Dialogue Meeting 2013

Provisional Programme for the Sixth J. S. Bach Dialogue Meeting

Warsaw, 3–7 July 2013

Bach Looking East

 

Bach Network UK in association with the Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw, and

The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Warsaw

 

Wednesday 3 July

University of Warsaw, Senate Hall

17.00 

Inauguration. Welcome. Concert. Reception.

 

Thursday 4 July

University of Warsaw, Senate Hall

10.00–13.00 including coffee break

 

Introductory paper

Szymon Paczkowski (University of Warsaw) Bach and Poland in the 18th century

 

Dialogue Session I – Bach Looking East

Christoph Wolff (Harvard University) Moderator

Hans–Joachim Schulze (Bach-Archiv Leipzig)

Peter Wollny (Bach-Archiv Leipzig)

Michael Maul (Bach-Archiv Leipzig)

Christine Blanken (Bach-Archiv Leipzig)

Manuel Bärwald (Bach-Archiv Leipzig)

 

13.00–14.00 Lunch

 

14.00–15.30

Dialogue Session II – Bach’s Numbers: Sources, Exegesis, Illustration

Ruth Tatlow (Musik- och teaterbibliotek, Statens musikverk, Stockholm)

Joel Speerstra (Göteborg Organ Art Center (GOArt))

 

15.30–16.00 Coffee

 

16.00–17.30

Dialogue Session III – "Bach the Sublime": Australasian Reception of the St. Matthew Passion, 1875–1950

Janice B. Stockigt (The University of Melbourne)

Samantha Owens (The University of Queensland)

Jula Szuster (The University of Adelaide)

Alan Maddox (The University of Sydney)

 

19.00 Concert: The Royal Castle, Great Assembly Hall

Nelson Goerner – Piano

J.S. Bach and F. Chopin

 

 

Friday 5 July

University of Warsaw, Senate Hall

 

10.00–13.00 including coffee break

 

Dialogue Session IV – Analytical issues in Bach’s vocal music

Michael Marissen (Swathmore College, USA) Moderator

Stephen A. Crist (Emory University) A compositional testing ground: Arias in J.S. Bach’s Weimar church cantatas

Markus Rathey (Yale University) The Function of Compositional Revisions in the Christmas Oratorio

Daniel R. Melamed (Indiana University) Did J.S. Bach’s Listeners Analyze?

 

13.00–14.00 Lunch

 

14.00–15.00

Burning Issues I – Bach in the 20^th and 21^st centuries

Bettina Varwig (King’s College London) Bach in the Twenty–First Century

Yulia Kreinin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Choosing an influence, or the Rorschach test: Images of Bach as reflected in 20^th century compositions

 

15.00–15.30 Coffee

 

15.30–17.00

Dialogue Session V – Between Deconstructing and Constructing. Paweł Szymański and Bach

Katarzyna Naliwajek–Mazurek (University of Warsaw)

Maciej Grzybowski (piano) short recital: Paweł Szymański

Paweł Szymański (composer) discussion

 

19.00 Concert: University of Warsaw, Auditorium Maximum

Collegium 1704 Prague

Vaclav Luks – conductor

Johann Sebastian Bach Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
Johann Sebastian Bach Ich habe genug BWV 56
Johann Sebastian Bach Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz BWV 138
Jan Dismas Zelenka Lamentatio I

Jan Dismas Zelenka Miserere ZWV 57

 

Saturday 6 July

University of Warsaw, Senate Hall

 

09.30–11.00

Young Scholars’ Forum

Vasiliki Papadopoulou (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna) Performance history of J. S. Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin on the basis of performance editions

Anna Salamon (Jagellonian University, Kraków) Concertos of Johann Ernst of Saxe–Weimar and their reflection in J.S. Bach’s arrangements

Susan McCormick (Queens University, Belfast) The Chorales of Johann Christian Kittel

Nadya Markovska (Southampton University) Variety as an aesthetic norm in early–eighteenth century music

Chiara Bertoglio (Università di Torino) Instructive Editions of Bach’s WTK and their reception in 19th-century Italy

Olga Gero (Universität Leipzig) The unknown source of the text in Fallax mundus by Dietrich Buxtehude

 

11.00–11.30 Coffee

 

11.30–13.00

Dialogue Session VI ­– Bach and Organology

Alina Mądry (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)

Patryk Frankowski (State Museum of Instruments, Poznań)

Mike Diprose (Basel)

 

13.00–14.00 Lunch

 

14.00–16.00

Burning Issues II – Bach Looking East

Tatiana Shabalina (St. Petersburg, Rimsky–Korsakov Conservatory) Discoveries in St Petersburg: New Perspectives on Bach and Poland

Raymond Erickson (City University of New York) Jews in Bach’s World

Barbara Reul (University of Regina) J. S. Bach and J. F. Fasch in comparison

Janice Stockigt (University of Melbourne) The visit of members of the Dresden Hofkapelle to Bautzen: May 1733

 

16.00–16.30 Coffee

 

General discussion

 

19.00 Hotel Sofitel Victoria

Gala Dinner

 

Sunday 7 July

Warsaw Tour, Fryderyk Chopin Museum, trip to Żelazowa Wola (Chopin's birthplace)