Friday, 28.06.2019
Panel I: Conceptual Approaches
Chair: Wiebke Rademacher (UNIVERSITÄT ZU KÖLN)
9:45 Competition from a Social and Cultural History Perspective – Approaches, Questions, Perspectives
Ralph Jessen (UNIVERSITÄT ZU KÖLN)
10:30 What’s Wrong with Ambition? – The Politics of Performance in Fin-de-Siècle Germany
Nina Verheyen (KULTURWISSENSCHAFTLICHES INSTITUT ESSEN)
11:15 Coffee break
11:30 Competition in the Arts. Sociological Remarks
Tobias Werron (UNIVERSITÄT BIELEFELD)
12:15 Introduction to the Database ‚Musikalische Preisausschreiben, 1820-1870‘
Carola Bebermeier, Clemens Kreutzfeldt (both UNIVERSITÄT FÜR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE KUNST WIEN), Jonas Traudes, Aleksander Marcic (both UNIVERSITÄT ZU KÖLN)
12:45 Lunch
Panel II: Institutional Forces
Chair: Andreas Domann (UNIVERSITÄT ZU KÖLN)
14:00 Competition Cultures at the World Exhibitions of the Nineteenth Century
Signe Rotter-Broman (UNIVERSITÄT DER KÜNSTE BERLIN)
14:45 Musical Competitions as Opportunities for Professionalization? Female Violinists at the Conservatory of the ‘Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde’ in Vienna
Annkatrin Babbe (SOPHIE DRINKER INSTITUT BREMEN)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 In Search of Italian Chamber Music. ‘Concorso-Basevi’ as a Promoter of National Music Culture
Carola Bebermeier (UNIVERSITÄT FÜR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE KUNST WIEN)
16:45 Catch and Glee Club Prizes in the Long Nineteenth Century: Nurturing a 'National Music'
Chris Price (CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY)
17:30 Break
20:00 Lecture concert:
Vom »Sängerkrieg« der Männerchöre – Gesprächskonzert zur Geschichte der Chorwettbewerbe im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert
Ensemble Vocapella Limburg und Christoph Müller- Oberhäuser (UNIVERSITÄT ZU KÖLN)
Saturday, 29.06.2019
Panel III: Nationalism and Civil Society
Chair: Evelyn Buyken (HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND TANZ KÖLN)
9:30 Competing for the Nation: Competition as a Driving Force of Musical Culture and Civil Society in the Long Nineteenth Century
Krisztina Lajosi-Moore (UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM)
10:15 Competing with the Entire Musical World: Ambitions, Policies, and Results in the Composition Contests of the Dutch Society for the Promotion of Music (1829-1879)
Jeroen van Gessel (RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN)
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 ’L’arte elevata al suo vero splendore’. Musical Competitions in Naples in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and the Role of the Circolo Bonamici
Lucio Tufano (UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO)
12:00 Nineteenth-Century Musical Competitions
Frank Hentschel (UNIVERSITÄT ZU KÖLN)
12:45 Lunch
Panel IV: Criticism and Legitimation
Chair: Andreas Stynen (KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN)
14:00 Musical Competitions in Antebellum New York City
Clemens Kreutzfeldt (UNIVERSITÄT FÜR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE KUNST WIEN)
14:45 Musical Societies in Roubaix in the 1890s: Refusing Musical Competition, Promoting Social Revolution
Sophie-Anne Leterrier (UNIVERSITÉ D'ARTOIS, ARRAS)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Competitions and the State as a Topic in Nineteenth-Century French Musical Press
Jonas Traudes (UNIVERSITÄT ZU KÖLN)
16:45 Final discussion