La judaïté et les arts : musique et compositeurs dans l'Europe du XIX^e siècle

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Keynote

Jehoash Hirshberg – The Jew on the Romantic Opera Stage

Dissemination & Collective Representations

Ivana Gortan-Carlin – La produzione musicale dei compositori ebraici sul territorio della regione istriana nel XIX secolo

Mia Kuritzén Löwengart – Jewish Contribution to the Development of Stockholm’s Public Concert Life

Henri Vanhulst – Deux parcours de compositeurs contrastés : Abraham (Adolphe) Samuel et son fils Eugène

César Leal – Sponsoring and Constructing Modernism: Jewish Patronage, Entrepreneurs, and Cultural Mediation in Paris during «Fin-de-siècle»

Danielle Padley et Susan Wollenberg – Charles Garland Verrinder, First Ever Synagogue Organist in Britain

Jeroen van Gessel – The Fruitless Quest for Recognition of the Jewish Composer Aaron Wolf Berlijn (1817-1870)

Richard Erkens – Compositore, personalità eminente, ebreo. Influssi culturali ebraici sulla carriera artistica di Alberto Franchetti

Daniela Iotti – Una lunga dinastia musicale dai Rothschild ai Franchetti

Jewishness & Politics

Jesse Rosenberg – Samuele Levi’s «Giuditta» (1844): Jewish Heroine or Figure of the «Risorgimento»? Notes on the Philo-Judaic Moment of 19th- Century Italian Opera

Diana R. Hallman – Fromental Halévy and the “Jewish Question” at the Paris Opéra

Rachel Orzech – Hearing Jewishness? The Parisian reception of Halévy’s «La Juive»

Marsha Dubrow – Conversion as a Professional Success Strategy: The Case of Ignaz Moscheles

Benjamin Wolf – Lewandowski as a Man of His Times

Golan Gur – «Die alten Gesänge im Geiste unserer Zeit»: Sulzer, Lewandowski and the Politics of Assimilation in Jewish Liturgical Music

Jewish Cultural Heritage and the Reform

Tamara Jurki Sviben – Reverberations of Reform Jewish Service in Synagogue Music of Northern Croatia on the End of the 19th Century and First Part of the 20th Century

Alon Schab et David Rees – The Sulzerian Reform and the Recently Rediscovered ‘Israeliten’ Manuscript

Yuval Rabin – Hermann Zvi Bermann. A Combination of Functional Synagogue-Music, and High Artistic Aim

Mark Kligman – Isaac Offenbach: Cantorial Artistry in the Early 19th Century

Heritage & Cross-cultural Models: Theory and Reception

Steven J. Cahn – Harmonic Practice in Salomon Jadassohn’s Jewish Choral Music

Caroline Helton – Intersection and Inspiration: Johannes Brahms and His Influence on the Jewish Composers Robert Kahn and Leone Sinigaglia

Paolo Giorgi – Intrecci giudaico-cristiani nei libretti per opera del secondo Ottocento: il caso di Reggio Emilia

Rina Altaras – The Inherited Sacred Value of a Tradition: A Kabbalistic Approach to Mahler’s Second Symphony «Auferstehen»

Maria Christofi – Mahler’s Crisis of Identity: Blaming the Jewish Tradition or the “Psychopathology” of the Convert

Heritage & Cross-cultural Models: About Felix Mendelssohn

Maria Teresa Arfini – L’eredità religiosa di Mendelssohn e il suo approccio alla musica sacra

Siegwart Reichwald – The Gospel According to Mendelssohn: Spiritual Meaning and Liturgical Function in Mendelssohn’s «Three Motets», Op. 39

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