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Goethe: Musical Poet. Musical Catalyst
Bewerunge Room, Department of Music, Maynooth, Co Kildare
26 and 27 April 2004
Friday 26 March 2004
8.45am: Registration
9.00am: Official Opening and Welcome
Prof. Gerard Gillen (Chair, Department of Music, NUI Maynooth)
Goethe and Beethoven
Chair: Prof. Jan Smaczny (School of Music, The Queen's University of
Belfast)
9.10am: Dr Amanda Glauert (Royal Academy of Music, London): Ich denke
dein': Beethoven's Retelling of Goethe's Poetry.
Beethoven, 'Kennst du das Land', op.75, no.1
Reichardt, 'Ich denke dein'
Beethoven/ Erk-Boehme, 'Ich denke dein'
Beethoven, Six Variations on 'Ich denke dein', woo74
Colette Boushell (soprano)
Frances Kelleher (piano)
Adele Commins (piano)
10.00am: Dr Claus Canisius (Badisches Konservatorium, Karlsruhe): Göthe
and Beethowen: Men of Genius between Distance and Affinity.
Beethoven, 'Marmotte' op.52, no.7
Beethoven, 'Mailied', op.52, no.4
Colette Boushell (soprano)
Frances Kelleher (piano)
11.00am: Coffee.
11.15am: Prof. Moray McGowan (Chair, Department of Germanic Studies,
Trinity College, Dublin): 'Fidelio' and 'Faust' in the German 'Wende'
of 1989/90.
The Music of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
College Chapel
12.15pm: Recital: Prof. Gerard Gillen (organ).
Nachspiel in D (1831)
Prelude in c (1841)
Fugue in C (1839)
Sonata in A, op.65 no.3
Sonata in B Flat, op.65 no.4
1.15pm: Lunch (Pugin Hall).
Goethe, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
Chair: Prof. Moray McGowan, Chair, Department of Germanic Studies,
Trinity College Dublin
2.30pm: Keynote Address: Prof. Nicholas Boyle (Department of German,
University of Cambridge): Thealogy: Gods, Goddesses, and Wilhelm
Meisters Lehrjahre in Goethe's Religious Development.
Goethe's Mignon
4.00pm: 'The Wondrous Child: Mignon's Story'. Dramatic Reading by Peter
Jankowsky.
5.15pm: Buffet Supper (Pugin Hall).
Schumann's Requiem für Mignon
St Mary's Church of Ireland, Maynooth
6.15pm: Dr Julian Horton: Schumann's Requiem für Mignon and the Concept
of Music as Literature.
Schumann Requiem für Mignon from Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
(op.98b)
I Soloist and Choir: 'Wen bringt ihr uns zur stillen Gesellschaft'
II Soloists (Soprano I and Alto I): 'Ach wie ungern brachten wir ihn
her'
III Soloists and Choir: 'Seht die mächtigen Flügel doch an'
IV Soloists and Choir: 'In euch lebe die bildende Kraft'
V Soloists and Choir: 'Kinder, kehret in's Leben zurück'
VI Soloists and Choir: 'Kinder! eilet in's Leben hinan'
North-South Performers: Helen Kearns (soprano), Toni Walsh (soprano),
Niamh O' Hanlon (alto), Cliodhna Mcdonogh (alto), John Malloy
(baritone)
Accompanied by Frances Kelleher.
Conducted by Colman Pearce.
7.30 pm: Coffee.
Mignon and the Harper
Bewerunge Room, Department of Music, Maynooth
8.00pm : Seoirse Bodley: Mignon and the Harper
I 'An die Türen will ich schleichen' (Harper)
II 'Heiß mich nicht reden' (Mignon)
III 'Wer nie sein Brot' (Harper)
IV 'Kennst du das Land' (Mignon)
V 'Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt' (Harper)
VI 'So laßt mich scheinen' (Mignon)
VII 'Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt' (Mignon and the Harper)
Kathleen Tynan (soprano), Sam McElroy (baritone), Dearbhla Collins
(piano).
