Zelenka Festival & Conference Prague-Dresden, 16-19 October 2019

Friends,

I’ve been told by Adam Viktora that the 2019 Zelenka Festival & Conference will kick off on the 340th birthday of our composer, Wednesday 16 October. The conference will be held on Friday 18 October and Jan Stockigt expects that there will be “surplus” of papers, so hopefully we will get a strong contribution from the amazing Australians like last year.

Further dates and program details will be given soon.

Please note that the Festival/Conference dates were incorrectly given in the official website, but this has now been fixed. The program looks like this, with the conference taking place on Friday 18th and the ZWV 16 / ZWV 166 concert later that evening, and the Dresden performance the following day:

16th of October 2019 at 7.30PM – Praha / venue yet to be announced
From Zelenka´s personal collection of secular vocal music: G. A. Haase / A. M. Bononcini / N. Porpora
Musica Aeterna / Peter Zajíček – artistic director

17th of October 2019 at 7.30PM – Praha / kostel Panny Marie pod řetězem, Lázeňská 2, Praha 1 – Malá Strana
J. D. Zelenka: Sepolcri
Collegium Marianum / Jana Semerádová – artistic director

18th of October 2019 from 10AM to 18PM – Praha / venue yet to be announced
Zelenka Conference Prague 2019

18 of October 2019 at 7.30PM – Kostel Panny Marie pod řetězem, Lázeňská ul., Praha 1 – Malá Strana
19 of October 2019 at 17.00PM – Annenkirche, Dresden
J. D. Zelenka: Missa purificationis Beatae Virginis Mariae ZWV 16 & Currite ad aras ZWV 166 (World Premiere!)
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The full program of the upcoming conference has been announced, see below. There are some really interesting papers this year and the one I am looking most forward to is from Pavel Jurák, who will argue that three anonymous sacred works (now missing) in Zelenka’s inventory were composed by the great Porpora. We know that Zelenka owned opera arias of Porpora but I have always found the absence of his sacred works in Zelenka’s collection to be somewhat strange. It will be exciting to hear if Jana Perutková, one of the finest Czech musicologists, has new information about performances of Zelenka’s oratorios in the Bohemian and Moravian lands. Jan Stockigt’s study of Zelenka’s first Mass comes at a great time with the eagerly awaited CD recording of Ensemble Inegal to be released later this year. Andrew Frampton’s forensic research into Zelenka's music continues and this year he will tackle a neglected part of Zelenka studies, namely how the composer reworked and reused parts of his own compositions. Sadly, Shelley Hogan can not be with us so her paper will be read by Samantha Owens. Throughout the years I have here in the forum referred to Shelley’s in-depth study of the basso continuo section of the Dresden Hofkapelle, and now we finally get to hear what she has found. A special guest is the brilliant David Irving who will demonstrate the difference between the French and Italian bowing techniques used by the concert master Woulmyer and his successor Pisendel. In my paper I will present the fruits of my continuing research in the Dresden archives, while using the opportunity to crush a couple of especially annoying myths... And finally, with the conference dedicated to the memory of Wolfgang Horn, it is fitting that Fred Kiernan shares with us details from his wide-ranging interview with Horn.

ZELENKA CONFERENCE 2019
k uctění památky profesora Wolfganga Horna / in honour of the memory of Professor Wolfgang Horn

Pátek / Friday 18. 10. 2019
Knihovna muzikologického odd. Ústavu dějin umění AV ČR Praha,
Puškinovo náměstí 447/9, Praha 6

PROGRAM
Předsedající / Chair: Samantha Owens (University of Melbourne)
10:00 – 10:10
Zahájení / Opening

10:10 – 10:50
Jóhannes ÁGÚSTSSON (Reykjavík): “Johann Samuel Kaÿser (1708-1750): Composer, Double Bass Player and Zelenka’s Colleague and Assistant”

10:50 – 11.05
Přestávka / Coffee break

11:05 – 11:30
Janice STOCKIGT (University of Melbourne): “The Genesis and Evolution of Zelenka’s Missa Sanctae Caeciliae (ZWV 1)”

11:30 – 12:00
David IRVING (ICREA, Institució Milà i Fontanals, Barcelona): “French and Italian Bowholds in the Early Eighteenth Century: Implications for Musical Change within the Dresden Hofkapelle”

12:00 – 14:00
Oběd / Lunch

14:00 – 14:30
Jana PERUTKOVÁ (Ústav hudební vědy, Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity Brno): „Oratoria, určená k provádění u Božího hrobu v českých zemích a Rakousku v 18. století a případ Zelenka“

14:30 – 15:00
Andrew FRAMPTON (University of Oxford): “Hidden in Plain Sight: Parody and Reworking in the Sacred Vocal Music of Jan Dismas Zelenka”

15: 00-15: 15
Přestávka / Coffee break

15: 15- 15:45
Shelley HOGAN (University of Melbourne): “A Reconstruction of Zelenka’s Early Membership in the Dresden Hofkapelle” (To be read by Samantha Owens)

15:45 – 16:15
Pavel JURÁK (Ústav hudební vědy, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, Praha): „Nicola Porpora v Inventáriu Jana Dismase Zelenky“

16:15 – 16:45
Frederic KIERNAN (University of Melbourne): „Wolfgang Horn and Zelenka“