Juli
17
bis 19. Juli

International Conference | Mahler and Humour

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Conference ‘Mahler and Humour’

Gustav Mahler Research Centre Innsbruck / Toblach

17-19 July 2025

Full programme

Organisers: Anna Stoll Knecht and Alice Verti

Conference committee: Anna Stoll Knecht (University of Fribourg), Alice Verti (University of Innsbruck), Morten Solvik (Mahler Foundation), Lóránt Péteri (Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music)


17 July

9:00-9:15                   Anna Stoll Knecht and Alice Verti: Welcome     

Keynote 1

9:15-10:15                 Christine Lubkoll-Klotz (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

Nachahmung – Kontrastierung – Travestie. Lachtheoretische Vorüberlegungen zum Humor

Coffee break

 

Session 1: Musical Humour and Literary Theories  

10:30-11:15               Christian Glanz (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna)

Mahler’s ‘Humoreske’ in the context of ‘Menippean’ satire

11:15-12:00               Renate Stark-Voit (International Gustav Mahler Society)

„Spielarten” des Mahlerschen Humors: eine vorwiegend sprachliche und literarische Spurensuche

 

Lunch break

 

Session 2: The Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Symphonies: Of Irony and Animals

13:30-14.15                Alice Verti (University of Innsbruck)

‘Vorwiegend heiteren Charakters’, ‘humoristischen Inhalts’: the peculiar irony of the Seventh Symphony

14:15-15:00                Julian Caskel (Folkwang University of the Arts)

The theory and analysis of metrical consonances and dissonances: A humorous Mahlerian update

                                                          

Coffee break

 

15:15-16:00               Thomas Peattie (University of Mississippi)

‘What the Animals in the Zoo Tell Me’: Mahler’s Domesticated Nature

16:00-16:45               Nicolas Waldvogel (University of the Pacific)

Mahler, Cuckoos and Donkeys

18 July

Keynote 2

9:00-10:00                 Federico Celestini (University of Innsbruck)

From Haydn to Mahler and back again. The ‘unshackled masters’ of musical humour

 

Session 3: Novelistic and poetic Humour in Mahler’s compositional thought

10:00-10:45               Jeremy Barham (University of Surrey)

‘First as Tragedy, then as Farce’: Mahler’s Sternean Punchlines

 

Coffee break

 

11:00-11:45               Brent Wetters (Clark University)

Nobody Expects the Comically-Large Hammer: Mahler, Hardy, and the Unintentionally Humorous                                             

11:45-12:30               He Jie (Wuhan Conservatory of Music)

Comparison of Mahler’s Irony in Das Lied von der Erde and Poets’ Ironies in Corresponding Ancient Chinese Poems

 

Lunch break

 

Session 4: Irony and Caricature in Form and Reception

14:15-15:00               Oana Andreica (Gheorghe Dima National Academy of Music)

‘Humour’ Censored? On Mahler’s Reception in Communist Romania

15:00-15:45               Milijana Pavlović (University of Innsbruck)

Funny, but to whom? The musical othering of Jews and its long shadow over the Mahler reception

 

Coffee break

 

16:00-16:45               Mike Mitchell (Durham University)

Formal Characters and Caricatures in the Opening of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony

16:45-17:30               Justin Gregg (Columbia University)

Caricatures of the Concertgebouw: Satirical Cartoons on the 1920 Amsterdam Mahler Festival

 

July 19

 

Session 5: Facets of humour in the Wunderhorn symphonies

9:00-9:45                   Morten Solvik (Mahler Foundation)

Mahler’s ‘Humorous’ Third Symphony

9:45-10:30                 Eric Smialek (University of Huddersfield)

Orchestrating the ‘Inverted Sublime’: Contrasting Settings of Humour in Mahler’s Wunderhorn Symphonies

 

Coffee break

 

10:45-11:30               Maho Naito (University of Bonn)

Strategien der Verfremdung in der Ersten Symphonie Mahlers

11:30-12:15               Lóránt Peteri (Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music)

Nostalgia and Humour – Musico-Cinematic Intertextuality in István Szabó’s Father

 

Concluding thoughts – end of conference

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Juli
18
bis 16. Dez.

