*300 years of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier*
*Torino, **21-22 June 2022*
*Biblioteca civica musicale “Andrea Della Corte”*
Call for papers
The beautifully handwritten title-page of Johann Sebastian Bach’s autograph
manuscript of the first volume of the *Well-Tempered Clavier* closes with
the date “1722”. Three centuries after the composer’s completion of the
first twenty-four Preludes and Fugues, JSBach.it - Italian Bach Society,
together with the University of Turin and the Biblioteca civica musicale
“Andrea Della Corte” invite the international scholarly community to
reflect on the multifaceted aspects of this foundational work.
The Conference will take place in Turin, in the splendid “Villa della
Tesoriera”. It is a magnificent Baroque villa surrounded by a green park.
It was built just a few years before Bach started writing the Well-Tempered
Clavier. Today it is the home of the town’s Music Library, named after
musicologist Andrea Della Corte. At the Conference’s core will be the
keynote speech given by Prof. Yo Tomita (Queen’s University Belfast).
Professor Tomita is one of the leading Bach scholars internationally. For
over thirty years the “Forty-Eight” have been one of the primary focuses of
his research.
As an ideal continuation of the International Conference “Bach and Italy”
(2020), we invite proposals for papers (15 mins.), panels, and
lecture-recitals (25 mins.) on subjects regarding the Well-Tempered Clavier.
Possible subjects include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Well-Tempered What? Issues of organology and performance practice
• How Well-Tempered? Temperament, tuning etc.
• Compositional and analytical perspectives
• The WTC and its models - The WTC as a model
• Performance history
• Creative reception: arrangements, transcriptions, works inspired by the
WTC
• The WTC between arts and media
• Role of the WTC in pedagogy, education
• Textual bibliography: critical, Urtext, instructive editions
• Philology: sources, transmission etc.
A special focus on the first volume of the WTC will be appreciated, but
proposals considering the Forty-Eight as a whole are equally welcome. The
official languages of the conference are Italian and English.
Proposal should include:
• Title of paper/lecture-recital
• Name of speaker(s) an institutional affiliation(s)
• Instrument, if needed
• A proposal consisting of an abstract (200 words max)
• Bio of speaker(s) (100 words max)
Please send the proposal by 31st March 2022 through the following link:
https://bit.ly/3qKhkwz. For information, please write to [log in to unmask] or
visit www.jsbach.it/cbt22
We wish to inform our guests that admission to the Conference will be
granted only to those provided with a “Super GreenPass” or an equivalent
document, as will be prescribed by the Italian Government at the time of
the Conference, in order to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Programme Committee: Chiara Bertoglio (Conservatory of Novara; Facoltà
Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale), Maria Borghesi (Conservatory of
Pavia; JSBach.it), Raffaele Mellace (University of Genoa; JSBach.it),
Matteo Messori (Conservatory of Genoa and Bergamo), Alberto Rizzuti
(University of Turin).
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