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Die Tonkunst e.V., Weimar 2023

Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag Wien, 2023 | VÖ des Arbeitsschwerpunktes Salzburger Musikgeschichte 11

Wochenschau Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2024

In the present data collection, manuscripts and prints with music were recorded that were produced in or for Salzburg in older times. Salzburg" is understood to mean the medieval archdiocese of Salzburg, which extended over the present-day province of Salzburg including the Bavarian Rupertiwinkel and also included parts of Carinthia, Styria and Lower Austria. Included are the proper bishoprics of Chiemsee, Gurk, Seckau and Lavant. Independent institutions, such as the monastery of St. Lambrecht, have not been included in the survey, since they went their own liturgical ways, nor has the monastery of Mattsee, which belonged to the diocese of Passau from 907. On the other hand, the music sources of the Benedictine monastery of Michaelbeuern were included, which, despite its ecclesiastical independence, was liturgically oriented to St. Peter and maintained close exchange with Salzburg. The abundance of material - information on about 270 sources was collected - was first divided into music manuscripts, music prints, and music theoretical representations according to the type of source, and then recorded in a chronological order according to centuries. Work contractors: Veronika Obermeier and Karina Zybina. Project management: Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl.

Four work contracts were awarded to gather more detailed information on the history and development of schlager, folk music, rock and pop music, and dance schools in the city of Salzburg in the run-up to the symposium "Those were the days. Salzburg's popular music cultures in the 1950s and 1960s". Soundtracks, newspaper clippings, and other materials were collected; the focus of the survey, however, was an oral history project, in the context of which numerous interviews were conducted and documented with eyewitnesses or people who had provided information.

The theory and method handbook "Music and Migration", which was published in July, is dedicated to the manifold aspects, phenomena, interactions and perspectives in the research field between music and migration in 16 thematic complexes.

Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, a graduate of the Department of Musicology at the Mozarteum University, was recently honoured with the Award of Excellence for her dissertation on "Music, culture and cultural activities in the special camps of the Soviet occupying power 1945 - 1950 in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR". Congratulations!

The annual conference of the Austrian Society for Musicology will take place at the Mozarteum University from 17-19 October 2024. It will focus on and discuss music-related phenomena that are related to ideas of democracy and democratic principles.

Music and Sound Beyond the Human: This conference aims to contribute to this ongoing development, and to put special emphasis on the ethical and political dimensions that come into play in regard of other-than-human creativity and aesthetics. Submissions from all musicological (sub-)disciplines are welcome, as well as from the music-related domains in neighboring scholarly and scientific disciplines and in interdisciplinary fields like human-animal studies, critical animal studies, critical plant studies, multispecies ethnography, and AI music studies.

The handbook compiled by the inter-university research initiative ‘Music and Migration’ Wolfgang Gratzer / Nils Grosch / Ulrike Präger / Susanne Scheiblhofer (eds.), ‘The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration: Methodologies and Theories’, Routledge 2024 has just been nominated for the prestigious 2025 Award of the American Musicological Society.

Yvonne Wasserloos, university professor of musicology, has been awarded the International Grand Prize for Science & Research (worth €12,000) by the Cultural Fund of the City of Salzburg for her outstanding achievements as a researcher, including her work on ‘Music and Power – Dimension and Context’ and her research on the social, political and cultural significance of music – especially in connection with democracy and the culture of remembrance. Congratulations!

Leonor Dill received an Award of Excellence for her dissertation entitled ‘Schubert's Metamorphoses. C.G. Jung's Archetype Theory as a Basis for Musical Analysis – An Investigation of the Creative Process’. Congratulations!

2025 offers countless opportunities to look back on the past 80 years. The Second World War ended in Europe on 8 May 1945 with “Liberation Day,” marked by Germany’s unconditional surrender and the final collapse of the Nazi regime. In the months leading up to this, Allied forces had liberated the concentration camps.

