29–31 October 2025, Belgrade, Serbia
Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
International Conference
Institute of Musicology and Department of Arts of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts are organizing a conference dedicated to symphonic music after 1945, to be held in Belgrade, 29–31 October 2025.
Throughout the XX century, symphonic music has gone through radical transformations, form monumental symphonies by Gustav Mahler, to minute symphonies (/Symphonies de chambre/) of Darius Milhaud; from a compulsory genre in the opuses of older generations of composers, to its almost complete disappearance in the opuses of avant-garde composers of the second half of the XX century. Symphonic music was also shaped under different ideological spheres. On one hand, in countries with a socialist social system, the cult of symphonic music was nurtured as the music of the “new society”; on the other hand, in Western Europe, symphonic composers remained in the shadow of avant-garde currents after World War II.
Researchers are invited to present their current research on development of post 1945 symphonic genre in general: symphony, symphonic suite, symphonic suite from ballet, opera, theatre and film, symphonic poem, etc. including, but not limited to the following topics:
Composers of symphonic music after 1945 (biographical, historiographical, music-theoretical approaches);
Sociological aspects of the development of the symphonic music after 1945;
Reception of symphonic music after 1945;
Poietic and autopoietic discourses on symphonic music after 1945;
Symphonic music after 1945 on concert stages, festivals, reviews, and the like;
Applied symphonic music after 1945 (theatre, film, television, cultural manifestations, etc.).
Plenary speakers are Professor Michael Custodis, Director of the Institute of Musicology at the University of Münster, Germany, who will speak about German symphonic music after 1945, and Professor Pauline Fairclough from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, who will give a lecture on the symphonic works of Dmitri Shostakovich on the occasion of 50^th anniversary of his passing.
Official language of the conference is English.
Please send your proposals (title, abstract up to 250 words, keywords).
Deadline for proposals: 15 May 2025.
N. B. We are drawing your attention to a coordinated conference organised by Ákos Windhager, PhD, from the Institute of Art Theory and Methodology, Hungarian Academy of Arts, which will take place on 18 November 2025, titled*/Symphonic Music in the Globalised World: Reinterpreting the Symphonic Tradition in the 21st Century. Call for papers, venue of the conference and other information are TBA. A joint publication of selected papers presented at the conferences is planned.
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