This paper examines the song oeuvre of British composer Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) with a focus on the construction of femininity and the reflection of feminist… Read More »Magdalena Brandauer: Construction of Femininity in the Songs of Ethel Smyth
When Ludwig van Beethoven completed his “Liederkreis” An die ferne Geliebte op. 98 in April 1816, its purpose seemed clear: a requiem for the recently deceased… Read More »Frithjof Bömcke-Vollmer: Beethoven, the Anti-Heroic? Broken Gestures and Gender in “An die ferne Geliebte” op. 98 (1816)
Whereas a considerable body of work exists on literary responses to Europe’s 1848 revolution, investigations of the musical responses to 1848 are scarce, particularly of… Read More »Sharon Krebs: Married to a Rebel: Two Women Composers’ Responses to the Revolution of 1848
The impossibility of perfect translation is a widely acknowledged trope — we know things get lost in translation, but what can be gained through the… Read More »Chanda VanderHart & Rebecca Babb-Nelsen: The Poet’s Love(r): A Translational Reimagining of Schumann’s Dichterliebe
On July 18, 1850, Schumann composed his only setting of a text by Eligius Franz Josef Freiherr von Münch-Bellinghausen (1806-1871), whose blessedly shorter pseudonym was… Read More »Susan Youens: Editing Erotomania at the Mid-Century Mark: Schumann’s “Geisternähe”
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… Read More »AGiD Session 6
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… Read More »AGiD Session 5
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… Read More »AGiD Session 4
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… Read More »AGiD Session 3: The Musical Afterlife of Ophelia. Art Song, Madness, and the Female Voice
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… Read More »AGiD Session 2