MORNING SESSION, SATURDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2019

9:00 Greetings and Introduction

Pál Richter (director of the Institute for Musicology)

and László Vikárius (head of the Budapest Bartók Archives)

9:15 Keynote Speech

Malcolm Gillies (Australian National University/King’s College London): Bartók and Virtuosity: The Three Studies Op. 18

9:45 Paper Session (I), chair: Malcolm Gillies

Llorenç Prats Boscà (Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest/Music University of Balearic Islands, Mallorca): Traces of Bartók’s Piano Style in 1926: An Analysis of His Concert Arrangements (Transcriptions) of Italian Baroque Keyboard Music

Zsuzsanna Könyves-Tóth (Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest): Noises, Frogs, and a Shepherd: Heritage and Progressivity in Bartók’s Night Music for Piano

Yusuke Nakahara (Budapest Bartók Archives): “Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm”: Pedagogical and Social (Re-)Considerations

10:45 Discussion

10:55 Coffee break

11:10 Continuation of Paper Session (I)

Viola Biró (Budapest Bartók Archives): “In Walachian Style”: The Formation of a Musical Character

Martin Elek (Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest/University of Cambridge): Parlando-Rubato in Bartók’s Piano Playing

Javier López Jorge (Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest): Bartók’s Performing Editions of Mozart Piano Sonatas: A Graphic Representation of the So-Called Vienna-Budapest Tradition and Bartók’s Personal Performing Practice

12:10 Discussion

12:20 Lunch break

AFTERNOON SESSION, SATURDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2019

14:00 Keynote Speech

Richard Taruskin (University of California, Berkeley): Stravinsky, Ditta, and the First Piano Concerto

14:30 Paper Session (II), chair: Richard Taruskin

Sarah Lucas (Texas A&M University, Kingsville): Early Editions of Bartók’s First Piano Concerto: An Examination of the Publication and Distribution Process

Virág Büky (Budapest Bartók Archives): Mozart, Ditta, and the Third Piano Concerto: Some Questions about the Mozartian Character of Bartók’s Last Piano Concerto

15:10 Discussion

15:20 Coffee break

15:35 Continuation of Paper Session (II)

Kristína Gotthardtová (Music Department, Slovak Academy of Sciences): Bartók and His Slovakian Contemporaries

István Csaba Németh (Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest): “The entire sounding universe in all its diversity”: Péter Vermesy’s Works for Piano and Orchestra, and Their Bartókian Models

16:15 Discussion

16:25 Coffee break

16:40 Béla Bartók, Works for Piano 1914–1920, ed. László Somfai, Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition Vol. 38

László Somfai (Budapest Bartók Archives): Introduction

Imre Rohmann (Mozarteum, Salzburg):

Works for Piano 1914–1920: Bartók’s Harvard Lectures as Key to the Compositions