News … Home News Four directing projects on the theme of realism Directing projects on the theme of realism 04.03.2022 Drama production © Fankofilm Since the establishment of theater as a bourgeois art form in the 19th century, numerous authors and theater makers have formulated the demand to penetrate social reality with the means of art and to bring it to view in its contradictions. In the winter semester 2021/22, directing students will work with classical and contemporary drama texts, which they will set in relation to the social and political reality of our present. The four productions were created in collaboration with students of the Department of Acting, Directing & Applied Theatre - Thomas Bernhard Institute and the  Department of Scenography. The four theater texts negotiate co-conflicts arising from the collision of the individual striving for freedom, happiness, and self-realization with the norms and limitations of the historical situation and the existing social order. The central themes of the works include the social inequality of gender relations, the discomfort generated by sexuality and its social standardization, the class differences that have not been overcome despite universal claims to equality, and the global crises generated by the capitalist way of life. © Fankofilm Casimir and Caroline or Youth without … by Ödön von Horváth Directed by Marion Hélène Weber  Stage and Costume Design: Carla Schwering With: Annalisa Hohl, Juliette Larat, Lukas Vogelsang, Benjamin Viziotis, Rachid Zinaladin " My generation is known to be very suspicious and imagines that it has no illusions . In any case, it has significantly less than the one that led us towards glorious times."  (Ödön von Horváth) A generation that has been promised that everything will always be better goes to the Oktoberfest. Five young people in search of joy, friends, and freedom. And for the moment when the world stands still for a brief moment. More © Fankofilm Three sisters by Anton Chekhov, German by Peter Urban Directed by: Lea Oltmanns  Stage and costume: Selina Nowak Sound: Alexander Bauer  With: Carolina Braun, Marie Eick-Kerssenbrock, Linda Kummer, Martin Petzenhammer, Imke Siebert "Just laugh, the migratory birds, the cranes for example, fly and fly, and whatever thoughts they may have, sublime or small, they will continue to fly and not know to what and where. They fly and will fly, whatever philosophers may appear among them; let them philosophize as much as they like, if only they can fly." (Anton Chekhov) More © Fankofilm Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, German by Peter Zadek and Gottfried Greiffenhagen Director: Till Ernecke Stage design: Wanda Stigler Costume design: Christina Winkler With: Daria Ivanova, Carl Herten, Philippa Fee Rupperti, Tristan Taubert, Darios Vaysi "Yes, courage. If you had that. Then maybe you could live. Despite everything." -Hedda Gabler- More © Fankofilm Two poor polish speaking Romanians by Dorota Masłowska, German by Olaf Kühl Director/Video: Alek Niemiro Stage/Costume/Video: Selina Schweiger Music: Tom Gatza With: Esther Berkel, Maren Solty, Mila Suttree, Alexander Smirzitz Drunk, ragged and completely unpredictable, two poor, Polish-speaking Romanians stagger through the Polish province.in a night filled with drugs, alcohol and dreams, between colorful delirium and painful slumps in reality, Parcha and Dschina search for a way to Warsaw, encountering lost figures from the social reality of contemporary Poland. A post-socialist road movie trip with cold turkey. More Dates Premiere: March 4 , 2022, from 4:00 p.m. 2nd performance: March 5, 2022, from 4:00 p.m. Theater im KunstQuartier

News … Home News Perpetuum - Fits just once again Perpetuum - Fits just once again 25.03.2022 Drama production © Jannik Görger Because one like the other always has to do with this coming, this arrival, which is also a departure with this event - birth and death, encounter, salvation. That which always happens differently. Elsewhere than where I am, but not far from it: in the proximity of the approaching. (from: Jean-Luc Nancy  "The fragile skin of the world") The body project  "Passt mal wieder" of the 3rd year acting class of the Mozarteum University Salzburg deals with beginnings. Each performer chooses his or her own beginning, the group records, repeats and transforms. 10 performers stand in the middle before the beginning. Where is the end or is THAT the beginning again?  Body project of the 3rd year acting at the Thomas Bernhard Institute Staging mirjam Klebel & Julia Schwarzbach   Dates Premiere March 25, 2022 at 8 p.m. Further performance: March 26, 2022 at 8 p.m Contributors Choreography and Performance Esther Berkel, Marie Eick-Kerssenbrock, Jonin Herzig, Annalisa Hohl, Juliette Larat, Mila Suttree, Martin Petzenhammer, Alexander Smirzitz, Benjamin Vizotis 

This winter semester, directing students at the Thomas Bernhard Institute are working together with acting students from three different years and in cooperation with scenography students to develop productions based on an examination of theatre texts from antiquity.