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International Musicological Symposium in the Framework of the Bartók World Competition & Festival
Bartók Hall, Institute for Musicology Research Centre for the Humanities Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Programme Booklet of the Symposium in English (pdf) >
Official Website of the Bartók World Competition and Festival >
Programme of the Symposium
Session 1 (morning) Thursday, 14 September 2017
9.45–10.00 Opening addresses
10.00–11.15 Keynote speech
David Cooper (Leeds University): Bartók, Biography and the Violin
11.30–13.00 Paper session, chair: David Cooper
Virág Büky (Budapest Bartók Archives): The Appearance of the ‘Ideal’ and other Topoi in Bartók’s Two Violin-Piano Sonatas
Sylveline Bourion (Université de Montréal): Bartók on the Violin: Integration and Transformation of Romanian and Hungarian Folk Music in His Two Violin Rhapsodies
Zsombor Németh (Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest): Imre Waldbauer and Béla Bartók
Session 2 (afternoon) Thursday, 14 September 2017
14.00–15.15 Keynote speech
Elliott Antokoletz (University of Texas, Austin): Tonality or Atonality in Bartók’s Sonata No. 2? From Folk Modalities to a Twelve-Tone Language
15.30–17.00 Paper session, chair: Elliott Antokoletz
Sarah Lucas (University of Iowa): Performance and Reception of Bartók’s Violin Music during His First Concert Tour of the United States (1927–1928)
Viola Biró (Budapest Bartók Archives): Bartók’s Violin Players from Maramureş
Yusuke Nakahara (Budapest Bartók Archives): A Triumph of Musical Order? Multiple Sources of Inspiration in “Prelude and Canon,” Forty-Four Duos, No. 37
Session 3 (morning) Friday, 15 September 2017
10.00–11.15 Keynote speech
Peter Laki (Bard College): The Decade of the Violin Concerto: New Music and the Performer in the 1930s
11.30–13.00 Paper session, chair: Peter Laki
István G. Németh (Institute for Musicology, Budapest): The Influence of Bartók’s Verbunkos-Based Violin Parts on the Work of Adrian Pop
Mohammad Moussa Khalaf (Bar-Ilan University, Israel): Bartók’s Violin: An Arab Musician Looks at the Western World
Session 4 (afternoon) Friday, 15 September 2017
14.00–15.15 Keynote speech
László Somfai (Budapest Bartók Archives): Bartók’s Violin and Piano Sonatas Nos. 1–2: Compositional Process
15.30–17.00 Violin Workshop
Joseph Puglia (Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag): Workshop on Duos for Two Violins by Bartók and Berio
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Organized by
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Institute for Musicology Research Centre for the Humanities Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
Liszt Academy of Music
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Sponsored by
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Ministry of Human Capacities