Perspectives on Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music invites you to the international conference Perspectives on Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven: A Conference in Honor of H.C. Robbins Landon.This conference will observe what would have been the 100th birthday of musicologist H.C. Robbins Landon, the most important scholar of the music of Joseph Haydn, to which he devoted his entire life, and one of the most famous graduates of the BU School of Music (B Mus., MM, Doctorate Honoris Causa). Landon was an exceptional scholar whose work was both rigorous and idiosyncratic. He did archival research, he wrote biographies; he wrote for both the scholar and the public; he made editions for the performer and scholar, and he spoke to audiences on television; he published books and distilled his research and his excitement for Haydn into hundreds of liner and program notes that he wrote. In the end, and despite any shortcomings in his research, all Haydn research leads back to him, particularly his five-volume Haydn: Chronicle and Works.

This two-day conference features new work not only on Haydn but about Mozart and Beethoven as well and features two keynote speakers: the great Beethoven specialist Robert Winter, Professor Emeritus at UCLA, and Kenneth Slowik, Artistic Director of the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society.

Presented by The Boston University Center for the Humanities, Boston University Center for Early Music Studies, The Haydn Society of America, and The Mozart Society of America.

Schedule and Locations:

Friday, March 6, 9am - 12pm • Boston University, Howard Thurman Center • 808 Commonwealth Ave. Room 205

Friday, March 6, 1:30 - 5pm • Boston University College of Fine Arts • 855 Commonwealth Ave. CFA 254 (Marshall Room)

Saturday, March 7, 9am - 4:30pm Berklee College of Music • 1140 Boylston St. Room 1A

When 9:00 am - 5:00 pm on 6 March 2026
Building 808 and 855 Commonwealth Ave.
Room FLR 205; CFA 254