INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CHOPIN AND LISZT: TWO COMPOSERS AND THEIR RELATION TO THE PARISIAN MUSICAL SCENE
organised by
CENTRO STUDI OPERA OMNIA LUIGI BOCCHERINI
in collaboration with
PALAZZETTO BRU ZANE
(Centre de musique romantique française)
under the auspices of
Association Angevine Franz Liszt
Istituto Liszt (Bologna)
2-4 December 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini and Palazzetto Bru Zane (Centre de musique Romantique Française), under the auspices of the Municipality of Lucca, Province of Lucca and the Association angevine Franz Liszt, are pleased to invite submissions from scholars of proposals for the symposium on Chopin e Liszt: due compositori a confronto nell’universo musicale parigino / Chopin and Liszt: Two Composers and their Relation to the Parisian Musical Scene / Chopin et Liszt : deux compositeurs face à face sur la scène musicale parisienne, to be held in the Palazzo Ducale, Lucca, from Thursday 2 until Saturday 4 December 2010.
The Symposium aims to investigate different facets of the life and works of the two composers, in the context of the Parisian scene during the nineteenth century. The programme committee encourages submissions within the following areas, although other topics are welcome:
- Chopin, Liszt and 19th-century Parisian art
- Chopin’s and Liszt’s oeuvre in the context of the contemporary musical aesthetic
- Liszt’s orchestral works
- Chopin, Liszt and the ‘French Piano School’
- Chopin, Liszt and musical nationalism
- Chopin, Liszt: performers of different styles
- The Contemporary Reception of Chopin’s and Liszt’s music
UNDER THE SCIENTIFIC DIRECTION OF
Luca Sala, Poitiers
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Alexandre Dratwicki, Venice
Nicolas Dufetel, Weimar-Jena
Jean Gribenski, Poitiers
Catherine Massip, Paris
Michela Niccolai, Paris
David Rowland, Milton Keynes (UK)
Massimiliano Sala, Pistoia
Renata Suchowiejko, Krakow
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Rosalba Agresta, Paris
Andrea Barizza, La Spezia
Roberto Illiano, Lucca
Lorenzo Frassà, Lucca
Fulvia Morabito, Lucca
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Cécile Reynaud (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris)
Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald (Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK)
The official languages of the conference are English, French, and Italian. Papers selected for presentation at the conference will be published in a volume of proceedings.
Papers are limited to twenty minutes in length, allowing time for questions and discussion. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words and one page of biography. All proposals should be sent by email by no later than Monday 5 April 2010 to: <cl@luigiboccherini.org>. Please include with your proposal your name, contact details (postal address, e-mail and telephone) and (if applicable) your affiliation.
The committee will make its final decisions on the abstracts by the 15th of May 2010, and contributors will be informed immediately thereafter.
Further information about the programme, registration, travel and accommodation will be announced by the end of June 2010.
For further questions, please contact:
Luca Sala
60, rue Ramey
F - 75018 Paris
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
Université de Poitiers
cl@luigiboccherini.org
www.luigiboccherini.org/CLCONF
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