Lecture recital
The Operatic Industry in East-Central Europe (1870–1920). An Essentially International Genre and Its Repertoire in the Service of Nation-building – An aria recital and lectures connected to the workshop, Budapest, HAS Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities
A concert and lecture connected to the workshop was an important event of the cooperation. It was located in the Bartók Hall of the Institute for Musicology in Budapest, which is known as an established venue for similar concerts and musical events. As a performer specialized in the music of the period, Hungarian soprano Ingrid Kertesi awarded with the Liszt Ferenc Prize and distinguished with the titles of Meritorious and Excellent Artist presented the results of the research to wider audiences. The individual arias and other musical compositions were chosen collectively by the representatives of countries participating in the project and the researchers also contributed by holding introductory lectures on the historical background of the music.
You can find the concert programme (in Hungarian) here. To watch the concert on YouTube, click here, or watch the embedded video down below.
Presentations on the research topic given during the course of the project
We consider it important to make our research result available for a broad audience. That is why we talked about the V4 collaboration and its topic, the musical theatre of the multilingual East-Central Europe, not just in the form of the website accessible to the public, databases and the virtual exhibition, but also during educational lectures and interviews on cultural radios. We also gave numerous conference papers in the topic.
Conference papers
Conference paper 1. Péter Bozó: “Wagner, Offenbach and the formation of the theatrical institution-system in Budapest in the Dualism”. Conference paper themed on the V4 project. Symposium: “Professionals and amateurs: The institutionalization of making music from the Middle Ages to the present”. The 14th Scientific Conference of the Hungarian Musicological Society. Date: 14–15 October 2017. Venue: HAS RCH Institute for Musicology, Budapest, Hungary.
Conference paper 2. Lili Békéssy: “Military band during the Kaiserreises in Hungary”. Symposium: “Professionals and amateurs: The institutionalization of making music from the Middle Ages to the present”. The 14th Scientific Conference of the Hungarian Musicological Society. Date: 14–15 October 2017. Venue: HAS RCH Institute for Musicology, Budapest, Hungary.
Conference paper 3. Rudolf Gusztin: “The Institutionalization of the Hungarian Liedertafels in the 1860s”. Symposium: “Professionals and amateurs: The institutionalization of making music from the Middle Ages to the present”. The 14th Scientific Conference of the Hungarian Musicological Society. Date: 14–15 October 2017. Venue: HAS RCH Institute for Musicology, Budapest, Hungary.
Conference paper 4. Péter Bozó: “Wagner’s Influence on Bartók reconsidered: The Case of the Wooden Prince (1917)”. Conference paper themed on the V4 project. Symposium: “The Great War 1914-1918 and Music. Compositional Strategies, Performing Practices, and Social Impacts”. Croatian Musicological Society. Date: 24–27 October 2017. Venue: Golden Hall of the Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia.
Conference paper 5, Poster presentation. Jana Laslavíková and Vladimír Zvara: “Musiktheater in Pressburg/Pozsony/Bratislava vom Österreichisch-Ungarischen Ausgleich bis zum zweiten Weltkrieg”. Symposium: Musik lehren – Musik lernen. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft (ÖGMW), 22–25 November 2017. Date & time: 23 November 2017, 9:00–12:30. Venue: Fanny Hensel-Saal, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien.
Conference paper 6. Rudolf Gusztin: “The repertoire of the Liedertafel-movement in its first decade (The connection between the Liedertafel-movement and the music theatre).” Conference paper themed on the V4 project. Symposium: “Interpretation and performance practice”. The 15th Scientific Conference of the Hungarian Musicological Society. Date: 12–13 October 2018. Venue: HAS RCH Institute for Musicology, Budapest, Hungary.
Conference paper 7. Lili Békéssy: “Variations on opera themes in the mid-19th century Pest-Buda”. Conference paper themed on the V4 project. Symposium: “Interpretation and performance practice”. The 15th Scientific Conference of the Hungarian Musicological Society. Date: 12–13 October 2018. Venue: HAS RCH Institute for Musicology, Budapest, Hungary.
