Thursday, 12 October

Welcome and Introduction
9:30 Welcome: Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl
9:45 Introduction: More Than Just Music: The Rich Combination of the Arts in Schubert’s Vienna: Christopher Gibbs

Morning Session: Ballrooms, Salons and Theaters
Chair: Thomas Seedorf

10:00 Erica Buurman: The Multimedia Ballroom in Schubert’s Vienna
10:45 Coffee
11:15 Nancy November / Imogen Morris: Why Were Music Theatrical Soirées and Salons So Popular in Schubert’s Vienna?
12:00 Mary Riggs / Robert Riggs: Multimedia Performances in the Kärntnertortheater

Afternoon Program
15:45 Guided tour through the historical Theater in der Josefstadt
Theater in der Josefstadt, Josefstädter Straße 24

Evening

19:00 Lebenstänze – Lebensstürme. Eine „musikalisch-deklamatorisch-tanzalische Abendunterhaltung”
Musik von Franz Schubert

Friday, 13 October
Morning Session: Visualized Body Gestures and Literary Soundscapes
Chair: Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl

9:30 Bettina Brandl-Risi: Blurring the Poses of Representation – In-Betweenness in Tableau Vivant Performances
10:15 Emily Eubanks: The Soundscape of Austrian Patriotism: Ferdinand II in Karoline Pichler’s Salon
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Margit Legler: The Physical Eloquence of Schubert’s Time (Performance Lecture)

Afternoon Session: Lied and Melodrama
Chair: Franz Fillafer

14:00 Cheston Humphries: Genre Conventions in the Early German Lied and the Declamatory Tradition
14:45 Louis De Nil: Singing Schubert’s Erlkönig Dramatically in Vienna’s Vormärz Period
15:30 Coffee

16:00 Panel: Multimediality at the Viennese Court – Ambigu (1815)
- Werner Telesko: The Viennese Court as a Place of Multimedia Practices in the Early 19th Century
- Alfred Noe: The Dramatic Elements in the Ambigu at the Viennese Court in 1815. A Five-Flavour Pièce Montée
- Livio Marcaletti: Melodrame, Comic Ensemble Pieces and Dances: How Music Blends with the Arts in the 1815 Ambigu

Saturday, 14 October
Morning Session: Ballet, Opera and Orchestral Works
Chair: Livio Marcaletti

9:30 Joan Grimalt: Beethoven’s Multimedia Prometheus Myth, 1801–2023. Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus op. 43, Between Rhetorical Music, Pantomime, and Stage Performance
10:15 Kirby E. Haugland: Staging an Effective Revolution: Lodoïska in Habsburg Europe
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Christine Fischer: Tableau Vivant and Symphonic Music? An Attempt to Approach Figurative Associations in Schubert’s Orchestral Works
12:15 Summary, Desiderata and Farewell