemplification, Embodiment, and Enactment of a Poetic Conceit.

Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz (Akademia Muzyczna im. Krzysztofa Pendereckiego w Krakowie)

The Imperative of the Word. On the Idea of Bildung in Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Helmut Loos (Universität Leipzig)

The Overwhelming of Music by Literature and Philosophy. Beethoven and the Consequences.

11.50 – 12.20          Break

12.20 – 13.40 Moderation: prof. dr. hab. Helmut Loos

Michael Spitzer (University of Liverpool)

Beethoven and Three Poets: Hölderlin, Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot.

Nils Holger Petersen (University of Copenhagen)

Beethoven and Scandinavian Poets.

Katarzyna Szymańska-Stułka (Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Warsaw)

Beethoven and Shakespeare – the Topos of Tempest.

13.40–14.00              Break

14.00–15.00 Moderation: prof. AMKP, dr hab. Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz

Małgorzata Grajter (The Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz University of Music in Łódź)

Beethoven, Schubert and Others: Erlkönig by Johann Wolfgang Goethe in the Musical Settings by Classical and Early Romantic Composers.

Roman Ivanovitch (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Mozart’s Ave verum corpus: The Temporality and Technique of Crisis Ave verum corpus.

Organized by the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków

Department of Music Theory and Interpretation of the Musical Work

Scientific Director: prof. dr hab. Teresa Malecka

Scientific Secretary: Magdalena Chrenkoff

10.00 – 11.00 Moderation: prof. Michael Spitzer

Michael Heinemann (Hochschule Karl Maria von Weber Dresden)

Lost Illusions. Beethoven in the Novels of Thomas Mann.

Joan Grimalt (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya)

The Second Finale in Fidelio: Text and Music. A Topical-Dramaturgical Analysis.

11.00 – 11.20            Break

11.20 – 12.40 Moderation: prof. Robert Hatten

Iwona Sowińska-Fruhtrunk (Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków)

Schoenberg’s Book of the Hanging Gardens as the Last Great Song Cycle for Stefan Georgie’s Poetry.

Marcin Trzęsiok (Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice)

Samuel Barber’s Knoxville, Summer of 1915. On the Sublime in the Democratic Era.

Susana Zapke (Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien)

Music is the greatest non-sense of all. Elfriede Jelinek’s Lieder, 1965-1966.

12.40 – 13.00            Break

 13.00 – 14.30 Moderation: prof. dr hab. Teresa Malecka

Ilona Iwańska (Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków)

“To Sing in Truth.” R.M. Rilke’s Poetry in Polish Songs after World War II.

Agnieszka Draus (Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków)

‘Witnesses to matters of the spirit’. Rilke, Stachowski, Penderecki.

Discussion