Conference paper 8. Katalin Kim Szacsvai: “ʻWith necessary changes’: Author’s corrections and authorized compromises in the national theatre versions of Erkel’s operas.” Conference paper themed on the V4 project. Symposium: “Interpretation and performance practice”. The 15th Scientific Conference of the Hungarian Musicological Society. Date: 12–13 October 2018. Venue: HAS RCH Institute for Musicology, Budapest, Hungary.
Conference paper 9. Pál Horváth: “From Singspiel [énekesjáték] to Hungarian Opera”. Conference paper themed on the V4 project. Symposium: “Interpretation and performance practice”. The 15th Scientific Conference of the Hungarian Musicological Society. Date: 12–13 October 2018. Venue: HAS RCH Institute for Musicology, Budapest, Hungary.
Conference paper 10. Péter Bozó: “Performance material as text-critical problem (In the mirror of the plays of the National Theater).” Conference paper themed on the V4 project. Symposium: “Interpretation and performance practice”. The 15th Scientific Conference of the Hungarian Musicological Society. Date: 12–13 October 2018. Venue: HAS RCH Institute for Musicology, Budapest, Hungary.
Conference paper 11. Katalin Kim Szacsvai: “Ferenc Erkel’s Anthem and it’s performances in the National Theatre”. Conference paper themed on the V4 project. Symposium: “Small personalities of great history – great personalities of small history – on musical regionalism”. Date & time: 28–29 November 2018. Venue: Slovak National Museum-Music Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Conference paper 12. Lili Békéssy: “Military bands and multiculturalism. The case of Pest (National Theatre)”, Conference paper themed on the V4 project. Symposium: “Small personalities of great history – great personalities of small history – on musical regionalism”. Date & time: 28–29 November 2018. Venue: Slovak National Museum-Music Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Conference paper 13. Katalin Kim Szacsvai: “The Opera as a Stage of Political Representation? Hungarian opera performances in 1918–1919.” Symposium: “The Birth of Contemporary Europe: Word War I, Music and the Arts”. International conference, 9–11 November 2018. Date & time: 9 November 2018, 10:30–12:00. Venue: Music Library of Greece of the Friends of Music Society, Megaron-The Athens Concert Hall, Athens, Greece (https://ww1-music-conf.eu/about/).
Educational lectures
Educational lecture 1. Jana Laslavíková: “The Late 19th-Century Theatrical Life in Pressburg (Bratislava)”. Date: 9 November 2017. Venue: Institute for Musicology at the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University, Bratislava. (Note: We could not correct the date of the event in the Online System prior to the implementation of the event.)
Educational lecture 2. Péter Bozó: “Operetta in Hungary, 1860–1920: The Results of the Study of Sources”. Date & time: 21 November 2017, 9:30–11:00. Venue: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, 1061 Budapest, Liszt Ferenc tér 8.
Educational lecture 3. Rudolf Gusztin: “Hungarian Music in the 19th-Century”. Lecture for the students of the Balassi Bálint Gimnázium in Balassagyarmat on the “The Reform Era and Romanticism” thematic day. Date & time: 23 February 2018, 9:30–10:30. Venue: Balassi Bálint Gimnázium in Balassagyarmat.
Educational lecture 4. Katalin Kim Szacsvai: “The Critical Edition of Ferenc Erkel’s Operas: The Erkel Workshop”. Lecture at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music as part of the “Tuesday Afternoon Musicology” lecture-series. Date & time: 20 March 2018, 14:30–16:00. Venue: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.
Educational lecture 5. Jana Laslavíková: “Transformations of Theater Life in the 19th Century in Pressburg / Bratislava”. Lecture for the students of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Presov. Date & time: 5 April 2018, 11:00–13:00. Venue: Institute of Music and Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Presov, Presov.
Educational lecture 6. Lenka Křupková: Educational lecture in the topic of the V4 project at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc. Date & time: 24 April 2018, 15:00–16:30. Venue: Department of Musicology, Faculty of Philosophy, Robert Smetana classroom.
