Programme

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Wednesday 16 December
1200-1300 Registration (Foyer)
1300-1400 Michael Maul (Bach-Archiv, Leipzig): 'Expedition Bach': Aims, Insights and Methods (McMordie Hall)
In the year 2001 the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig started an ambitious research project, the so-called 'Expedition Bach', a long-term project with the intention of discovering and identifying unknown Bach documents. The main focus of the project is to systematically examine the holdings of all - approximately 400 - towns in Central Germany. Eight years into the project we have many positive results, unknown Bach autographs have been found, as well as letters written by the composer and new important documents about the performance practice of Bach's music. In my paper I will present a few recent findings of the 'Expedition Bach' project, as well as insights about the methodology and objectives of the project.

Michael Maul (b.1978) studied Musicology at the University of Leipzig. He received his doctorate in 2006 from the Albert-Ludwig University in Freiburg and was awarded the distinguished Gerhart-Baumann prize for his doctoral dissertation on Baroque Opera in Leipzig (1693-1720) (published in 2009). He has published widely on various aspects of Bach's biography, music of the 17th and 18th centuries and has made several important discoveries including the aria 'Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn' (BWV 1127), the 'Weimarer Orgeltabulatur' and the oldest known opera manuscript in the German language J. Sebastiani's Pastorello musicale. Michael Maul is a lecturer at the University of Leipzig and member of the directorate of the Neue Bachgesellschaft.
1400-1430 Coffee Break (Foyer)
1430-1645 Session 1 (McMordie Hall)
  • Yo Tomita (Queen's University Belfast): The Well-Tempered Clavier in Pre-Classical Vienna: A New Source and its Implications
  • Alison Dunlop (Queen's University Belfast): Reconstructing Muffat: The Role of Catalogues
  • Sarah McCleave (Queen's University Belfast): Writing for Dancers: Handel's Compositional Processes
1700-1800 Reception (McMordie Hall)
1900 Symposium Dinner (Deanes www.michaeldeane.co.uk)

Thursday 17 December
0930-1050 Session 2 (McMordie Hall)
  • Kerry Houston (Dublin Institute of Technology): Musical Migrants: Manuscript sources at St Patrick's Cathedral as a window on music making in Winchester, Salisbury and other English Cathedrals
  • Tríona O'Hanlon (Dublin Institute of Technology): Mercer's Music and RISM: a 21st-Century Collaboration
1050-1120 Coffee Break (Foyer)
1120-1300 Session 3 (McMordie Hall)
  • Jan Smaczny (Queen's University Belfast): The Reassertion of Wissenschaft: Case Studies in Czech Musicology before and after the 'Velvet Revolution'
  • Jurij Snoj (Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts): Plainchant and Digital Technologies: Indices of Eastern-European Sources
  • Tanja Kovačević (Queen's University Belfast): Elusive Bach: An Emerging Picture of Bach Reception in Central Europe
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1520 Session 4, Part 1 (McMordie Hall)
  • David Wyn Jones (Cardiff University): Converting Symphonies into String Quartets: Haydn's Forgotten Quartets
  • Balázs Mikusi (National Széchényi Library, Budapest): The Esterházy Collection Rediscovered
1520-1540 Coffee Break (Foyer)
1540-1700 Session 4, Part 2 (McMordie Hall)
  • Loukia Drosopoulou (University of York): The Manuscript Collection MS 16735 (1-9) at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France: A New Source for Study of Luigi Boccherini's Opp. 10-13 and 17-21
  • Ian Woodfield (Queen's University Belfast): The Fifth Man: Leipzig, Vienna and the Casting of Don Giovanni