Conference Program

Haydn and Landon

Perspectives on Haydn Scholarship in Celebration of H. C. Robbins Landon
An International Conference at Boston University

1-2 October 2009

Presented by the Boston University School of Music – College of Fine Arts,
the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, and Marsh Chapel

Conference Schedule

Thursday, 1 October

Metcalf Trustee Center, One Silber Way, 9th Floor (map)

• 4 pm – Introduction and Welcome: Victor Coelho, Professor of Music & Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education
• 4:15 pm – Keynote lecture: Otto Biba (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna): “Celebrating Haydn and Landon”
• 5:30-6 pm – Reception

Marsh Chapel (map)

• 8 pm – Performance of Haydn’s first Missa Cellensis (known before Landon as the St. Cecilia Mass), with the Cambridge Concentus, conducted by Joshua Rifkin. Free.

Friday, 2 October

Mugar Memorial Library, Roosevelt Room (map)

• 9 am-12:30 pm – Paper Session. Chair: Victor Coelho
  • David Wyn Jones (Cardiff University): “Converting Symphonies Into String Quartets: Haydn’s Forgotten Quartets”
  • Jessica Waldoff (College of the Holy Cross), “Beyond the ‘Chaos’: Understanding Haydn’s ‘C-Minor Mood’”
  • Edward Green (Manhattan School of Music): “Chromatic Completion – A Little Appreciated Technical Link Connecting the Operas of Gluck, Haydn and Mozart”
  • Caryl Clark (University of Toronto) “Haydn’s Conversion Masses”

Mugar Memorial Library, Arthur Fiedler Reading Room (map)

• 12:30 pm – Lunch and Opening of the Exhibition “Celebrating Franz Joseph Haydn and His Champion, H.C. Robbins Landon: A Retrospective Exhibition”

Mugar Memorial Library, Roosevelt Room (map)

• 2 pm – 5 pm – Paper Session. Chairs: Joshua Rifkin, Jeremy Yudkin
  • Benjamin Korstvedt (Clark University): “The Fate of Haydn’s ‘Sham Recapitulations’ in the 1780s: Refining and Extending a Critical Category”
  • Evan Cortens (Cornell University): “The ‘Continuous Exposition’ in Haydn’s String Quartets”
  • Stephen C. Fisher (Fredericksburg, VA): “How Did Haydn Use His Hornists?”
  • Ingrid Fuchs (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna): “The Viennese Musical Salon in the Time of Joseph Haydn: Ladies and Gentlemen as Hosts and Performers”

Conference Organizing Committee
Victor Coelho, Joshua Rifkin, Jeremy Yudkin (Department of Musicology) &
Vita Paladino (Director, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center

Administrator
Basil Considine