Sounding Habsburg: Sonic Circulations in Central Europe

SATURDAY, April 23 // DAY 2 // 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

9:00 – 10:30 AM

Panel 3: Habsburg Devotional Practices, Aural and Material

Chair: Erika Supria Honisch, Stony Brook University

  • Andrew Weaver, “Defining the Empire in a Music Print: The Novus thesaurus musicus (1568) between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism”

  • Kimberly Hieb, “Regional Agency and Imperial Influence: Sacred Music in Salzburg at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century”

  • Anna Sanda, “Resounding like a ‘Little Vienna’?: Habsburg Ambitions at the Bonn Electoral Court 1784–1794”

 

10:30 – 10:45 AM

Coffee Break

 

10:45 – 12:45 PM

Panel 4: Networks, (Trans)Nationalisms, and Cosmopolitanisms

Chair: David Catchpole, Dvořák American Heritage Association/Texas State University

  • Gregor Kokorz, “The Lost Space: Between Graz and Trieste”

  • Mary Riggs, “Fanny Elssler: Transnational Folkdance and Ballet in the Habsburg Empire”

  • Pavel Kodýtek, “A Habsburg Drama Around Mahler and Smetana: Nationality as a Flaw”

  • Robert Riggs, “Joseph Joachim: Nationalist or Cosmopolitan?”

 

12:45 – 2:15 PM

Lunch Break

 

2:15 – 3:15 PM

Panel 5: Envoicing Habsburg Networks

Chair: Christopher Campo-Bowen, Co-organizer, Virginia Tech

  • Dylan Price, “Transnationalism and Phenomenology in Dvořák’s Gypsy Songs

  • Claudio Vellutini, “Rossini, Weber, and the ‘Entangled’ History of Opera in Vienna, Munich, Prague, and Naples”


3:15 - 3:30 PM

Short Break


3:30 - 4:30 PM

Roundtable: Opera and the Politics of Empire in Habsburg Europe, 1815-1914

Axel Körner, Barbara Babić, and Dietmar Friesenegger

 

4:30 ­­– 4:45 PM

Closing

Christopher Campo-Bowen, Co-organizer, Virginia Tech


4:45 - 5:30 PM

Extended Break

Bohemian National Hall and the Dvořák American Heritage Association require all attendees to in-person events, such as concerts, lectures, etc., to show proof of vaccination (2 doses of Pfizer/Moderna or one does of Johnson and Johnson, and at least one booster shot) and wear a mask at all times while on premises, except when actively eating or drinking.


5:30 - 7:00 PM

Concert

Sounding Habsburg: A Musical Journey around the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Ariana Wyatt and Richard Masters | > learn more



Conference Partners

The Sounding Habsburg conference is organized by the Dvořák American Heritage Association and supported by the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Virginia Tech, and New York University.