The Many Faces of Camille Saint-Saëns

 

7-9 octobre 2016, Lucca
Lucca, Complesso Monumentale di San Micheletto
https://www.luigiboccherini.org/saintsaens.html

All proposals should be submitted by email no later than Sunday 3 April 2016, to <conferences -at- luigiboccherini.org>.

organized by
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini (Lucca)
Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française, Venice
The scientific committee welcome proposals that address to the themes listed below, although other, related topics are also welcome:

• «Le jeu perlé»: A New Way to Play the Piano?

• Saint-Saëns the Organist

• Saint-Saëns the Concert Virtuoso

• Saint-Saëns the Instrumental Composer

• Saint-Saëns the Vocal Composer

• Saint-Saëns Overseas: Relationships with the Orient and Africa in His Life and Works

• Saint-Saëns the Editor: The Rediscovery of Baroque Music in fin de siècle France

• Aesthetic Conflicts: Franck, Wagner, Debussy and d'Indy in the Writings of Saint-Saëns

• Saint-Saëns and Politics: His Relationship with Political Power, His Influence as a Member of the Société Nationale de Musique, and so forth.

Programme Committee: Étienne Jardin (Palazzetto Bru Zane) ; Roberto Illiano (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini); Fulvia Morabito (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini); Luca Lévi Sala (Université de Poitiers); Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald (Warwickshire, UK)

Keynote Speaker: Michael Stegemann (Technische Universität Dortmund, Institut für Musik und Musikwissenschaft), Hugh Macdonald (Washington University, St. Louis, MO)

The official languages of the conference are English, French and Italian. Papers selected at the conference will be published in a miscellaneous volume.

Papers are limited to twenty minutes in length, allowing time for questions and discussion. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words and one page of biography.

For any additional information, please contact:

Dr. Roberto Illiano
conferences -at- luigiboccherini.org
www.luigiboccherini.org