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Symposium Kylwiria and Other Explorations

An International Musicological Conference on György Ligeti’s Centenary

Vienna & Budapest, 10–13 May 2023

Organized by the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies of the University of Music and Performing Arts (Vienna) and the Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities (Budapest) in collaboration with the Hungarian Musicological Society and the Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel)

Venue in Vienna: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna – mdw, Joseph-Haydn-Saal, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, A-1030 Wien

Venue in Budapest: RCH Institute for Musicology, Bartók Hall, Táncsics Mihály utca 7, H-1014 Budapest

Download program brochure (with abstracts and bios)

Online participation (passive) in the symposium is possible. After registration at the address musikwissenschaft[at]mdw.ac.at by May 8, 2023 at the latest, you will receive the participation link.

Full concert programs (concerts will not be available via Zoom)

Program:

Wednesday, 10 May 2023 | Vienna

17:00	Welcome Johannes Meissl \| Vice Rector of the mdw Julia Heimerdinger \| Member of the program committee
17:30	Keynote: “But maybe my insecure and wandering life served my development as a composer better”: Ligeti’s Autobiographies Paul Griffiths
18:30	Break
19:00	Concert (all works by György Ligeti) Kineret (1941) \| Michaela Resch (soprano), Yuumi Yamaguchi (piano) Petőfi bordala (Petőfis drinking song) (1950) \| Michaela Resch, Yuumi Yamaguchi String Quartet No. 1. Métamorphoses nocturnes (1953/54) \| Rubik Quartett Der Sommer (Friedrich Hölderlin) (1989) \| Michaela Resch, Yuumi Yamaguchi Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (1982) \| Paolo Vuono (violin), Nikitaris Panagiotis (piano), Jason Pfiester (horn) Mysteries of the Macabre (1988) \| Misaki Morino (soprano), Yuto Kiguchi (piano)
20:00	Reception

Thursday, 11 May 2023 | Vienna

09:30	Reports and Conjectures about Kylwiria Heidy Zimmermann \| Paul Sacher Foundation Basel
10:15	“Breughelland”: Subverting the Antinomy of Utopia and Dystopia Andreas Dorschel \| University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
11:00	Coffee break
11:30	Utopias and Their Discontents: Ligeti’s Reception History as Modernist Meta-Narrative Amy Bauer \| University of California, Irvine
12:15	*Music, Magic, and Migration: Ligeti’s Síppal, dobbal* as Sonic Healing** Joseph Cadagin \| New Europe College Bucharest
12:45	Lunch break
14:30	Freedom and Originality: Are My Father’s Principal Values Still Viable for a Composer Today? Lukas Ligeti
15:30	Coffee break
16:00	*Ligeti’s Lux Aeterna* from a Theoretical and Practical Perspective** Workshop with the vocal ensemble Company of Music, Lukas Haselböck & Johannes Hiemetsberger (both University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)
17:00	Break
18:00	Concert (all works by György Ligeti) Continuum for Harpsichord (1968) \| Piibe Talen Hungarian Rock. Chaconne for Harpsichord (1978) \| Rui Cai Passacaglia ungherese for Harpsichord (1978) \| Arthur Jeszenszky Monument · Selbstporträt · Bewegung. Three Pieces for two Pianos (1976) \| Yuhuan Wang & Shiori Yoshino Sonata for Viola Solo (1991–94) \| Nikita Gerkusov

Friday, 12 May 2023 | Budapest

14:00	Welcome Pál Richter \| Director of Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities
14:15	The Widow in the Old House or The Elevator is Out of Order Péter Laki \| Bard College Berlin
15:00	Deconstructed Time, Organised Chaos. Ligeti’s Musical Gamble with Clocks and Clouds Bianca Temes \| “Gh. Dima” National Music Academy Cluj-Napoca
15:30	Clocks and Clouds – Technic or Phantasm, Tradition or Futuristic Utopia? Maria Kostakeva
16:00	Internal Soundscapes. Transformations of Environmental Sounds in Ligeti’s Musical Analyses Ewa Schreiber \| Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
16:30	Exhibition \| Guided tour: Ligeti-Labyrinth. An Exhibition Celebrating the Centenary of György Ligeti’s Birth Museum of Music History (Táncsics Mihály utca 7, H-1014 Budapest)
18:00	Concert: Piano recital with László Borbély Musica Ricercata: Nos. 5., 9., 7., 8., 10., 11; Études pour piano, vol. 1: 1–6

Saturday, 13 May 2023 | Budapest

09:30	Ligeti and Artistic Research Wolfgang Marx \| University College Dublin
10:15	The Hybrid Musical Landscape of Ligeti’s Late Concertos Benjamin R. Levy \| University of California, Santa Barbara
11:00	Coffee break
11:30	Ligeti’s Mahler Lóránt Péteri \| Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest
12:00	“Some Sort of Machine Without a Body”: György Ligeti and Antoinette Vischer Explore the Modern Harpsichord Elisabeth Reisinger \| University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
12:30	Lunch break
14:30	Weöres/Ligeti – a Creative Affinity? Márton Kerékfy \| Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest
15:15	Exploring Polyrhythms: Reflections on Ligeti's Études pour piano Tobias Bleek \| Folkwang University of the Arts Essen
16:00	Coffee break
16:30	Ligeti’s Jottings and Musical Meaning: Two Ways In James Donaldson \| Magdalen College, University of Oxford
17:15	Concluding discussion
18:00	Chamber Concert

Program committee: Anna Dalos, Julia Heimerdinger, Márton Kerékfy, Heidy Zimmermann