Partimento – Realizing its Potential
International Conference
The conference will be free of charge, but registration for passive participants is required. To register please send an email to altemusik@mdw.ac.at stating whether you wish to participate in person or online.
The „warm-up sessions“ at the beginning of each day are intended to get all participants in tune with the fundamentals of partimento: singing. As a group we will experience applied counterpoint and singing in dialogue with historical solfeggio, before these techniques are applied to the participants’ own instruments in the workshops.
„Harvest time“ will see the „fruits“ of the work on the various partimento tasks in the workshops being reaped and presented. In addition to short presentations, we would like to encourage interaction between the participants and, where appropriate, spontaneous experimentation.
„Kaleidoscope“ sessions will consist of lightning talks, held online or in person. The maximum time allowed is 20 minutes including questions.
DIENSTAG / TUESDAY, 12.11.2024
11:00–11:30 UHR: WILLKOMMEN / WELCOME UND WARM UP
11:30–12:00 UHR: INTONAZIONE OR PRAEAMBULUM
Augusta Campagne “Did partimento fall from Heaven?”
14:00 UHR: ERÖFFNUNG / OPENING
14:30–15:30 UHR: KEYNOTE LECTURE (Chair: Johannes Weiss)
Robert Gjerdingen: “Letting go of J.S. Bach”
16:00–17:15 UHR: VORTRÄGE / PAPERS / LECTURE RECITALS (Chair: Markus Grassl)
Jean-Christophe Dijoux: „…daß alles aneinander hänget“: Mattheson’s Probestücke” (Lecture recital)
Niels Pfeffer: “Probstücke Digital: Realizing the potential of a digital partimento edition”
17:45–18:45 UHR: VORTRÄGE / PAPERS / LECTURE RECITALS (Chair: Markus Grassl)
Dirk Boerner/Markus Schwenkreis: “Departing from partimento – creative use of partimenti by Kirchhoff and Fenaroli in teaching improvisation” (Lecture recital)
19:00–20:00 Uhr: HARVEST TIME WITH A FOCUS ON GERMAN SOURCES (Chair: Erich Traxler)
MITTWOCH / WEDNESDAY, 13.11.2024
10:00 UHR: WARM UP
10:30–12:45 UHR: WORKSHOPS (various workshops for harpsichordists, organists, pianists, and players of melodic instruments)
14:30–15:30 UHR: KEYNOTE LECTURE RECITAL (Chair: Martin Eybl)
John Mortensen: “From manuscript to concert stage: Realizing partimento’s potential for improvisation”
16:00–18:00 Uhr: VORTRÄGE / PAPERS / LECTURE RECITALS (Chair: Patrick Boenke)
Giorgio Sanguinetti: “The making of a partimento syllabus: Another look at the Rules”
Nicoleta Paraschivescu: “Pedagogical and artistic elements in Giovanni Paisiello’s “Regole per bene accompagnare il partimento (St. Petersburg, 1782)”” (Lecture recital)
Karin Nelson: “Hidden Pedagogy – Examples from historical organ repertoire used in today’s teaching” (Lecture recital)
18:30–20:00 UHR: HARVEST TIME WITH A FOCUS ON PEDAGOGY (SUSANNE ABED-NAVANDI AND OTHERS)
DONNERSTAG / THURSDAY, 14.11.2024
10:00 UHR: WARM UP
10:30–12:45 UHR: WORKSHOPS (various workshops for harpsichordists, organists, pianists, and players of melodic instruments)
14:30–15:30 UHR: KEYNOTE LECTURE (Chair: Giorgio Sanguinetti)
Peter van Tour: “Partimento reinvigorated: unpacking its impact in ‘the digital age’”
16:00–17:30 Uhr: VORTRÄGE / PAPERS / LECTURE RECITALS (Chair: Livio Marcaletti)
Robert de Bree: “How could partimento sound on a melodic instrument?” (Lecture recital)
Giovanna Barbati: “The art of accompaniment and the partimento tradition on the cello in Naples (17th-18th century)” (Lecture recital)
17:45–18:45 Uhr: KALEIDOSCOPE (Chair: Eugène Michelangeli)
Lightning papers (Bahn, Longenecker, Trilha)
19:00–20:30 Uhr: HARVEST TIME
FREITAG / FRIDAY, 15.11.2024
10:00 UHR: WARM UP
10:30–12:45 UHR: WORKSHOPS (various workshops for harpsichordists, organists, pianists, and players of melodic instruments)
14:30–15:30 Uhr: KALEIDOSCOPE
Lightning papers (Canzano, Curtice, Pollaci)
16:00–17:30 Uhr: VORTRÄGE / PAPERS / LECTURE RECITALS (Chair: Frauke Jürgensen)
Fabio Antonio Falcone “The transmission of stylistic knowledge through the practice of partimenti: the contribution of Pasquini”
Matteo Messori: “Giovanni Alberto Ristori’s Esercizi per l’Accompagnamento” (Lecture recital)
18:00 UHR: SCHLUSSWORT / ROUNDTABLE – CLOSING WORDS (Chair: NN)
Gjerdingen / Mortensen / van Tour / Sanguinetti
