New Beethoven Research Conference Event Notice NEW

The Eleventh International New Beethoven Research Conference (NBR 11) will take place Wednesday, November 5 and Thursday morning, November 6, in Minneapolis, prior to the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory.  The NBR conference is free to attend and the program is below.

AMS Minneapolis, Hyatt Regency, Regency Room

Wednesday, November 5: 9:00-12:00: New Perspectives on the Piano Music
Chair: Alan Gosman

• Malcolm Miller: “Freedom and Space in Beethoven’s Fantasie, Opus 77”
• Rose Mauro: “Beethoven at a Crossroads: His Piano Sonata in E Minor, Opus 90, as a Meditation on Vocal and Instrumental Styles”
• Gilad Rabinovitch: “Diabelli vs. Diabelli: A View from Schema Theory”
• Siân Derry: “Evoking the Spirit of Beethoven: Charles Halle as Performer and Editor of the Piano Sonatas”

Wednesday, November 5: 2-5 p.m.: From the Baroque to the Present: Reimagining Form, Philosophy, Literary Muse, and Disability
Chair: William Meredith

• Francesco Fontanelli: “’Predestined’ Sonata Forms in Beethoven’s Quartets Opp. 127 and 132: Testing Subthematicism through the Sketches”
• Nicholas Chong: “Beethoven and the Liberal Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin”
• Donna Beckage: “Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations as Literary Muse”
• Kristin Franseen and Hester Bell Jordan: “’Maelzels Metronom ist da!’ Reconsidering Technological Accessibility in Beethoven’s and Salieri’s Metronome Usage”

Thursday, November 6: 9:00 a.m. to Noon: Late Works Reconsidered: Mode, Operatic Stretta, and Metric Shifts
Chair: David Levy

• Jonathon Crompton: “Beethoven’s Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Opus 131: The Neo-Phrygian Quartet”
• Matthew Boyle: “Rossinian Closure, Begging Cadences, and the Finale of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9”
• Richard Cohn: “Primed Metric Shifts in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony”
• Keynote: Birgit Lodes: Echoes of Dedication: Beethoven and the Women Who Shaped His Art

The conference is sponsored by the American Beethoven Society, the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, the Krown Klein endowment fund at UCLA, and a private donor.