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 

 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

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