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Journées France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918

Date of the symposium:
11-13 juillet 2022

Réunion annuelle du réseau FMC organisée du 11 au 13 juillet 2022 au Palazzetto Bru Zane (Venise).

Comité d’organisation : Katharine Ellis, Mark Everist et Kerry Murphy.

Programme

Francophone Music Criticism

Matthieu Cailliez – Les écrits de Fromental Halévy

Arnold Jacobshagen – The Obituary as a benchmark of canonization. Rossini and the French press in 1868

Sylvia Kahan – Reportage of Chamber Music in the Paris Dailies, 1860-1918

Agents of change 

Peter Asimov – Reassembling Bourgault-Ducoudray

Axel Klein – Swan Hennessy: an American in Paris

Critical knowledge

Francesca Brittan – Attention, Instrumentality, and the Orchestration of Mind

Davinia Caddy – Maurice Rollinat and a Hermeneutics of the Flesh

Nathan Dougherty – Closing the Memorative Wound: Clinical Nostalgia and the French Romance

Iconography and Fashion c1800 

Julia Doe – Musical Sociability and Atlantic Slavery in the Portraiture of Carmontelle

Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden – Fashion, Musical Taste, and the French Revolution: Journal de la mode et du goût

Marjolaine David et Sandrine Divanac'h – Une faïence illustrée de la partition ‘Souvenirs du jeune âge’ du Pré aux clercs, romance d’Hérold (1791-1833): étude iconographique et musicologique?

Femmes musiciennes 

Fauve Bougard – Les étudiantes du Conservatoire au XIXe siècle: dépasser le modèle de la ‘jeune fille au piano’

Gareth Cordery – Louise Farrenc, Music Pedagogy, and the Gendered Reception of the Étude in Nineteenth-Century France

Helena Tyrväinen – Soprano Aïno Ackté and the guardians of her golden cage: the Parisian opera machine as a network

France to Algeria and Polynesia and back again

Kerry Murphy – Exoticism, militarism and chauvinism in representations of Algeria in 19thcentury French opera-comique

Geoffrey Colson – Hīmene, voix de Polynésie : enjeux d’un nouveau genre vocal au XIXe siècle

Jann Pasler – The discourse of ruins and musical archaeology : from France to Algeria

Round Table Upstaging Opera – Annelies Andries, Jacek Blaszkiewicz, Mark Everist, Jens Hesselhager, William Osmond, Clair Rowden, Tommaso Sabbatini, Richard Sherr.

Opera and Dance

Emma Kavanagh – Upturning Forster’s Hourglass: Fate, Narrative, and the Will of God in Massenet’s Thaïs

Sophie Benn – “La France marche dans un rythme glorieux”: Metaphors of Immigration and National Identity in the Tango Craze of 1913

Laure Schnapper – Isaac Strauss (1806-1888), le musicien de Napoléon III

Composition, Improvisation and Analysis

Pauline Amar – De l’improvisation à la composition: genèse stylistique de Camille Saint-Saëns (1850-1865)

Andrew Deruchie – Hearing Debussy Listen: Urban Sound and the Nocturnes

Sylvain Caron – Le cycle Spleens et Détresses de Louis Vierne: une relecture musicale de l’univers verlainien

Military and sacred sound 

Samuel T. Nemeth – Battle of the Bands: The Dawn of a New Brass Technology 

Jennifer Walker – Constructing Sacred Sound: Hector Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts at the Church of Saint-Eustache

Tadhg Sauvey – Questioning the Modernity of a Genre: Cesar Franck’s Les Béatitudes and the “Renewal” of Oratorio in Fin-de-Siècle Paris

Programme

Related works

Le Pré aux clercs

Ferdinand HÉROLD

/

Eugène de PLANARD

L'Île du rêve

Reynaldo HAHN

/

Georges HARTMANN André ALEXANDRE

Thaïs

Jules MASSENET

/

Louis GALLET

Les Béatitudes

César FRANCK

/

Joséphine COLOMB

Related persons

Composer

Fromental HALÉVY

(1799 - 1862)

Composer

Gioachino ROSSINI

(1792 - 1868)

Choirmaster, Composer

Louis-Albert BOURGAULT-DUCOUDRAY

(1840 - 1910)

Composer, Pianist

Louise FARRENC

(1804 - 1875)

Soprano

Aino ACKTÉ

(1876 - 1944)

Composer, Organist

Louis VIERNE

(1870 - 1937)

Composer, Pianist

Claude DEBUSSY

(1862 - 1918)

Conductor, Composer, Journalist

Hector BERLIOZ

(1803 - 1869)

Composer, Organist, Pianist

César FRANCK

(1822 - 1890)

Conductor, Composer, Violinist

Isaac STRAUSS

(1806 - 1888)

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