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