The RCH Institute for Musicology commemorates the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth anniversary with an international conference with invited scholars. The focus is primarily, but not exclusively, on the Beethoven reception in Central and East-Central Europe both from a historical perspective and terms of reception theory. The papers explore the history of the Beethoven cult’s formulation on the level of everyday musical practice, and examine the connections between certain musical centers, prominent institutions and individuals in constructing and cultivating Beethoven’s image both as a person and a composer, and in contextualizing his works.

Program

11:00–11:10
Greetings and Introduction
Pál Richter, director of the Institute for Musicology, RCH


19th Century

Chair: Tatjana Marković (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)

11:10–11:40
Vjera Katalinić (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb)
Beethoven’s Output in the 19th-century Zagreb: between Opportunitiesand Intentions

11:40–12:10
Jana Laslavíková (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
Heiligkeit oder Pflicht. Die Rezeption von Beethovens Fidelio im Kontext der kulturpolitischen Situation in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts in Pressburg

12:10–12:40
Emese Sófalvi (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
“Transposition des wunderschönen Werkes des grossen Meisters.”Georg Ruzitska’s Beethoven-reception


COFFEE BREAK


Chair: Pál Richter (Institute for Musicology, RCH, Budapest)

13:00–13:30 Katalin Kim (Institute for Musicology, RCH, Budapest)
Fidelio – Nineteenth-Century Reception in Hungary

13:30–14:00
Kata Riskó (Institute for Musicology, RCH, Budapest)
“100 Gypsy Musicians Playing Beethoven’s Funeral March”


LUNCH BREAK


20th Century


Chair: Vjera Katalinić (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb)

15:00–15:30
Fritz Trümpi (Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Vienna)
The founding of the first Viennese Beethoven memorial in 1941: Cultural policies in the mirror of the Shoah

15:30–16:00
Veronika Kusz (Institute for Musicology, RCH, Budapest)
“He is in the eyes of most of us: the greatest.” Beethoven and the Composer Dohnányi

16:00–16:30
László Vikárius (Institute for Musicology, RCH, Bartók Archives, Budapest)
Bartók’s Neo-Classical Re-evaluation of Beethoven?


Mini Recital
16:30
József Balog on Béla Bartók’s piano
Budapest, Institute for Musicology, RCH, Bartók Hall
Ludwig van Beethoven: “The Tempest” Piano Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2


Chair: László Vikárius (Institute for Musicology, RCH, Bartók Archives, Budapest)

17:00–17:30
Alexandros Charkiolakis (The Friends of Music Society, Athens)
Heroism, Resistance and Sentiment: Two Events Full of Beethovenian Drama

17:30–18:00
Julijana Papazova (State Music and Ballet Education Centre: “Ilija Nikolovski – Luj”, Skopje)
The Memory About Skopje and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

18:00–18:30
Péter Bozó (Institute for Musicology, RCH, Budapest)
Dénes Bartha, Ernst von Dohnányi, and Beethoven’s Three Style Periods


18:30
Pál Richter’s closing remarks and invitation to the exhibition “music has arrived at the border of expression”: Beethoven in Hungary at the Museum of Music History RCH Institute for Musicology (official opening on December 15, 2020)
ORGANIZERS
Institute for Musicology, RCH (H-1017 Budapest, Táncsics M. u. 7)
Website: http://zti.hu/index.php/hu/
Pál Richter, Director of the Institute for Musicology, RCH
Katalin Kim, Deputy director of the Institute for Musicology, RCH, Head of Department for Hungarian Music History
Conference secretary: Lili Békéssy, Institute for Musicology, RCH, young researcher

Editor-In-Chief: Pál Richter, Director of the Institute for Musicology, RCH
Managing Editor: Lili Békéssy, Institute for Musicology, RCH, young researcher
Layout: Zsolt Vizinger, Institute for Musicology, RCH, assistant research fellow
Photos: http://www.zti.hu
Published online by the Institute for Musicology, RCH, Budapest.

The organizers retain the right to modify programmes.