Having been largely forgotten by all but archival specialists for more than a hundred years, Johann Baptist Wanhal has recently come to be regarded as perhaps being the finest composer of symphonies in Haydn and Mozart’s Vienna that has yet to be made a part of the canon. This rise in reputation is evident when comparing old and new literature on the Classic symphony: whereas Hermann Kretzschmar could only mention Wanhal’s name in his venerable Führer durch den Konzertsaal (final, sixth edition 1921), Matthew Riley dedicated two full chapters to Wanhal in the monograph The Viennese Minor-Key Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Mozart (2014).
The lack of a satisfactory scholarly catalogue outside of the symphony remains a challenge for Wanhal scholarship. A conference is to be held at Uppsala University in the event of the first official publication of the Catalogus novus Wanhali (www.wanhal.info), which in time purports to fill this gap. At the time of release, it will include an updated version of Paul Bryan’s catalogue of Wanhal’s symphonies, as well as newly made entries for masses, requiems, litanies and Marian antiphons, with plans to extend this to all genres within a decade. The digital nature of the catalogue will allow for periodic updates, thus avoiding the obsolescence of paper catalogues.
For this conference, we welcome papers on matters pertaining to Wanhal and his times, including but not limited to the following:
• Studies of prints and manuscripts
• Performance practice
• Work interpretation and hermeneutics
• Biographical studies
• Reception and historiography
• Composition in marginalised genres
• Modern challenges for eighteenth-century music bibliography, music cataloguing and/or music publishing
In addition to papers that deal primarily with Wanhal, we may also consider papers that challenge the Groβmeister-focused conception of Viennese and Austro-Bohemian music during Wanhal’s lifetime.
A conference book is planned for publication through Uppsala University Publications.
Conference location: Uppsala, Sweden
Conference dates: 6-7 July 2024
Conference languages: English and German
Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to Halvor K. Hosar ([log in to unmask]) no later than 15 November 2023. Accepted submitters will be contacted by 15 January 2024.
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