Educational lecture 7. Katalin Kim Szacsvai: “Arbeitsteilung in der Komposition. Die ‘Erkel-Werkstatt’”. Educational lecture in the topic of V4 project at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. Date & time: 24 May 2018, 18:00. Venue: Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Raum A 0201, 1010 Wien, Seilerstätte 26.
Educational lecture 8. Jana Laslavíková: “From the history of the City Theatre”. Educational lecture in the topic of the V4 project. Date & time: 29 May 2018, 18:00. Venue: City Museum Bratislava.
Educational lecture 9. Renata Suchowiejko, Educational lecture in the topic of the V4 project at the Jagiellonian University. Date & time: 7 June 2018, 11:30–13:00. Venue: Institute of Musicology, Faculty of History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków.
Educational lecture 10. Katalin Kim Szacsvai, “Erkel Ferenc Operas. Source studies and critical editing”. Educational lecture in the topic of the V4 project. Date & time: 10 December 2018, 12:00–14:30. Venue: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc.
Radio interviews
Radio interview 1. Radio interview about the collaboration within the Visegrad Fund Project with Slovakian musicologist Jana Laslavíková. Date & time: 10 November 2017, 14:00–15:00. Radio Station: Radio Devín. Radio Programme: Ars Radio, Denník pre kultúru, umenie, vedu, históriu, spoločnosť, životný štýl. (Note: You will find this event in the Online System under the name Educational Lecture with the date 06/11/2018 – 15/07/2018. We could not correct the details prior to the implementation of the event.)
Radio interview 2. Radio interview with Katalin Kim Szacsvai themed on the V4 project on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Ferenc Erkel’s death. Part 1. Date & time: 28 May 2018, 19:00-19:30. Radio Station: Bartók Radio. Edited by Márta Katona. Évfordulók nyomában [In the footsteps of anniversaries].
Radio interview 3. Radio interview with Katalin Kim Szacsvai themed on the V4 project on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Ferenc Erkel’s death. Part 2. Date & time: 6 June 2018, 19:00-19:30. Radio Station: Bartók Radio. Edited by Márta Katona. Évfordulók nyomában [In the footsteps of anniversaries].
Radio interview 4. Radio interview with Katalin Kim Szacsvai themed on the V4 project on the occasion of a newly discovered autograph of Ferenc Erkel. Date & time: 8 September. Radio Station: Bartók Radio. Edited by Márta Katona. Új Zenei Újság [New Music Journal].
Study trips
The main objective of the project was to elaborate a complex multi-language database on the East-Central European musical theatre. To achieve this goal we created two databases (see: Outputs): the bibliographical database of the V4 countries' musical theatricals and the database of its source material’s locations. No similar database has been compiled in any of the V4 countries from the years we are researching. For both databases besides the summary of our existing results we also made new researches. There were three main goals for the study trips: source research (assessment of the source situation, contents of the fonds, source analysis), building relationships with those institutions that keep the sources (establishing future researches), the presentation of our V4 project (presentation of the brochure, project, and the plans of the databases).
Study trip 1. Destination: Opava (Czech Republik). Date: 06 February 2018. (=Study trip, establishing institutional relations, presentation of the project (database) in Praha, Opava, Brno 1) Participant: Lenka Křupková. Description: Lenka Křupková studied sources on the history of theatre/opera from the period app. 1870–1930, she aimed at the literature and sources of the theatre in Opava (Troppau) in the following institutions: Opava, Slezské zemské muzeum, Zemský archiv v Opavě. She also established institutional relations with these institutions and presented the project.
Study trip 2. Destination: Graz (Austria). Date: 27–28 February 2018. Participants: Lenka Křupková and Jiří Kopecký. Description: Jiří Kopecký and Lenka Křupková studied sources on the history of theatre/opera from the period app. 1870–1930, they aimed at the relationship between the theatres in Graz and Olomouc in the following institutions: Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz – Universitätsbibliothek (Beethovenstrasse), Franz Nabl Institut (Elisabethstrasse), Mediathek (Universitätsstrasse). They also established institutional relations with these institutions and presented the project.
