Rediscovering Wanhal - Wanhal rediscovered
Having been largely forgotten by all but archival specialists for more than a hundred years, Johann Baptist Waṅhal 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. The lack of a satisfactory scholarly catalogue outside of the symphony remains a challenge for Waṅhal scholarship. This conference is to be held in the event of the first official publication of the Catalogus novus Wanhali (www.wanhal.info), which in time purports to fill this gap. In addition to papers that deal primarily with Wanhal, the conference also contains papers that challenge the Groβmeister-focused conception of Viennese and Austro-Bohemian music during Waṅhal’s lifetime.
The conference is open to the public. Prospective visitors are encouraged to write halvor.hosar@musik.uu.se to announce their participation.
Dates: 6-7 July 2024
Place: Uppsala University, Department of Musicology, Chemicum building, Thunbergsvägen 3H, room 2-0047 (F2)
Programme July, 6
10.15-10.25 Halvor K. Hosar: Welcome speech
Session 1: Reassessing Wanhal's Keyboard Production
10.30-10.55 Sam Girling: Unmasking the Batteries: Wanhal's Musical Depictions of Battles on Land and at Sea
11.00-11.25 Eva-Maria de Oliveira Pinto: Tagesproduktion oder geschichtwahrendes Denkmal? J.B. Vanhals programmatische Schlachtenmusiken für Pianoforte
11.30-11.55 Jana Michálková Slimačková: The Organ Pieces by Johann Baptist Wanhal in the Context of Organ Music in Central Europe
12.00-13.00 LUNCH
Keynote lecture:
13.05-13.50 Allan Badley: From the Known to the Unknown: Wanhal, Authenticity and the Uncertainty Principle
Session 2: Contemporaries of Wanhal
14.00-14.25 Tomasz Fatalski: Between the Sacred and the Profane: Exploring Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's Sacred Music
14.30-14.55 Lise Karin Meling: The Public Privacy and the Woman Performer-Composer in England at the End of the 18th Century
15.00-15.25 Darija Andzakovic: Whose 'pianiss:' is this? An Anonymous Concerto per il Violone identified
19.00-21.00 CONFERENCE DINNER
Programme July, 7
10.15-10.25 Allan Badley: Opening speech
Session 3: Receptions Old and New
10.30-10.55 Karina Zybina: By trial and error: Rediscovering Wanhal's Offertorium from the Autograph
11.00-11.25 Halvor K. Hosar: Pergolesian Roots in Wanhal's Stabat Mater
11.30-11.55 Thomas M. Cimarusti: 'A Spirit-Stirring Character and a Mingling of Pathos': The Reception of Wanhal in 19-th Century America
12.00-13.00 LUNCH
13.00-13.50 Halvor K. Hosar: Future Courses or Dead Horses? The Catalogus Novus Wanhali and the Future of Wanhal Studies
13.50-14.00 BREAK
14.00-14.45 Round table: 'Nebenmänner' No Longer! Future Courses for Eighteenth-Century Music Studies
14.45-15.00 CLOSING REMARKS