Short pre-concert talk by the composer at 8.00pm
9.00pm: Wine Reception.
Saturday 27 March 2004
Goethe and Music
Chair: Dr Barra Boydell, Department Of Music, NUI Maynooth
9.15am: Prof. Jan Smaczny (School of Music, The Queen's University of
Belfast): Goethe and the Czechs.
Wenzel Tomaschek, 'Heidenröslein', op.53
'Mignons Sehnsucht', op.54, no.1
'Die Bekehrte', op.54, no.3
'Frühzeitiger Frühling', op.54, no.4
'Erlkönig', op.59, no.1
Una McMahon (mezzo) & Mairead Buicke (soprano)
Dearbhla Collins (piano)
10.15am: Dr Lorraine Byrne (Department of Music, NUI Maynooth): The
Goethe-Zelter Letters: Musical Implications.
Carl Friedrich Zelter, 'Wandrers Nachtlied', 'Rastlose Liebe'
Una McMahon (mezzo) & Mairead Buicke (soprano)
Dearbhla Collins (piano)
11.15am: Coffee.
Goethe and Music
Chair: Prof. Harry White, Chair, Department of Music, NUI Dublin
11.30am: Briony Williams (Royal Academy of Music): Maker, Mother, Muse:
Bettine von Arnim, Goethe and the Boundaries of Creativity.
Bettine von Arnim, 'An Luna', 'Ach neige, du Schmerzenreiche'
Una McMahon (mezzo) & Mairead Buicke (soprano)
Dearbhla Collins (piano)
12.00pm: Dr Gareth Cox (Mary Immaculate College, University of
Limerick): Blumengruss und Blumenglocken: Goethe's Influence on Anton
Webern.
Anton Webern, 'Blumengruss', 'Gleich und Gleich'
Mairead Buicke (soprano)
Dearbhla Collins (piano)
1.00pm: Lunch (Pugin Hall).
2.15pm: Recital: Schubert: Quartet for Flute, Guitar, Viola and Cello
(D96)
John Feeley (guitar), William Dowdell (flute), William Butt (cello) and
John Lynch (viola).
Schubert: 15 Original Dances for Flute or Violin and Guitar (D365)
(Bill Dowdell and John Feeley).
3.15pm Coffee.
Goethe and Music
Prof. Gerard Gillen, Chair, Department of Music, NUI Maynooth.
3.30pm: Prof. Otto Biba (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna): The
Presence of Goethe's Work in the Viennese, Austrian, Hapsburg Music
scene in the late 18th and early 19th century.
Anton Eberl, 'Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt'
Graf Moriz von Dietrichstein, 'An die Entfernte', 'Nähe des
Geliebten', 'Wandrers Nachtlied'
Nikolaus von Kruft, 'Lied aus Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahren', 'Trost in
Thränen'
Wenzel Tomaschek, 'Mignons Sehnsucht'
Carl Czerny, 'Der Erlkönig', 'Das Geheimnis', 'Des Mädchens Klage'
Una McMahon (mezzo) & Anna Devin (soprano)
Dearbhla Collins (piano)
4.30pm: Wine Reception.
Cadenza for a Conference
5.15pm: Dr. Alison Hood (Music Department, NUI Maynooth): piano
Beethoven, Bagatelles, op.119, nos.1, 3 & 4.
5.20pm: Cadenza for a Conference. Micheal O' Siadhail: Hopscotch: A
Meditation on Boundaries
7.30pm: Conference Dinner in the Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth.
Booking Information
The conference fee is €20.00 to include the costs of tea/coffee/lunch
and entrance to all concerts.
An additional cost of dinner in the Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth
(excluding wine) is €25.00.
North-South Collaboration between the Department of Music,
Maynooth, Co. Kildare and the School of Music, Queen's University
Belfast
Funded by ADM/CPA Implementing Body for the EU Programme of Peace and
Reconciliation
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