Study trip 3. Destination: Budapest (Hungary). Date: 26–28 March 2018. Participant: Jana Laslavíková. (=Study trip to Budapest 1) Description: Jana Laslavikova processed sources for the Bratislava theatrical life to be found in Budapest at the following institutions: the Music Collection and the Manuscripts Reading Room of the National Széchényi Library, the National Archives of Hungary, the National Archives of Hungary Pest County Archives, the Institute for Musicology, and the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute. She also established relations with these institutions and presented the project. (Note: The event has not been confirmed in the Online System.)
Study trip 4. Destination: Vienna (Austria). Date: 26–27 April 2018. Participant: Péter Bozó. Description: Péter Bozó, researcher at the Institute for Musicology, RCH, HAS, explored the sources and the period press reports related to the history of Hungarian operetta in the collections of the following Viennese libraries: Nationalbibliothek (Musiksammlung, Theatersammung), Stadtbibliothek Wien, Bibliothek der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunden Wien. He also established relations with these institutions and presented the project.
Study trip 5. Destination: Praha (Czech Republic). Date: 07/05/2018 – 14/05/2018. Participant: Lenka Křupková. (= Study trip, establishing institutional relations, presentation of the project (database) in Praha, Opava, Brno 2) Description: Lenka Křupková studied sources on the history of theatre/opera in the period of 1870–1930, she aimed at the literature and sources of the theatre in Olomouc and Opava (Troppau) in the institution Divadelní ústav Praha. She also cultivated relations with this institution and presented the project. (Note: We could not correct the date in the Online System before the implementation of the event. You will find the following date in the online System: 07/05/2018.)
Study trip 6. Destination: Budapest (Hungary). Date: 16/05/2018 – 20/05/2018. Participant: Jana Laslavíková. (= Study trip to Budapest 2) Description: Jana Laslaviková processed sources for the Bratislava theatrical life to be found in Budapest at the following institutions: the Music Collection and the Manuscripts Reading Room of the National Széchényi Library, the National Archives of Hungary, the National Archives of Hungary Pest County Archives, the Institute for Musicology, and the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute. She also cultivated relations with these institutions and presented the project. (Note: You will find this event in the Online System under the title Study trip, with the date 15/1/2018 – 15/4/2018. We failed to correct the event’s title and date before the event took place.)
Study trip 7. Destination: Brno (Czech Republic). Date: 17/05/2018. Participant: Jiří Kopecký. (= Study trip, establishing institutional relations, presentation of the project (database) in Praha, Opava, Brno 3). Description: Jiří Kopecký studies sources pertaining to the theatrical life of Olomouc at the following institutions: Moravská zemská knihovna; Moravský zemský archiv. He also cultivated relations with these institutions and presented the project.
Study trip 8. Destination: Praha (Czech Republic). Date: 18/05/2018 – 19/05/2018. Participant: Jiří Kopecký. (Study trip, establishing institutional relations, presentation of the project (database) in Praha, Opava, Brno 4). Description: Jiří Kopecký studies sources related to the 19th-century history of the theatres in Praha and Olomouc at the Institut umění – Divadelní ústav. He also cultivated relations with this institution and presented the project. (Note: The event has not been confirmed in the Online System.)
Study trip 9. Destination: Opava (Czech Republic). Date: 01/06/2018. Participant: Jiří Kopecký. (= Study trip, establishing institutional relations, presentation of the project (database) in Praha, Opava, Brno 5). Description: Jiří Kopecký studied music manuscripts and printed materials (posters, papers by Karel Boženek) at the Slezské zemské muzeum in Opava. He also cultivated relations with these institution and presented the project. (Note: The event has not been confirmed in the Online System.)