Gustav Mahler’s Sound: Between Creative Process, Performance, and Reception

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Symposium Chairs
Tobias Janz (University of Bonn)
Christian Utz (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz)

The sound of Gustav Mahler’s music – its idiosyncratic “tone” – is unmistakable. In chamber music song settings or in the large orchestra (expanded by choir and soloists), whether on disc or in the concert, this tone evokes the period of its creation: the fin de siècle, Viennese modernism, and their social fault lines. This sound also opens a wealth of music-historical, music-analytical, intertextual, and cultural dimensions, which are complexified due to their multitudinous interwoven aspects. A multi-perspective approach seems necessary if one wants to better understand a phenomenon that is located in a characteristic way between composition, performance, and interpretation as well as listening reception. The aim of this international symposium is to bring research perspectives engaged with Mahler’s sound into dialogue and at the same time to develop new approaches to analysis and historical and cultural-scientific interpretation. Four sections focus on the areas of Sound Analysis, Sources and the Creative Process, Performance Practice and Performance History, and Mediatized Sound.

The symposium is a cooperation between the Gustav Mahler Research Centre, founded in 2020, and the Graz research project “Multiple Dimensions in Performances of Mahler’s Symphonies” (https://institut1.kug.ac.at/en/mahler), funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF.

Donnerstag 18. Juli 2024

9.00 Keynote 1 Karol Berger (Stanford University): Mahler: The Semantics of Sound

10.00 Kaffeepause

Sektion 1: Klanganalyse (Chair: Tobias Janz, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

10.30 Tobias Janz: Analyzing Mahler’s Sound. Thoughts on the Sixth Symphony and Kindertotenlieder

11.00 Emily Dolan (Brown University): The Mahlerian Shape of Timbre Studies

11.30 Diskussion

12.00 Mittagspause

13.30  Jack Adler-McKean (Lunds Universitet): ‘If the tubist cannot produce this tone in pianissimo, it is to be taken over by the contrabassoon’. The Tuba in the Orchestra of Gustav Mahler

14.00 Klaus Aringer (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz): Chorische Hornbehandlung in Mahlers Orchester

14.30 Dimitrios Katharopoulos (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz): Processes and Topics in Gustav Mahler’s Orchestration. The First Movement of the   Second Symphony as a Case Study

15.00 Diskussion

15.30 Kaffeepause

16.00 Fredrica Roos (Uppsala Universitet): Scoring the World: The Musical Imagery of Mahler’s Orchestration

16.30 Sam Reenan (Miami University): Queering Mahler’s Orchestration

17.00 Federico Celestini (Universität Innsbruck): Mahlers ‘undomestizierte’ Klänge

17.30 Diskussion

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18.00 Konzert (Gustav-Mahler-Saal): Bartók, Chopin, Schostakowitsch (Ensemble Esperanza)   

Freitag, 19. Juli 2024

9.00 Keynote 2 Anne Holzmüller (Philipps Universität Marburg): Mahler, der Zeitgemäße. Mahlers Klang im Spiegel gegenwärtiger Hörästhetiken

10.00 Kaffeepause

Sektion 2: Quellen und Schaffensprozess(Chair: Anna Ficarella, Conservatorio di Musica G. B. Pergolesi, Fermo)

10.30 Nikolaus Urbanek (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien): Philologie des Klangs

11.00 Anna Ficarella: Klang in Mahlers Werkstatt. Versuch einer critique génétique am Beispiel der Fünften Symphonie

11.30   Diskussion

12.00 Peter Revers (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz): „Eine Chorsymphonie großartigen Stiles“. Zur Behandlung der Chöre in Gustav Mahlers Sinfonien

12.30   Diskussion

12.45 Mittagspause

Sektion 3: Mediatisierter Klang (Chair: Jeremy Barham, University of Surrey)

14.15 Jeremy Barham (University of Surrey): ‘Surface Noise’: The Radical Depthlessness of Mahler (Re-)Mediatization

14.45 Minoru Shimizu (Doshisha University Kyoto): Mahler und die audiophile Kultur

15.15 Diskussion

15.45 Kaffeepause

16.15 Edwin K. C. Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong): Languaging as Sonic Mediatization: Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in Mandarin and Cantonese

