Com­bin­ing the Arts

Third annual Conference of the Schubert research center

Wien

12.-14.10.2023

multimedia performances in the early 19th-century Habsburg Empire
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Program

THURSDAY, 12 OCTOBER
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

09:30 Welcome
Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl

09:45 Introduction
Christopher Gibbs
More Than Just Music: The Rich Combination of the Arts in Schubert’s Vienna

MORNING SESSION: BALLROOMS, SALONS AND THEATERS
Chair: Thomas Seedorf

10:00 Erica Buurman
The Multimedia Ballroom in Schubert’s Vienna

10:45 COFFEE

11:15 Nancy November / Imogen Morris
Why Were Music Theatrical Soirées and Salons So Popular in Schubert’s Vienna?

12:00 Mary Riggs / Robert Riggs
Multimedia Performances in the Kärntnertortheater

AFTERNOON PROGRAM

15:45 Guided tour through the historical Theater in der Josefstadt
Theater in der Josefstadt, Josefstädter Straße 24

EVENING

19:00 Lebenstänze – Lebensstürme.
Eine „musikalisch-deklamatorisch-tanzalische Abendunterhaltung”
Musik von Franz Schubert

 

FRIDAY, 13 OCTOBER

MORNING SESSION: VISUALIZED BODY GESTURES AND LITERARY
SOUNDSCAPES
Chair: Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl

09:30 Bettina Brandl-Risi
Blurring the Poses of Representation – In-Betweenness in Tableau Vivant Performances

10:15 Emily Eubanks
The Soundscape of Austrian Patriotism: “Ferdinand II” in Karoline Pichler’s Salon

11:00 COFFEE

11:30 Margit Legler
The Physical Eloquence of Schubert’s Time (Performance Lecture)

AFTERNOON SESSION: LIED AND MELODRAMA
Chair: Franz Fillafer

14:00 Cheston Humphries
Genre Conventions in the Early German Lied and the Declamatory Tradition

14:45 Louis De Nil
Singing Schubert’s “Erlkönig” Dramatically in Vienna’s Vormärz Period

15:30 COFFEE

16:00 Panel: Multimediality at the Viennese Court – Ambigu (1815)

Werner Telesko
The Viennese Court as a Place of Multimedia Practices in the Early 19th Century
Alfred Noe
The Dramatic Elements in the “Ambigu” at the Viennese Court in 1815.
A Five-Flavour Pièce Montée
Livio Marcaletti
“Melodrame”, Comic Ensemble Pieces and Dances: How Music Blends with the Arts
in the 1815 “Ambigu”

19:00 Conference Dinner
Gmoakeller, Am Heumarkt 25

 

SATURDAY, 14 OCTOBER
MORNING SESSION: BALLET, OPERA AND ORCHESTRAL WORKS
Chair: Livio Marcaletti

09:30 Joan Grimalt
Beethoven’s Multimedia Prometheus Myth, 1801–2023. “Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus” op. 43, Between Rhetorical Music, Pantomime, and Stage Performance

10:15 Kirby E. Haugland
Staging an Effective Revolution: “Lodoïska” in Habsburg Europe

11:00 COFFEE

11:30 Christine Fischer
Tableau Vivant and Symphonic Music? An Attempt to Approach Figurative Associations in Schubert’s Orchestral Works

12:15 Summary, Desiderata and Farewell

 

ORGANIZER AND CONTACT:
Schubert Research Center, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Livio Marcaletti, Thomas Seedorf
schubert@oeaw.ac.at