Purcell, Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn: Anniversary Reflections
New College, Oxford
27-29 March 2009
New College, Oxford
27-29 March 2009
Abstracts
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Friday 27 March
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10.00 - Registration, Old Bursary
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[Lecture Room 6]
11.30 Session 1: Dance Chair: Suzanne Aspden 11.30 Jennifer Thorp (New College, Oxford): 'To come to a resolution about the dancers': Anthony L'Abbé and the staging of opera at the King's Theatre, London, 1719-1721 12.00 Stephanie Schroedter (University of Bayreuth): Henry Purcell between history and contemporary performance practise: choreographing Dido and Aeneas. 12.30 Domenico Pietropaolo (University of Toronto): The Aesthetics of Grotesque Dance in the Commedia dell'Arte Tradition |
[Lecture Room 4]
11.30 Session 2: Biography Chair: Peter Ward Jones 11.30 Maria Teresa Arfini (Milan and Osta University): Music as autobiography: Mendelssohn between Beethoven and Schumann 12.00 Peter Horton (Royal College of Music) and Bettina Mühlenbeck (University of Bern - withdrawn): Felix Mendelssohn and William Sterndale Bennett: An artistic friendship 12.30 Christopher Wiley (City University, London): Late Victorian appropriations in the biographies of Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn. |
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1.00 - Lunch, Hall, New College
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[Lecture Room 6]
2.00 Session 3: Biography Chair: Suzanne Aspden 2.00 Sinéad Dempsey-Garratt (University of Manchester): Odious comparisons? The roles of Handel, Haydn and Purcell in Mendelssohn's nineteenth-century reception 2.30 John Higney (Carleton University): 'The most perfect models': Purcell, Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn in The Harmonicon (1823-1833) 3.00 Benedict Taylor (Princeton University): Beyond the ethical and aesthetic; on reconciling religious art with secular art-religion in Mendelssohn historiography 3.30 James Garratt (University of Manchester): Nietzsche as music historian |
[Lecture Room 4]
2.00 Session 4: Later reception Chair: Donald Burrows 2.00 Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson (Brentwood, Essex): Purcell's mad songs at the time of Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn 2.30 Sandra Tuppen (The British Library): 'Purcell in the 18th century: music for the "Quality, Gentry, and others"' 3.00 Michaela Freemanova (Ethnological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences):* Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn in the music history of Bohemian lands 3.30 Michael Burden (New College, Oxford University): Fox and Pitt as Grimbald and Philidel; an 18th-century political use for King Arthur *Delegate absent, paper will be read |
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4.00 - Tea, Junior Common Room, New College
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[Lecture Room 6]
4.30 Session 5: Handel Chair: Donald Burrows 4.30 Amanda Babington (University of Manchester): The autograph of Messiah; a case-study in Handel's methods of construction 5.00* Ilias Chrissochoidis (Stanford University)**: Handel as a transitional figure 5.30 Anthony Hicks (Open University): Sir Thomas Beecham: a 20th century Handelian *Berta Joncus has withdrawn ** Delegate absent, paper will be read |
[Lecture Room 4]
4.30 Session 6: Mendelssohn Chair: Peter Ward Jones 4.30 Lorraine Byrne Bodley (National University of Ireland, Maynooth): Lux perpetua: Goethe's presence in Mendelsshon's journeyman years 5.00 Colin Eatock (University of Toronto): 'Mendelssohn's conversion to Judaism: an English perspective' 5.30 Ryan Minor (Stony Brook University): Memory and multiplicity in Felix Mendelssohn's 'Gutenberg' works. |
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[New College Chapel]
6.00 Session 7: Lecture recital Derek McCulloch (Café Mozart): Popularisations of Haydn's Music in England & Germany in the late 18th Century With members of Café Mozart |
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7.30 - Drinks reception, Founder's Library
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8.00 - Dinner, Hall
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