About this Event
Join us for a two-day conference that explores the sonic and musical cultures of Habsburg Central Europe, with a focus on transnational circulations, exchanges, and ruptures.
Consisting of present-day Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and parts of Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Croatia, and Italy, Habsburg Central Europe has been described as “a ‘laboratory’ for the pluricultural experience.” The conference examines the sonic and musical entanglements within Habsburg Central Europe and reveals the ways in which the aural can highlight unexpected contestations of citizenship, belonging, and affiliation. An inescapable presence in Europe from the late 16th through the early 20th century, the legacy of the Habsburg monarchy continues to resonate into the present day.
The conference features selected papers, a keynote address by Erika Supria Honisch titled “Celebrating Habsburgs and Misplacing Manuscripts in Guido Adler’s Musical Empire,” and a concert by Ariana Wyatt (soprano) and Richard Masters (piano).
PROGRAM DAY 1
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Introduction | Michael Haider, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, and David Catchpole, Co-organizer, Dvořák American Heritage Association/Texas State University
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Panel 1: Identity at a Distance, Chronologically and Geographically
Chair: Michael Beckerman, New York University
Marie Sumner-Lott, “The Presence of the Past, the Pastness of the Present: Nationalism and Medievalism in 19th-Century Histories of Music”
Sarah Sabol, “Was Isaac an Austrian?: The Construction of National Musical Identity in the Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich”
Catherine Mayes, “Staging Hungary at the Habsburg Court: Two Snapshots from the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century”
Andrea Orzoff, “Vienna in the Zona Rosa: Habsburg Musics in Wartime Mexico City, 1938-1945”
12:00 – 1:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:30 PM
Panel 2: Definitions and Complications of “Habsburg Austria”
Chair: David Catchpole, Dvořák American Heritage Association/Texas State University
Michael Haas, “Greater-Austria vs. German-Austria”
Leah Batstone, “‘Vienna of the East’: Musical Pluralism in Lemberg”
Timur Sijaric, “Audiovisual Representation of Habsburgs in Wien-Film and its Afterlife”
David Brodbeck, “Ruminations on the Social Identities and Self-Perceptions of Some Late Habsburg Composers”
3:30 – 4:00 PM Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:00 PM
Keynote Lecture | Erika Supria Honisch, “Celebrating Habsburgs and Misplacing Manuscripts in Guido Adler’s Musical Empire”
For more information, visit www.dvorakny.org.
This event is organized by the Dvořák American Heritage Association and supported by the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Virginia Tech, and New York University.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, New York, United States
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