Study trip 10. Destination: Budapest (Hungary). Date: 19/06/2019 – 20/06/2018. Participant: Jana Laslavíková. (= Study trip to Budapest 3). Description: Jana Laslavikova processed sources for the Bratislava theatrical life to be found in Budapest at the following institutions: the Music Collection and the Manuscripts Reading Room of the National Széchényi Library, the National Archives of Hungary, the National Archives of Hungary Pest County Archives, the Institute for Musicology, and the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute. She also cultivated relations with these institutions and presented the project. (Note: The event has not been confirmed in the Online System.)
Study trip 11. Destination: Bratislava (Slovak Republic). Date: 26/07/2018. Participant: Martin Elek, Lili Békéssy, Pál Horváth, Katalin Kim Szacsvai. (= Study trip, establishing institutional relations, presentation of the project (database). Description: Members of the Department for Hungarian Music History of the Institute for Musicology, RCH, HAS presented the project, established and studied sources related to operatic life between 1870–1920 at the following institutions: Slovenské národné múzeum-Hudobné múzeum; Archív mesta Bratislavy. As a result of the presentation, two person from the research group was invited to the conference in autumn organized by the museum. See Events conference papers 7–8. (Note: This event has not been confirmed in the Online System.)
Study trip 12. Destination: Pécs (Hungary). Date: 03/10/2018 – 04/10/2018. Participant: Rudolf Gusztin. (= Study trip, establishing institutional relations, presentation of the project (database) in Debrecen, Szeged, Pécs, Székesfehérvár 1) Description: Rudolf Gusztin studied sources (music manuscripts and printed scores, playbills, receipts, inventories) on 19- and early 20th-century operatic life in Pécs. He made photocopies of sources, established institutional relations and presented the project at the following institutions: Pécs Városi Könyvtár (Pécs City Library); Pécsi Nemzeti Színház (National Theatre of Pécs); Pécsi Tudományegyetem, Egyetemi Könyvtár (University of Pécs, University Library). (Note: This event was part of a broader event: Study trip, establishing institutional relations, presentation of the project (database) (Debrecen, Szeged, Pécs, Székesfehérvár). Due to a misunderstanding we couldn’t create sub-events in the Online System.)
Study trip 13. Destination: Szeged (Hungary). Date: 15/10/2018. Participant: Martin Elek. (Study trip, establishing institutional relations, presentation of the project (database) in Debrecen, Szeged, Pécs, Székesfehérvár 2) Description: The goal of the study trip was to study 19- and early 20th-century sources related to Szeged. Martin Elek visited the Szegedi Nemzeti Színház (National Theatre of Szeged), where he made photocopies of historical sources (music manuscripts and printed scores, inventories; cc. 450 images) and presented the project to the director of the institution, laying ground for potential further collaboration. Then, he went to the Somogyi Károly Városi és Megyei Könyvtár (Károly Somogyi City and County Library) where he presented the project and studied relevant sources. (Note: see note Study trip 12.)
Study trip 14. Destination: Debrecen. Date: 18/10/2018. Participants: Martin Elek, Rudolf Gusztin, Lili Békéssy. (= Study trip, establishing institutional relations, presentation of the project (database) in Debrecen, Szeged, Pécs, Székesfehérvár 3) Description: Members of the Department for Hungarian Music History of the Institute for Musicology, RCH, HAS studied sources (music manuscripts and printed scores, playbills, receipts, inventories) on 19- and early 20th-century operatic life in Debrecen. They made photocopies of the sources (cc. 2100 images), established institutional relations and presented the project at the following institutions: Csokonai Nemzeti Színház (Csokonai National Theatre); Debreceni Egyetem Egyetemi és Nemzeti Könyvtár Médiatára (University of Debrecen, University and National Library, Media Store). (Note: see note Study trip 12.)
