TWELFTH BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BAROQUE MUSIC

Warsaw, 26th-30th July 2006

Conference Timetable Overview

The following timetables are updated on 19 June, and further changes are anticipated.

Please also visit the session timetable

Wednesday, 26 July 2006

2 - 6 pm Registration at the Former Warsaw University Library
6 - 7.45 pm Opening addresses, followed by reception (The Royal Castle, Senators’ Hall)
8 - 9.30 pm Concert (St. Joseph Church, Krakowskie Przedmieście 52/54)

Mass compositions of the Masters of the Chapel Royal in Warsaw during the reign of Jan Kazimierz Waza

Programme:

Marco Scacchi Missa Omnium Tonorum Pro Electione Regis
Poloniae Casimiri, 1648 (first world modern performance)
Bartłomiej Pękiel Missa La Lombardesca, 1652
Chamber Choir „Camerata Silesia”

Narol Baroque
Władysław Kłosiewicz – director

 

Thursday, 27 July 2006

Former Warsaw University Library building
Warsaw University
Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28

9 -11 am Papers: Session 1 (three strands)

  • Study session: New Bach research

  • Performance practice and reception in France during the 18th century

  • Tonality and modality in the music theory of the 18th century
11-11.30 am Coffee
11.30-1 pm Papers: Session 2 (four strands)

  • Ballet and dance music

  • Opera in Central Europe

  • Theory and aesthetics of music

  • National languages and problems of prosody or versification

1-2 pm Lunch
2-4 pm Papers: Session 3 (four strands)

  • Bach and Lutheran theology

  • Italian sacred music

  • The courts of the Polish, Danish and Prussian kings

  • New source research
4-4.30 pm Coffee
4.30-6 pm Papers: Session 4 (four strands)

  • The Cello Suites of J.S. Bach

  • French sacred music: sources and research tools

  • Music in Silesia

  • Musical genres
7 pm Concert (The Royal Castle, the Great Assembly Room)

Music for the King August III

Programme:

Giovanni Alberto Ristori La Liberità di Numa Pompilio,
Serenata per musica da cantarsi nel felicisimo giorno natalizio della Sacra
Real Maestà di Augusto III Re di Polonia, 1746 (world premiere of modern performance)

Baroque Orchestra “Il Tempo”
Agata Sapiecha – director

 

Friday, 28 July 2006

Former Warsaw University Library building
Warsaw University
Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28

9 -11 am Papers: Session 1 (four strands)

  • French opera and cantata

  • Round table 1: The changing artistic priorities of German Hofkapellen, 1715-1760: a comparative panel

  • Music and musicians in seventeenth-century England

  • Opera and gender studies
11-11.30 am Coffee
11.30-1 pm Papers: Session 2 (four strands)

  • Study session: Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750)

  • Barbara Strozzi

  • Keyboard music in seventeenth-century England

  • Music in Roman confraternities and Jesuit schools
1-2 pm Lunch
2-4 pm Papers: Session 3 (four strands)

  • J.S. Bach – contexts

  • The philosophy of music in the seventeenth century

  • Musical drama and politics

  • Viol music in England and France
4-4.30 pm Coffee
4.30-5.30 pm Papers: Session 4 (four strands)

  • Lecture-recital: Rhetoric and Expression

  • Music and the Bible

  • The migration of musicians

  • Castrati
7 pm Gala Conference Dinner (Pałac Zamoyskich, ul. Foksal 1-2)

Saturday, 29 July 2006

Former Warsaw University Library building
Warsaw University
Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28

10 -11.30 am Papers: Session 1 (three strands)

  • Sacred music in the Dresden Hofkirche

  • French instrumental music

  • Round table 2: Editing Cavalli
11.30-12 pm Coffee
12-1 pm Papers: Session 2 (four strands)

  • Music in churches and convents (1)

  • Social contexts

  • The dramaturgy of operatic recitative

  • Musical iconography
1-2 pm Lunch
2-3.30 pm Papers: Session 3 (four strands)

  • Music in churches and convents (2)

  • Handel studies

  • Study session: Opera in Warsaw: Latona in Delo

  • Italian instrumental music in the seventeenth century
3.30-4 pm Coffee
4-6 pm Papers: Session 4 (four strands)

  • Round table 3: Western music transmission in early modern Asia

  • Italian cantata and oratorio

  • Performance practice and basso continuo

  • Venetian opera in the seventeenth century: the repertoire and its circulation
8 - 10.30 pm Concert (00-145 Warsaw, Al. Solidarności 76 b)

Opera Spectacle. Note that this concert is not included in the standard registration fees.

Programme:

G. H. Handel: IMENEO (1740)
for details, see http://www.wok.pol.pl/archive/oda/imeneo.htm

 

Sunday, 30 July 2006

Former Warsaw University Library building
Warsaw University
Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28

10-11.30 am Business meeting

Last updated on 09 July 2006