THE “LUYTHON YEAR” CONFERENCE (Preliminary Programme). Prague, 30/7-2/8-2020

The provisonal programm for the The “Luython Year” Conference is online. This event is a three-day international symposium commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of the composer and organist of Carl Luython (1557/58–1620). By the moment, the conferente there will be place in the Cardinal Beran Hall, Prague (Czech Republic) between 30 July and 2 August 2020.

PRELIMINARY TITLES AND ABSTRACTS

• Jan BAŤA (Charles University, Prague): Luython’s Missae quodlibeticae
• Jan BILWACHS (Charles University, Prague): Karl Luythons Sacrae cantiones vom Gesichtspunkt der Textvorlagen
• Václav BŮŽEK (University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice): Zwischen dem Rudolfinischen Hof und den adeligen Residenzen in den Böhmischen Ländern
• Petr DANĚK (Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art History, Prague): The Swan Song of Rudolphine Polyphony: Liber I missarum by Carolus Luython
• Marc DESMET (Université de Lyon-Université de Saint-Etienne): On the relation between structure and detail in Luython and Handl-Gallus
• Ferran ESCRIVÀ-LLORCA (Valencia International University): Sacred works by the Rudolf II Imperial Chapel composers in the Iberian World: circulation, reception and context
• Sarka FORGÁČOVÁ (Prague): Carl Luython’s Madrigals
• Markus GRASSL (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien): Luythons Instrumentalmusik im Kontext / Contextualising Luython’s instrumental music
• Erika Supria HONISCH (Stony Brook University, New York): Confessions, Anthologized: A Heartbroken Schoolteacher, a Destructive Organist, and the Promptuarii musici (Strasbourg, 1611–1617)
• Martin HORYNA (University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice): Ein Schatz-Kasten voller Clainodien, Hradec Králové (Königgrätz) 1618, ein wenig bekannter Musikdruck
• Martin KIRNBAUER (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz): Carl Luython and the «Clavicymbalum Vniversale, seu perfectum» – Finding a historical and musical context
• Vladimir MAŇAS (Masaryk University, Brno): Lamentations in the liturgy in Central Europe and especially in Moravia around 1600
• Luc PONET (Leuven University College of Arts): In organis et in discantu. The basics of a multi-cultural European organ in the early 17th century
• Alanna ROPCHOCK TIERNO (Shenandoah University): Hymns, Martyrs, and Prophets: Czech Reformation Identity in Polytextual Mass Ordinaries from the Brno Choirbooks
• Bernhold SCHMID (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, München): Carl Luythons Missa à 5 super Tityre tu patulae und seine Vorlage
• Michaela ŽÁČKOVÁ ROSSI (Association for Central European Cultural Studies, Prague): The Ennoblements Acts of the Rudolfine Musicians as an Important Biographical Source

The conference is organized by Musica Rudolphina a project of international co-operation in musicological research.

More information: http://www.bibemus.org/musicarudolphina/stranky/luython-conference_en.html