Below is the program of the Liszt conference as it now stands.
Utrecht Liszt Conference Program
Friday, 1 April 2011 Domkerk, Domplein
(19:45 Church open) 20:15 Welcome Address
20:30 Prelude Jan Jansen, organ: Franz Liszt, Präludium und Fuge über den Namen BACH, S260
20:45 Keynote Address Alan Walker, ‘Liszt as the Cultural Ambassador of the 19th century’
21:30 Recital Jan Jansen, organ: Liszt, Fantasie und Fuge über den Choral ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’, S259
22:00 Reception
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Saturday, 2 April Academiegebouw, Domplein
9:00-9:30 Registration and Coffee
9:30-10:15 Keynote Address Michael Saffle (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg), ‘Collecting Liszt(iana)’
10:15-11:45 Panel One: Reception and Dissemination
Chair: Michael Saffle
-John C. Tibbetts (University of Kansas), ‘Liszt the cinematic vagabond’
-Mariateressa Storino (Conservatory of Music ‘Luca Marenzio’, Brescia), ‘Analysis of Concerto #2: From the Manuscript Sources to the Published Scores’
-Malou Haine (Université Libre de Bruxelles), ‘Franz Liszt and Marie de Hohenlohe-Schilingsfürst’
11:45-13:15 Panel Two: Painting and poetry
Chair: Emile Wennekes
-Anno Mungen (Universität Bayreuth), ‘Performance and Theatricality: Josef Danhauser’s Liszt at the piano’
-Andrew Haringer (Columbia University, New York), ‘Liszt, Lamartine, and 1835’s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses’
-Kenneth DeLong (University of Calgary), ‘From Malerei to Empfindung: Program and Expression in Liszt’s “Sposalizio”’
13:15-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:45 Panel Three: Biographical Details
Chair: James Deaville
-Christo Lelie (Trouw, Piano Bulletin), ‘Liszt’s birthday celebrations at the Altenburg, 1854-1860’
-Evangelia Mitsopoulou (Music High School of Thessaloniki), ‘T. Forchhammer, A. Hahn, C. Tausig, A. Stradal and J. Végh: their contribution to the diffusion of Liszt’s Dante Symphony’
-Gert Nieveld (), ‘Caroline de Saint-Cricq: Serèno al cò de glas’
15:45-16:00 Intermezzo Leslie Howard, piano: Franz Liszt, Faribolo Pastour, S236/1 16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-17:15 Lecture Recital One Leslie Howard
-Liszt, Variations on the motif of J S Bach: ‘Weinen, Klagen’, S180
-Liszt, Sarabande and Chaconne on themes from Handel’s Singspiel ‘Almira’, S181
17:30-19:00 Conference Dinner
20:15-22:15 Concert Liszt Competition Semi Finals One Vredenburg, Leidsche Rijn (bus transportation available for conference participants)
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Sunday, 3 April Academiegebouw, Domplein
9:30-10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00-11:30 Panel Four: A European Musician
Chair: Zsuzsanna Domokos
-Antonio Simón (Universidad de Málaga), ‘Interpreting Liszt’s Iberian tour’
-Evren Kutlay Baydar (Koc University, Sariyer/Istanbul), ‘Franz Liszt’s ‘Turkish’ pupils and their contribution to the development of Western music in the Ottoman Empire’
-James Deaville (Carleton University, Ottawa), ‘Franz Liszt and Franz Brendel: Playing the Field of Cultural Production in Mid-Century Germany’
11:30-12:00 Coffee
12:00-12:45 Keynote Address Serge Gut, ‘Liszt’s Influence on the Piano Music of Claude Debussy’
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:15 Panel Five: Translation, Transcription, Transition
Chair: Karl Kügle
-Rian de Waal (Royal Conservatory, The Hague), ‘Liszt at the piano and Walter Benjamin’s concept of pure language’
-Alexander Stefaniak (Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York), ‘Liszt’s Cantata Paraphrase: Reinterpreting Genre and Narrative in the Weinen, Klagen Variations’
-Harrison Gradwell Slater (Boston), ‘Liszt and the Vocal Nocturne’
15:15-15:45 Coffee
15:45-16:30 Lecture Recital Two Albert Brussee, ‘Discoveries and Mysteries from Sketchbook N6 of Franz Liszt’
16:30-17:00 Closing Roundtable Discussion