Study trip 15. Destination: Székesfehérvár. Date: 18/10/2018. Participant: Pál Horváth, Katalin Kim Szacsvai. (=Title: Study trip, establishing institutional relations, presentation of the project (database) in Debrecen, Szeged, Pécs, Székesfehérvár 4) Description: Members of the Department for Hungarian Music History of the Institute for Musicology, RCH, HAS studied sources (music manuscripts and printed scores, playbills, receipts, inventories) on 19- and early 20th-century operatic life in Székesfehérvár. They made photocopies of the sources (cc. 2100 images), established institutional relations and presented the project at the following institutions: Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár, Fejér Megyei Levéltár (The Hungarian National Archives, Fejér County Archives); Szent István Múzeum Könyvtára (Library of the Saint Stephen Museum); Kodolányi János Egyetem (Kodolányi János University). (Note: see note Study trip 12.)
Study trip 16. Destination: Pécs (Hungary). Date: 05/11/2018 – 08/11/2018. Participants: Rudolf Gusztin, Pál Horváth. (= Study trip to Pécs [Study trip, establishing institutional relations, presentation of the project (database) in Debrecen, Szeged, Pécs, Székesfehérvár 5]). Description: Rudolf Gusztin and Pál Horváth studied sources (music manuscripts and printed scores, playbills, receipts, inventories) on 19- and early 20th-century operatic life in Pécs. He made photocopies of sources (cc. 2550 images), established institutional relations and presented the project at the following institutions: Pécs Városi Könyvtár (Pécs City Library); Pécsi Nemzeti Színház (National Theatre of Pécs); Pécsi Tudományegyetem, Egyetemi Könyvtár (University of Pécs, University Library). (Note: see note Study trip 12.)
Study trip 17. Destination: Lviv (Ukraine). Participant: Renata Suchowiejko. Description: The event has not been implemented due to the unexpected illness of the partner. The Fund was informed about it, see the e-mail sent on 29/08/2018.
Workshops
The Network of the Musical Theatre Companies in the Multilingual East-Central Europe. An Essentially International Genre and Its Repertoire in the Service of Nation–building. (Sources and Common Methods in the Processing of the Historical Source-material. Budapest, HAS Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities
Instead of the one workshop stipulated in the proposal we organised three meetings with the research group. The goal of the workshops were the preparation and creation of the outputs (designing the databases, discussion concerning the articles in the publications, and the lecture recital), and to get familiar with each other’s academic achievements in order to lay foundations for a collaboration concentrating on the study of the history of the region’s musical theatre. Beside the V4 participants, we had a guest researcher of the project, Tatjana Markovič (Vienna, University of Music and Performing Arts), who alongside presenting her paper as it was stipulated, also took active part in all three meetings, participated in designing the databases, complemented the lecture recital and the virtual exhibition with Serbian-Croatian material, and expressed her wish to remain part of the future collaboration.
The aim of the open workshops organized in Budapest by the Department for Hungarian Music History of the Institute for Musicology, RCH, HAS was to deepen cooperation launched under the project and the discussion of topics formulated in the framework of the project. Three workshops were held during the project. The first workshop was on the 26th—28th March 2018. This way we had a six month period at our disposal to clarify by online consultation the occurring issues and to prepare the meeting and the thematic concert. The workshop included the following: 1) short introduction of the members, discussion on bibliography and source databases, 2) planning the concert program (meeting with Ingrid Kertesi soprano), 3) planning the next workshop and the future of the project (directions of expanding the research field). During the three days, the guests visited the Music collection of the National Széchényi Library. Issues raised at the workshop were: (1) the sources of musical theatre in the period of 1870–1920 and their processing; (2) the regional network: touring ensembles, repertoire, music trade; (3) the output of the project: discussion on structure of the regional source database, the concept of the publication concluding the project, the plans of a complex database of musical theatre to be elaborated as the continuation of the project. The second workshop was held on the 28th—29th of May 2018, Budapest, Hungary. The program was the following: (1) presentations of the project participants (the abstracts are available