Carl Nielsen: Texts and Contexts
29-31 January, 2009, University of Manchester
Call for Papers:
'Carl Nielsen: Texts and Contexts' seeks to give decisive new impulse to the standing of Denmark's national composer in the international scholarly world and to appraise recent developments in Nielsen scholarship in the light of recent debates in music history, theory and analysis.
The conference will take place at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, University of Manchester, England, from 13.00 on Thursday 29 to 13.00 on Saturday 31 January 2009. It is timed to coincide with the completion of the Carl Nielsen Edition (1994-2008) and the cycle of Nielsen's symphonies at the Bridgewater Hall, shared between the Hallé and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras and conducted by Sir Mark Elder and Sakari Oramo. Additional performances during the time of the conference will include a recital featuring new English translations of some of Nielsen's best-known songs, commissioned for the last volume of the Edition. The event will also feature documentary films and a major exhibition.
Papers will be given by leading scholars in the US, UK and Denmark, including Patrick McCreless (Yale), Raymond Knapp (UCLA), and Niels Krabbe (director of the Carl Nielsen Edition, Copenhagen), and it is anticipated that most musicologists worldwide with an interest in Nielsen will be present. Contributions will be assessed for inclusion in Vol. 4 of Carl Nielsen Studies.
It is expected that Danish scholars will concentrate mainly on textual aspects, including those of works recently published for the first time, and on the ongoing publication of Nielsen's correspondence. But submissions are invited on all aspects of Nielsen's music - historical, analytical, critical, practical, and ideological - and its place in the history of late-19th- and early 20th-century music.
Applications are invited for papers of 20 minutes duration. Please submit titles and abstracts (250 words) by email to the conference organisers by 30 September 2008.
Contacts:
- David Fanning - David.Fanning@manchester.ac.uk
- Daniel Grimley - Daniel.Grimley@nottingham.ac.uk
- Colin Roth - C.Roth@sheffield.ac.uk