Talks from Season 1
Madlen Poguntke: Reframing Artsong: Transcultural Perspectives from Korean Gisaeng to European Salon Culture
“The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that ‘a…
Jacy Pedersen: Identity and Nostalgia in Stefania Turkevych’s “Emigration Elegy”
Use of song as an expression of national identity and the desire for independence from foreign power…
Franziska Weigert: ‘Mother, Father, Child’ – Family Portrayals in German Romantic Lullabies and Their Role in Gender Discourse
Lullabies convey heavy undertones of gender, as both the genre and the singing practice are rooted i…
Christopher Parton: Maria Theresia Paradis and Eighteenth-Century Fictions of Blindness
The life of the blind Viennese musician Maria Theresia Paradis (1859-1824) has become more widely kn…
Lara Venghaus: From gender as an aesthetic category in Friedrich Schleiermachers “Weihnachtsfeier“ to the underrated compositions of Louise Reichardt
A more thorough examination of early Romantic art songs reveals that numerous composers of this era …
Jenna Ristilä: Music as emancipator in Carita Holmström’s Södergran songs
My presentation is an excerpt from my upcoming article on Finnish composer Carita Holmström’s song c…
Stephen Rodgers: Gathering Leaves: Pauline Decker and the Limits of the Song Cycle
In the 19th century, song offered women composers a socially sanctioned medium of expression, even a…
Kimberly Soby: Framing Ophelia: Gender, Madness, and Musical Agency in Strauss’s Ophelia Lieder
Composed in 1918, Richard Strauss’s Ophelia Lieder (Op. 67) transform Shakespeare’s fragmented heroi…
Jennifer Tipton: A Document in Death and Madness: Nineteenth-Century Art Song Settings of Ophelia’s Death
This lecture examines the nineteenth-century fascination with Shakespeare’s Ophelia as a cultural sy…
Chris van Rhyn: Finding the masculine and White African gay woman in Priaulx Rainier’s Art Songs
Priaulx Rainier (1903-1986) was born in Howick, in the Natal colony, now the South African province …
Magdalena Brandauer: Construction of Femininity in the Songs of Ethel Smyth
This paper examines the song oeuvre of British composer Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) with a focus on the …
Frithjof Bömcke-Vollmer: Beethoven, the Anti-Heroic? Broken Gestures and Gender in “An die ferne Geliebte” op. 98 (1816)
When Ludwig van Beethoven completed his “Liederkreis” An die ferne Geliebte op. 98 in April 181…
Sharon Krebs: Married to a Rebel: Two Women Composers’ Responses to the Revolution of 1848
Whereas a considerable body of work exists on literary responses to Europe’s 1848 revolution, invest…
Chanda VanderHart & Rebecca Babb-Nelsen: The Poet’s Love(r): A Translational Reimagining of Schumann’s Dichterliebe
The impossibility of perfect translation is a widely acknowledged trope — we know things get lost in…
Susan Youens: Editing Erotomania at the Mid-Century Mark: Schumann’s “Geisternähe”
On July 18, 1850, Schumann composed his only setting of a text by Eligius Franz Josef Freiherr von M…