Appendix 1 | Conference Programme
An International Symposium
Goethe: Musical Poet. Musical Catalyst

Friday 26 March 2004

8.45am	Registration
9.00am	Official Opening and Welcome   Prof. Gerard Gillen (Head of Department of Music, NUI Maynooth)

Goethe and Music

Chair: Dr Barra Boydell (Department Of Music, NUI Maynooth)

9.10am Prof. Otto Biba (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna): ‘The Presence of Goethe’s Work in the Viennese, Austrian, Hapsburg Music Scene in the late 18^th and early 19^th century.’

Eberl:	‘Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt’
Krufft:	‘Lied aus Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahren’ ‘Trost in Thränen’
Czerny:	‘Das Geheimnis’ ‘Des Mädchens Klage’ ‘Der Erlkönig’
Dietrichstein:	‘An die Entfernte’ ‘Nähe des Geliebten’ ‘Wandrers Nachtlied’
Tomášek:	‘Mignons Sehnsucht’
Una McMahon (mezzo), Mairead Buicke & Anna Devin (sopranos) Dearbhla Collins (piano)

10.00am Prof. Jan Smaczny (School of Music, The Queen’s University of Belfast): ‘Goethe and the Czechs.’

Tomášek:	‘Heidenröslein’, op.53 ‘Mignons Sehnsucht’, op.54, no.1 ‘Die Bekehrte’, op.54, no.3 ‘Frühzeitiger Frühling’, op.54, no.4 ‘Erlkönig’, op.59, no.1
Una McMahon (mezzo) & Dearbhla Collins (piano)

11.00am Coffee.

11.15am Dr Lorraine Byrne (Department of Music, NUI Maynooth): ‘The Goethe-Zelter Letters: Musical Implications.’

Zelter:	‘Wandrers Nachtlied’ ‘Rastlose Liebe’
Una McMahon (mezzo), Anna Devin (soprano), Dearbhla Collins (piano)

The Music of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy College Chapel

12.15pm Recital: Prof. Gerard Gillen (organ).
	Nachspiel in D (1831) Prelude in c (1841) Fugue in C (1839) Sonata in A, op.65 no.3 Sonata in B Flat, op.65 no.4
1.15pm Lunch (Pugin Hall).

Goethe, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre

Chair: Prof. Moray McGowan (Head of Department of Germanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin)

2.30pm Keynote Address: Prof. Nicholas Boyle (Department of German, University of Cambridge): ‘ “Thealogy”: Gods, Goddesses, and Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre in Goethe’s Religious Development.’

Goethe’s Mignon

Chair: Prof. Harry White (Head of Department of Music, University College Dublin)

4.00pm ‘The Wondrous Child: Mignon’s Story.’ Dramatic Reading by Peter Jankowsky.

5.15pm Buffet Supper (Pugin Hall).

Schumann’s Requiem für Mignon

St Mary’s Church of Ireland, Maynooth

6.15pm Dr Julian Horton (Department of Music, University College Dublin): ‘Schumann’s Requiem für Mignon and the Concept of Music as Literature.’

Schumann: ‘Requiem für Mignon’ from Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (op.98b)

I	Soloist and Choir: ‘Wen bringt ihr uns zur stillen Gesellschaft’
II	Soloists (Soprano I and Alto I): ‘Ach wie ungern brachten wir ihn her’
III	Soloists and Choir: ‘Seht die mächtigen Flügel doch an’
IV	Soloists and Choir: ‘In euch lebe die bildende Kraft’
V	Soloists and Choir: ‘Kinder, kehret in’s Leben züruck’
VI	Soloists and Choir: ‘Kinder! eilet in’s Leben hinan’

North South Performers:

Queen’s Consort & Maynooth Chamber Choir

	Helen Kearns (soprano), Toni Walsh (soprano), Niamh O’ Hanlon (alto), Cliodhna McDonogh (alto), John Malloy (baritone),
Accompanied by Frances Kelleher. Conducted by Colman Pearce.

7.30 pm Coffee.

Mignon und der Harfner

Bewerunge Room, Department of Music, Maynooth

	8.00pm	Seóirse Bodley: Mignon und der Harfner   (First performance, commissioned for the conference.)
	I	‘An die Türen’ (Harper)
	II	‘Heiß mich nicht reden’ (Mignon)
	III	‘Wer nie sein Brot’ (Harper)
	IV	‘Kennst du das Land?’ (Mignon)
	V	‘Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt’ (Harper)
	VI	‘So laßt mich scheinen’ (Mignon)
	VII	‘Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt’ (Mignon and the Harper)
	Kathleen Tynan (soprano), Sam McElroy (baritone), Dearbhla Collins (piano).

Short pre-concert talk by the composer at 8.00pm.

9.00pm Wine Reception.

Saturday 27 March 2004

Goethe and Music

Chair: Prof. Gerard Gillen (Head of Department of Music, NUI Maynooth)

9.00am Dr Gareth Cox (Head of Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick): ‘ “Blumengruss und Blumenglöckchen”: Goethe’s Influence on Anton Webern.’

Webern:	‘Blumengruss’ ‘Gleich und Gleich’
Mairead Buicke (soprano) Dearbhla Collins (piano)

10.15am Briony Williams (Royal Academy of Music, London): ‘Maker, Mother, Muse: Bettine von Arnim, Goethe and the Boundaries of Creativity.’

Bettine von Arnim:	‘An Luna’ ‘Ach neige du Schmerzenreiche’
Una McMahon (mezzo) & Anna Devin (soprano) Dearbhla Collins (piano)

11.00am Coffee.

Goethe and Beethoven I

Chair: Prof. Nicholas Boyle (Department of German, University of Cambridge)

11.15am Prof. Moray McGowan (Head of Department of Germanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin): ‘Fidelio and Faust in the German Wende of 1989/90.’

12.15pm Lunch.

1.15pm Recital: Schubert: Quartet for Flute, Guitar, Viola and Cello (D96)

John Feeley (guitar), William Dowdell (flute), William Butt (cello) and John Lynch (viola). Schubert: 15 Original Dances for Flute or Violin and Guitar (D365) (Bill Dowdell and John Feeley).

Goethe and Beethoven II

Chair: Prof. Jan Smaczny (School of Music, The Queen’s University of Belfast)

2.15pm Dr Amanda Glauert (Royal Academy of Music, London): ‘Ich denke dein’: Beethoven’s Retelling of Goethe’s Poetry.

Beethoven	‘Kennst du das Land’, op.75, no.1
Reichardt	‘Ich denke dein’
Beethoven/ Erk-Boehme	‘Ich denke dein’
Beethoven	Six Variations on ‘Ich denke dein’, woo74
Colette Boushell (soprano)
Frances Kelleher (piano)
Adele Commins (piano)

3.15pm Dr Claus Canisius (Badisches Konservatorium, Karlsruhe): Göthe and Beethowen: Men of Genius between Distance and Affinity.

Beethoven	‘Marmotte’ op.52, no.7 ‘Mailied’, op.52, no.4
Colette Boushell (soprano) Frances Kelleher (piano)

4.30pm Wine Reception.

Cadenza for a Conference

5.15pm	Dr Alison Hood (Music Department, NUI Maynooth): piano Beethoven, Bagatelles, op.119, nos.1, 3 & 4
5.20pm	Cadenza for a Conference. Micheal O’ Siadhail: ‘Hopscotch’: A Meditation on Boundaries
7.30pm	Conference Dinner in the Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth.