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Symposium wozzeck100

Symposium

Composing | Publishing | Performing Opera, 1918–1939

Thursday 9. April 2026 10:00 – 17:00 2 Intermissions Gustav-Mahler-Saal

Program

Ideologies, cultural struggles, censorship

10:00 Arne Stollberg (Berlin)
"... if this is supposed to be the music of the future, then there never was any". Alban Berg, the Korngolds and the phantasm of the "International"

10:30 Constanze Köhn (Heidelberg)
Wozzeck in Prague 1926

11:00 Max Erwin (Msida, Malta)
The NSDAP as Artistic Sponsor, Publishing House, and Agent: The Modern Operas of the NS-Kulturgemeinde

Wozzeck receptionin authoritarian regimes

11:30 Antonia Klokova (Vienna)
First performance of Wozzeck in Leningrad in 1927 and the reception of Alban Berg in the Soviet Union: actors and media

12:00 Andrea Agresti (Vienna)
"Cultural Resistance" to Fascism or Assertion of Italy's "Intellectual Primacy"? Decision-making processes and the political dimension in the Italian premiere of Wozzeck in 1942

12:30 Lunch break

Publishers and their scope for action

13:30 Christopher Hailey (Pennington, NJ)
The publishing policy of Universal Edition in the interwar period

14:00 Cornelia Bartsch (Hamburg)
Ethel Smyth, Universal Edition and the "Opera Fiasco". Performance options for operas in the interwar period

14:30 Albrecht Dümling (Berlin)
Hindemith, Schott and the prevented premiere of Mathis der Maler

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 Round Table: New opera today - composers, publishers, opera houses in discussion
Daniela Brendel (Berlin), Chaya Czernowin (Cambridge, MA), Merle Fahrholz (Essen), Sergio Morabito (Vienna/Stuttgart), with interview sequences by glanz&krawall (Berlin), moderation: Martin Ebyl (Vienna)

17:00 End
 

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