16.45 Robert Samuels (The Open University): Mahler’s Sound in Benjamin Britten’s Ears

17.15 Diskussion

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18.00 Konzert (Gustav-Mahler-Saal): Gustav Mahler, Sechste Symphonie (Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Michael Sanderling)

Samstag, 20. Juli 2024

Sektion 4: Interpretationspraxis und Interpretationsgeschichte(Chair: Christian Utz, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz)

9.00 Christian Utz: Perspektiven der Korpusforschung auf die Interpretationsgeschichte von Mahlers Siebter und Zehnter Symphonie

9.30 Julian Caskel (Folkwang Universität der Künste): Zur Differenzierung der dynamischen Vorschriften in Scherzosätzen von Gustav Mahler

10.00 Diskussion

10.30 Kaffeepause

11.00 Anna Stoll Knecht (University of Fribourg): To ‘Sing’ (in Vienna) or ‘Not to Sing’ (in Bayreuth): Performance Practice c. 1900

11.30 Lóránt Péteri (Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music): ‘Mr. Mahler at the Harpsichord’: Mahler’s ‘Bach Suite’ and its Performances in the US

12.00 Diskussion

12.30 Podiumsdiskussion: Mahler interpretieren, Mahler-Interpretationen interpretieren (Hermann Danuser, Peter Revers, Anna Stoll Knecht, Sybille Werner; Leitung: Tobias Janz und Christian Utz)

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International Conference | (Re)mediating Mahler
Sep.
15
bis 16. Sep.

International Conference | (Re)mediating Mahler

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Friday 15 September

10:45 Welcome

Milijana Pavlović, Jeremy Barham and Alessandro Cecchi

 

11.00–12.00

Keynote presentation, Emile Wennekes:

“Being Composed first, then Being Screened: Remediating Mahler”

 

12:00-13:00

Screening of Mahler. The Echo of Being (‘symphonic cinema’ by Lucas van Woerkum, 2020)

 

Lunch

 

14.30–16.30

Paper session 1: The Screen (i): from the Beginnings to Visconti

 

Julie Brown “Mahler-Lichtbildkonzert: An Early Screen Mediation of the Composer in Context”

Laurence Carr “A Song of Two Humans (Murnau and Riesenfeld): An Exploration of Sound and Music in Sunrise (1927)”

Maria Fuchs “The Persistence of Romantic Landscape: from Mahler to the Politics of Nature in the Heimat Genre”

Giorgio Biancorosso “Mahler and Free Indirect Style in Death in Venice (Visconti, 1971)”

 

Refreshments

 

17.30–19.00

Presentation: Johannes Deutsch, ‘Vision Mahler’

 

Saturday 16 September

 

10.00–12.00

Paper session 2: Dramatizing and Visualizing on Stage, Canvas, and Page 

 

Emilio Sala “The ‘Haunting Melody’ and Castellucci’s Staging of Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony”

Eftychia Papanikolaou “Mediating the Pan-Erotic: John Neumeier’s Choreography of Mahler’s Third Symphony”

Martina Pippal “Symbolism as an Underestimated Meta Phenomenon: Gustav Mahler and the Visual Media of His Time”

Jeremy Barham “Making a Song and Dance about Mahler: Dramatizations and Novelizations”

 

Lunch

14.30–16.30

Paper session 3: The Screen (ii): Beyond Visconti

 

Maurizio Corbella “(Un)crediting Mahler: Adaptation, Allusion, Reinvention in Italian Film Music Beyond Visconti”

Carlo Cenciarelli “Distant Music and Jarmusch’s Mahler”

Alessandro Cecchi “Fake Mimesis as Symptom and Strategy: Mahler’s Piano Quartet in Shutter Island (Scorsese, 2010)”

Julie Hubbert “‘Vergessen Sie Visconti’: Mahler, Music, and Auteurism in Tár”

 

Concluding remarks

 

Refreshments

 

17.30–19.30

Performance: Uri Caine, Improvising a Live Mahler Score to Murnau’s Sunrise 

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International Conference | Nature in Musical Modernism Since Mahler
Juli
23
bis 24. Juli

International Conference | Nature in Musical Modernism Since Mahler

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 23 JULY

 

10:00 Welcome

 

10:15 Milijana Pavlović (Univ. Innsbruck): “The Nature of Nature in the First Movement of Mahler’s Third”

