Music in the Baltic region and Strauss
The annual conference of the Society for Music Research will take place in Greifswald, Germany, from September 17 to 20, 2014. More than 200 musicologists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland are expected to attend.
At the academic center of the conference are two main symposia on key research areas of the Greifswald Institute for Church Music and Musicology. The Musica Baltica symposium, under the direction of Martin Loeser, is dedicated to the musical culture of the Baltic region with its profound structural changes during the so-called Sattelzeit in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
The second focus will be on the first half of the 20th century and the question of how the life and work of Richard Strauss can be located here. This symposium will be chaired by Walter Werbeck. In addition, there will be extensive symposia and presentations by numerous specialist groups as well as the Virtual Library (ViFa) Music and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM).
A presentation from Switzerland was given by Andreas Baumgartner (Basel, Dem Kitsch auf der Spur: Schubert's Ave Maria). He studied musicology, modern German literature and philosophy in Giessen and Freiburg im Breisgau. During his studies, he was an assistant to the Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie and a tutor for paleography. After graduating in 2010, he began a doctorate on the subject of music and kitsch at the Basel Musicology Seminar in 2011. He has been an assistant for modern music history there since August 2013.
More info:
www.phil.uni-greifswald.de/bereich2/musik/jahrestagung-der-gfm-2014.html
