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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
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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
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
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Institute for Musicology Research Centre for the Humanities |
Liszt Academy of Music
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Ministry of Human Capacities