11:00 Angelo Pinto (Gustav Mahler Research Centre, Univ. Innsbruck): “Schopenhauer’s and Wagner’s Anti-Anthropocentrism in Mahler’s Third and Today’s Environmentalist Thought”

 

10:45 Coffee break

 

11:00 Carlo Serra (Univ. of Calabria): “Form and emergence in the Development of The First Movement of Mahler's First Symphony”

 

12:30 Lunch break

 

15:00 Marcus Zagorski (Comenius Univ. of Bratislava): “Stockhausen’s Nature, Ecology, and a Nod to Mahler’s Third

15:45 Julian Johnson (Univ. Royal Holloway, Univ. of London): “The (Un)Natural Horn: from Mahler to Haas”

 

16:45 End of the first conference day

 

24 JULY

 

09:30 Thomas Peattie (Univ. of Mississippi): “‘…Music’s Time Is the Time of the Trees…’: Schubert-Mahler-Berio and the Sound of Nature”.

10:15 Sherry Lee (Univ. of Toronto): “Adorno’s Mahler and Modernist Music ‘After Nature”

 

11:00 Coffee break

 

11:15 Mathieu Schneider (Univ. of Strasbourg): “‘… Sicut in Caelo et in Terra…’.
 Essay on the Disenchantment of Nature in 20th Century Musical Theater”

12:00 Daniel Grimley (Univ. of Oxford): “‘Auf den Bergen’: Delius, Nietzsche and the Numinous”

 

12: 45 Lunch break

 

14:30 Raffaele Pozzi (Univ. of Rome 3): “Cosmic Vision and ‘Sound of Nature.’ Mahler Shadows in the Monumental Dimension of Olivier Messiaen Symphonism”

15:15 Paolo Somigli (Univ. of Bozen): “Naturläute” in Salvatore Sciarrino’s music between environmental evocation and listeners’ inner dramaturgy

 

18:00 Film screening: RIAFN by Hannes Lang. Round Table with Angelo Pinto, Milijana Pavlović, Julian Johnson, Hannes Lang, Stefan Hakenberg and the young composers of the Project Young Composers and Gustav Mahler in Toblach/Dobbiaco

Concept: Angelo Pinto

Organisation: Angelo Pinto, Federico Celestini, Milijana Pavlović

The conference originates from the Gustav Mahler Research Centre 'Music and Nature’ Study Group

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International Conference | The Compositional Reception of Gustav Mahler (Kopie)
Juli
15
bis 16. Juli

International Conference | The Compositional Reception of Gustav Mahler (Kopie)

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15 July

9:00 Welcome

9:15 Antony Beaumont (Zemlinsky Centre): “Gustav Mahler and Alexander Zemlinsky: Giving, Taking, Sharing”

10:00 Federico Celestini (Univ. Innsbruck): “Mahler, Schoenberg, and Viennese Church Bells”

10:45 coffee break

11:00 Julian Johnson (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London): “From the Sublime to the Meticulous: Mahler and Webern”

12:15 Minari Bochmann (Univ. of Leipzig): “The Reception of Gustav Mahler in the Japanese Press until 1945”

12:30 lunch break

14:30 Dorothea Redepenning (Univ. Heidelberg): “On Mahler’s significance for Shostakovich (new aspects)“

15:15 Matthew Mugmon (Univ. of Arizona): “Transatlantic Resonances: Mahler and the Music of American Composers”

16:00 Stephen Downes (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London): “Eclectic Affinities: Mahler, Britten and Henze”

16:45 End of the first conference day

16 July

10:00 Seth Brodsky (Univ. of Chicago): “ ‘… to die in its own particular way’: Ending Mahler in Postwar Germany”

10:45 Thomas Peattie (Univ. of Mississippi): “Music about Music: Luciano Berio’s Mahler”

11:30 Lóránt Péteri (Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest): “Ligeti’s Mahler, Ligeti’s Kakania”

12:15 Lunch break

15:00 Round Table with Stefan Hakenberg, Milijana Pavlović, Thomas Peattie, Lóránt Péteri, Sybille Werner and the young composers

Concept and Organisation:

Federico Celestini, Milijana Pavlović, Thomas Peattie and Lóránt Péteri

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