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”

11:45 coffee break

12:00 Carlo Serra (Univ. of Calabria): “Form and Emergence in the Development of the First Movement of Mahler's First Symphony”

12:45 lunch break

15:00 Marcus Zagorski (Comenius Univ. of Bratislava): “Stockhausen's Nature, Deep 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”

16:30 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’s 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 (https://mahler-centre.net/musik-and-nature)