SYMPOSIUM 2021 | »Nel Giorno del Gloriosissimo Nome« – Music for the name day of Leopold I.
08.11.-11.11.2021
Monday, 8 November 2021, Bankettsaal, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna
17:00 Opening of the symposium
Eugène Michelangeli: Welcome and introduction to the event
Markus Grassl: Music for Leopold I’s name day – perspectives on the theme
Accompanied by: Music by C.A. Badia, F.T. Richter, J.H. Schmelzer
Tuesday, 9 November 2021, Festsaal Seilerstätte, Seilerstätte 26, 1010 Vienna
09:00 – 12:30 Lectures and workshops
14:00 – 17:00 Lectures and workshops
Tuesday, 9 November 2021, Festsaal, Seilerstätte, Seilerstätte 26, 1010 Vienna
09:00 – 09:45 Magdalena Hasibeder: Austrian sources on figured bass
10:00 – 12:30 Workshops (vocals & harpsichord): M. C. Kiehr, M. Hasibeder, E. Traxler
14:00 – 17:00 Lectures:
Susanne Rode-Breymann: What musical theatre reveals about Leopold I’s name days: reflections based on the examples of Il Silentio di Harpocrate (1677) and La Magnanimità di Marco Fabrizio (1695)
Karl Vocelka: Emperor Leopold I – Between Baroque piety and the struggle against ‘those of other faiths’
Tuesday, 9 November 2021, Neuer Konzertsaal, Rennweg 8, 1030 Vienna
18:00 Herbert Seifert: Carlo Agostino Badia, first imperial court composer, and a name-day serenade for a member of the high nobility (concert introduction)
19:00 ‘Il Sole, la Fenice, il tempo & la Fama’ (1699) – concert featuring cantatas by C.A. Badia
Students of the Institute for Early Music & guests
Céline Frisch: musical director & harpsichord
Wednesday, 10 November 2021, Festsaal Seilerstätte, Seilerstätte 26, 1010 Vienna
09:00 – 09:45 Maria Helfgott: Performance conditions for liturgical music at the Viennese court in the 17th century
10:00 – 12:30 Workshops (vocals & harpsichord): M. C. Kiehr, M. Hasibeder, E. Traxler
14:00 – 17:00 Workshops (vocals & harpsichord): M. C. Kiehr, M. Hasibeder, E. Traxler
Wednesday, 10 November 2021, Hofburg Chapel, Schweizerhof in the Hofburg, 1010 Vienna
18:00 Georg Scheibelreiter: Introductory lecture on St Leopold (concert introduction)
19:00 ‘Leopoldi-Vesper’ – Concert featuring vespers music by Emperor Leopold I, J.H. Schmelzer and F.T. Richter
Students of the Institute for Early Music & guests
Choral ensemble of the Hofburgkapelle
Musical director: Johannes Weiss
Thursday, 11 November 2021, Festsaal Seilerstätte, Seilerstätte 26, 1010 Vienna
09:00 – 10:00 Workshops (harpsichord): M. Hasibeder, E. Traxler
10:00 – 11:15 Alfons Huber, Albrecht Czernin: A Viennese harpsichord from around 1660: an organological approach
11.30 – 12.30 Workshops (harpsichord): M. Hasibeder, E. Traxler
14.00 – 14.45 Alexander Flor: ‘a host of new-fangled abuses and errors’ – Old and new perspectives on P. Tosi’s singing manual Opinioni de’ cantori antichi e moderni
15:00 – 17:00 Workshops (harpsichord): M. Hasibeder, E. Traxler
Thursday, 11 November 2021, Alter Konzertsaal, Rennweg 8, 1030 Vienna
19:00 Closing concert of the singing and harpsichord workshops featuring vocal and harpsichord music from the Viennese court under Emperor Leopold I
Students of the mdw (singing & harpsichord)
Please note the mdw’s current Covid-19 access requirements!
