Important information
Head of the International Musicological Symposium:
Jernej Weiss
Wednesday, 9 April
At 9.15-9.30 am
Welcome speeches:
Dušan Bavdek (President of the Society of Slovene Composers)
Jernej Weiss (Head of the International Musicological Symposium)
At 9.30-10.00 am
Keynote lecture:
Klaus Ager (Vienna): Die Gründung einer europäischen Vertretung der Komponisten aller Musikgenres in Europa
At 10.00-10.50 am
Chairman: Luba Kyanovska
Hartmut Krones (Vienna): E contra U: Zusammenarbeit und Krieg zweier Sparten im Österreichischen Komponistenbund
Lubomír Spurný (Brno): Music in Terezín (Theresienstadt)
At 10.50-12.05 am
Chairman: Hartmut Krones
Lidiya Melnik (Lviv): Vor dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs: die unvollendete Geschichte ukrainischer Komponistenverbände in den 1920-30er Jahren
Luba Kyjanovska (Lviv): Die Aktivitäten der Lemberger Sektion des Verbandes der Komponisten der Ukrainischen SSR im Rahmen der Auseinandersetzung mit der sowjetischen Ideologie
Helmut Loos (Leipzig): Über den Bezirksverband Leipzig des Verbandes der Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler der DDR
At 2.45-4.00 pm
Chairman: Maja Vasiljević
Ingeborg Zechner (Graz): How Music Works: The Screen Composers Association and the Musical Life in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s
Joanna Bullivant (Birmingham): The Composers’ Guild of Great Britain and ‘unofficial diplomacy’ in Eastern Europe
Wolfgang Marx (Dublin): Composers’ Associations in Ireland
At 4.15-5.30 pm
Chairman: Dušan Bavdek
Máté Hollós (Budapest): To be or not to be a civil association?
Csaba Kézér (Düsseldorf): The Evolution of the Schweizerischer Tonkünstlerverein: From a National Pillar of Tradition to Its Growing Role in Contemporary Music
Stephen McNeff (Dublin): Composers’ Societies in the UK and Ireland since 1944
Thursday, 10 April
At 9.30-10.00 am
Keynote lecture:
Sonja Kralj (Ljubljana): Social, statutory and artistic interactions in the history of the
Society of Slovene Composers
At 10.00-10.50 am
Chairman: Sonja Kralj
Aleš Gabrič (Ljubljana): The Cultural and Political Milieu of the Initial Period of Activity of the Society of Slovene Composers
Tjaša Ribizel Popič (Ljubljana): The initial concert activity of the Society of Slovene Composers: through the prism of international cooperation
Jernej Weiss (Ljubljana-Maribor): The Slavko Osterc Ensemble (1961–1981): The Principal Promoter of the Creativity of the Society of Slovene Composers Abroad
At 11.15-12.05 am
Chairman: Jernej Weiss
Antun Tomislav Šaban (Zagreb): Kroatischer Komponistenverband: 80 Jahre Mitgestaltung der nationalen Kultur und des gesellschaftlichen Lebens
Dušan Bavdek (Ljubljana): The Society of Slovene Composers – Role in society and today’s challenges
At 2.45-4.15 pm
Chairman: Tjaša Ribizel Popič
Maja Vasiljević and Biljana Leković (Belgrade): Yugoslav-Soviet Union relations from the 1950s to 1970s: Examples of musical cooperation, exchange and transfer by members of UKS, SAKOJ and SOKOJ with Soviet institutions
Nataša Didenko (Skopje): The Union of Composers of Macedonia in the Past and Present: Combining Profesionalism and Nationality
Fatima Hadžić and Amra Bosnić (Sarajevo): The Sarajevo Period of Dane Škerl’s Artistic Activity
The International Musicological Symposium will be held in English and German.