here); (2) scientific presentation held by Tatjana Markovič, the external lecturer invited to the workshop (“The Network of the Music Theatrical Companies in the West-Balkan Countries”), (3) discussions (databases, publications and the preparatory work of the lecture recital); (4) meeting and consultation with the IT manager of the databases; (5) attending an opera performance fitting in the V4 theme (Béla Bartók: A kékszakálló herceg vára/Bluebeard’s Castle) at the Hungarian State Opera, Erkel Theatre. The presentations and lectures themed around the circulation and the routes of the musical repertoire in the East-Central European region: theoretical questions related to the repertoire were discussed (e.g. establishing national theatres, national movements, regionalism), furthermore they reported on the situation of the source material and its processing. The third workshop was on the 18th—19th June 2018. This mainly included discussions about the databases and publications. It was decided at this discussion that instead of a planned short project report issue we close the project with a smaller book with publications, and we also layed out the virtual exhibition using the material of the lecture recital for the website of the project, and negotiated about the possible forms of the further common project. The workshop was followed by the lecture recital: “The Operatic Industry in East-Central Europe (1870–1920). An Essentially International Genre and Its Repertoire in the Service of Nation-building” in the Bartók Hall of the HAS Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities. The aria recital delivered by Ingrid Kertesi (soprano) and Tamás Kéry (piano), with the brief lectures by the participants of the project and the guest scholar Tatjana Markovič about the compositions included into the programme. The lecture recital was successful, which was underlined by the multilingualism of the brief presentations and the selected arias. The V4 feature of the night was emphasized by the bilingualism of the brief presentations, which were read out on the language of the V4 country and also in Hungarian language. The audience was informed about our project from the PowerPoint presentations, the brochure of the project in English and the program guide in Hungarian.
Events calendar
Conference Presentations
Conference papers themed on the V4 project. Symposium: “Interpretation and performance practice”. The 15th Scientific Conference of the Hungarian Musicological Society. Date: 12–13 October 2018. Venue: HAS RCH Institute for Musicology, Budapest, Hungary.
Rudolf Gusztin: “The repertoire of the Liedertafel-movement in its first decade (The connection between the Liedertafel-movement and the music theatre).”
Lili Békéssy: “Variations on opera themes in the mid-19th century Pest-Buda”.
Katalin Kim Szacsvai: “ʻWith necessary changes’: Author’s corrections and authorized compromises in the national theatre versions of Erkel’s operas.”
Pál Horváth: “From Singspiel [énekesjáték] to Hungarian Opera”
Péter Bozó: “Performance material as text-critical problem (In the mirror of the plays of the National Theater).”
Radio Interviews
Radio interview with Katalin Kim Szacsvai themed on the V4 project on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Ferenc Erkel’s death. Part 1.
Date & time: 28 May 2018, 19:00-19:30.
Radio Station: Bartók Radio.
Edited by Márta Katona. Évfordulók nyomában [In the footsteps of anniversaries].
Radio interview with Katalin Kim Szacsvai themed on the V4 project on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Ferenc Erkel’s death. Part 2.
Date & time: 6 June 2018, 19:00-19:30.
Radio Station: Bartók Radio.
Edited by Márta Katona. Évfordulók nyomában [In the footsteps of anniversaries].
Radio interview with Katalin Kim Szacsvai themed on the V4 project on the occasion of a newly discovered autograph of Ferenc Erkel.
Date & time: 8 September.
Radio Station: Bartók Radio.
Edited by Márta Katona. Új Zenei Újság [New Music Journal].
V4 Concert
Opera in Eastern-Central-Europe (1870–1920) – A Cosmopolitan Genre Serving Nation-building
Ingrid Kertesi’s concert of opera arias and songs
Date & time: 19th June 2018, 6 p.m.
Venue: Institute for Musicology, Hungary, 1014 Budapest, Táncsics Mihály u. 7.
To see the concert program, click here. To watch the concert, click here.
Educational Lecture
Renata Suchowiejko, Prof. UJ
Educational lecture in the topic of the V4 project at the Jagiellonian University
Date & time: 7th June 2018, 11:30 a.m.–13:00 p.m.
Venue: Institute of Musicology, Faculty of History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Educational Lecture
Jana Laslavíková PhD: "From the history of city theater"
Educational lecture in the topic of the V4 project
Date & time: 29th May 2018, 18:00 p.m.
