Chopin Events in Poland in September 2016 (Vol. 7, No. 7)

Lazienki Palace in Warsaw

The main Chopin festival of the season, "Chopin and his Europe," ends on August 30, 2016. The Festival in Duszniki has ended already, so what is one to do, if going to Poland and wishing to immerse oneself in Chopin's music?

The fall has other attractions. The regular events of Sunday Chopin recitals at Zelazowa Wola, his birthplace, continue through September, at noon and three o'clock.  The regular Sunday Chopin Recitals at Chopin Monument in the Lazienki Park in Warsaw are also in full swing.

For the academically inspired, and intellectually curious there are two conferences in nearby Radziejowice.

NIFC INTERNATIONAL CHOPIN CONFERENCE 

Radziejowice 2016 - September 17-18.
The lyric and the vocal element in instrumental music of the nineteenth century 

The influence of vocal techniques on the instrumental music of the nineteenth century is widely  accepted and emphasized. The aspects highlighted in discussions of this issue include similarities in the shaping of melodic lines, the adoption of modes of articulation (portamento) and thematic affinities between particular works. Terms such as ‘vocality', ‘songfulness' and ‘lyricism' (indicating the character of Romantic compositions, often strongly subjective and focussed on the expression of inner experiences, in accordance with the properties of the lyric poem as a literary genre) are often used in relation to nineteenth-century music in a descriptive way, not referring to any actual features of a work. It would appear, however, that all these categories are of real significance in instrumental music and that during the nineteenth century they became integral elements of a work, determining its form. The aim of this conference is to examine whether - and if so, to what extent - the lyric and the vocal element in nineteenth-century instrumental music help to create form.

 This conference is one in a series leading to the 2020 International Chopin Congress. The purpose of the congress is "thorough research into the styles of Romantic composers, with the emphasis on the central role and context of the oeuvre of Fryderyk Chopin, considered with regard to particular components of a work: melody, harmony, rhythm, etc."

Please send any inquiries to Ewa Bogula: ebogula@nifc.pl.

ORGANIZER'S ADDRESS
The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, Research and Publishing Department
ul. Tamka 43, 00-355 Warszawa, fax +48 22 44 16 113
e-mail: conference@nifc.pl, www.en.en.chopin.nifc.pl

CONFERENCE VENUE
Dom Pracy Twórczej w Radziejowicach , ul. Henryka Sienkiewicza 4, 96-325 Radziejowice

PROGRAM

16 SEPTEMBER
Mieczysław Tomaszewski, Narodziny liryki instrumentalnej z ducha pieśni
Kenneth Hamilton, Vocality and Structural Generation in Chopin, Liszt and Alkan
David Rowland, Piano Sonority and Melody c.1800-1835

17 SEPTEMBER, MORNING SESSION
Irena Poniatowska, „Śpiewaj, gdy grasz"
Kristen Strandberg, The ‘Singing' Violinist as Artistic Genius in Nineteenth-Century France
Agnieszka Chwiłek, „Der Melodie schenke ich jetzt grosse Sorgfalt". Ewolucja melodyki utworów I dekady twórczości Schumanna
Nikita Mamedov, Chopin's Études: An Analytical Look into Lyricism and Musical Characterization
Stephan Lewandowski, Fantasies or Caprices. Adolph Bernhard Marx' Influence on the Instrumental Style of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Zbigniew Granat, Chopin's Tones, Schubert's Words: The Secret Program of the A Minor Prelude
Charris Efthimiou, On the Instrumentation of the Lyric Theme of Gretchen of Franz Liszt's ‘Faust Symphony'

17 SEPTEMBER, AFTERNOON SESSION
Wojciech Nowik, Chopinowska „Eroica" - Nokturn c-moll op. 48 nr 1
Lauri Suurpää, From Quiet Lament to Raging Frustration: Vocal Topics in Chopin's Nocturne, Op. 48, No. 1
Meghan Chamberlain, Operatic Homoeroticism in Chopin's Nocturne in F major
Bruno Moysan, Liszt et Chopin à l'Opéra et aux Italiens. Qu'en est-il du théâtre ?
Silvia del Zoppo, Chopin's echoes in Italian piano music 1850-1880
Magdalena Oliferko, Hexameron - instrumentalny śpiew di bravura, czyli muzyczne studium psychologii postaci

18  SEPTEMBER, MORNING SESSION
Michael Pecak, ‘dire un morceau du musique': The Language Behind Chopin's Music
Risa Matsuo, Wpływ poezji polskiej na formę ballad Chopina
Krzysztof Bilica, Melos polski nad Dunajem
Wojciech Marchwica, Pieśni z komedioopery „Siedem razy jeden" Ludwika Dmuszewskiego i Józefa Elsnera jako wzorcowy przykład popularyzacji komediooper w pierwszej połowie XIX wieku
Jeremy Coleman, Melodic Flowers and the Mode of Production

CHOPIN COMPETITIONS CONFERENCE 

Second Meeting of the Organizers of Chopin Piano Competitions
Warsaw/Radziejowice 20‒22 September 2016

From the NIFC Website:

"We wish to invite individuals involved in the organising of Chopin competitions to collaborate with us. We invite you to help create our website: we would like it to be, to a considerable extent, a joint website for all of us organisers of Chopin competitions.We also want organisers of Chopin competitions to meet with each other, exchange their experiences and support one another. Our website will facilitate such contacts, but it will never replace personal, ‘real-life’ encounters. That is one of the aims of the conferences, initially held at Radziejowice, near Warsaw, and in future in different countries, co-organised by host competitions. Besides active contributions to the website, in the future we wish to turn participation in the conferences into a permanent platform of understanding and cooperation, in accordance with the ideas and the will of participants."

https://ccc.nifc.pl/en/start/page

https://ccc.nifc.pl/en/radziejowice/year2016