Venue: City Museum Bratislava
For more information, click here. To see the pictures about the event, click here.
V4 Workshop
Workshop for the V4 project participants. The draft of the programme can be read here, and the abstracts are available here.
Date: 28th—29th May 2018
Venue: Budapest, Hungary
Educational Lecture
Katalin Szacsvai Kim: ”Arbeitsteilung in der Komposition. Die "Erkel-Werkstatt"”
Educational lecture in the topic of V4 project at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Date & time: 24th May 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Raum A 0201, 1010 Wien, Seilerstätte 26
Educational Lecture
Lenka Křupková PhD
Educational lecture in the topic of the V4 project at the Palacky University
Date & time: 24th April 2018, 15:00 p.m.–16:30 p.m.
Venue: Department of Musicology, Faculty of Philosophy, Robert Smetana classroom
Educational Lecture
Jana Laslavíková PhD: ”Transformations of Theater Life in the 19th Century in Pressburg / Bratislava”
Lecture for the students of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Presov
Date & time: 5th April 2018, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Venue: Institute of Music and Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Presov, Presov
V4 Meeting
First meeting for the V4 project participants. The draft of the programme can be read here.
Date: 26th—28th March 2018
Venue: Budapest, Hungary
Educational Lecture
Katalin Szacsvai Kim: ”The Critical Edition of Ferenc Erkel's Operas: The Erkel Workshop”
Lecture for the students of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music as part of the ”Tuesday Afternoon Musicology” lecture-series
Date & time: 20th March 2018, 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Venue: Franz Liszt Academy of Music
Educational Lecture
Rudolf Gusztin: ”Hungarian Music in the 19th-Century”
Lecture for the students of the Balassi Bálint Gimnázium in Balassagyarmat on the ”The Reform Era and Romanticism” thematic day
Date & time: 23rd February 2018, 9:30–10:30
Venue: Balassi Bálint Gimnázium in Balassagyarmat
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Educational Lecture
Jana Laslavíková PhD: ”The Late 19th-Century Theatrical Life in Pressburg (Bratislava)”
Date: 9th November 2017
Venue: Institute for Musicology at the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University, Bratislava
Abstract: The theatrical life in Pressburg at the end of the 19th century was centred on the newly built Municipal Theatre, designated as Városi Színház or Stadttheater. The building belonged to the municipality and its history commenced on 22 September 1886. Until 1920, the repertoire was performed in German and Hungarian, alternately. The regular audience included the Pressburg bourgeoisie, whose daily visits exhibited a tendency towards education, entertainment, and an authentic local patriotism.
Radio Interview
Radio interview about the collaboration within the Visegrad Fund Project with Slovakian musicologist Jana Laslavíková PhD
Date & time: 10th November 2017, 2:00–3:00 p.m.
Website: http://www.rtvs.sk/radio/program/1327
Radio Station: Radio Devín
Radio Programme: Ars Radio, Denník pre kultúru, umenie, vedu, históriu, spoločnosť, životný štýl
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Educational Lecture
Péter Bozó PhD: Operetta in Hungary, 1860-1920: The Results of the Study of Sources
Lecture for the PhD and DLA students of the Doctoral School of the Budapest Liszt Academy of Music
Date & time: 21th November 2017, 9:30–11:00 a.m.
Venue: Liszt Academy of Music, 1061 Budapest, Liszt Ferenc tér 8.
Poster Presentation
Jana Laslavíková PhD & Doc. Mgr. Vladimír Zvara PhD: ”Musiktheater in Pressburg/Pozsony/Bratislava vom Österreichisch-Ungarischen Ausgleich bis zum zweiten Weltkrieg”
Symposium: Musik lehren – Musik lernen. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft (ÖGMW), 22–25. November 2017
Date & time: 23rd November 2017, 9:00–12:30
Venue: Fanny Hensel-Saal, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien
Abstract: You can read the abstract on the 38th page of the symposium's programme.
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