Wednesday, May 21 | Thursday, May 22 | Friday, May 23

9.00 – 10.30 am (Chair: Nils Grosch)
Belén Vega-Pichaco and Germán Gan-Quesada (Logroño und Barcelona, ES)
Ernst Krenek and his Music in “Enigmatic” Francoist Spain

Fusako Hamao (US)
From Literature to Concert Hall: Listening to Schönberg in Early Postwar Japan

Kristin Van den Buys (Brüssel, BE)
Schönberg and Brussels in the interwar period (1919–1940)

11.00 am – 12.30 pm (Chair: Friedemann Pestel)
Frank Heidlberger (Texas, US)
“I Don’t Know Where I Belong” – Serialism and Cultural Mobility in Krenek’s Work of the 1950s

Jeff Nichols (New York, US)
Total Serialism Meets American Pragmatism in the Music of Milton Babbitt

Anton Vishio (Toronto, CA)
Krenek’s Sestina as a Narrative of Mobilities

2.30 – 4.00 pm (Chair: Sara Beimdieke)
Till Jonas Umbach (Krems, AT)
»I wish my train were homeward bound …«. Das Eisenbahnmotiv in Ernst Kreneks Ballad of the Railroads

Johan Larson Lindal (Linköping, SE)
Between Movement and Stability in Interwar Contemporary Music: The Mobility of Ernst Krenek’s Early Berlin Compositions

Florian Giering, Tommaso Graiff (Leipzig, DE)
Von »Das Nationale und die Kunst« zum »transplanted composer« und zurück zur »Lust aufs Unmögliche«: Mobilitätsparadigmen im essayistischen Werk Ernst Kreneks

4.30 – 6.00 pm (Chair: Eike Feß)
Philip Stoecker (New York, US)
“You’ve made a discovery here”: Ernst Krenek’s Influence on George Perle

Ricardo Athaide Mitidieri (São Paulo, BR)
Hans-Joachim Koellreutter and Twelve-Tone Composition in the Brazilian Context: 1937–1952

Sebastiano Gubian (Berlin, DE)
René Leibowitz und das Exil der Zwölftonkomponisten: Skizzen und Entwürfe der Fantasie Symphonique op. 39

The concept of “cultural mobility” expands our understanding of art and culture by conceiving the mobility of people in geographical, social, and cultural spaces as well as the products of their creativity within a dynamic network of relationships. Lectures at this symposium will address these topics as they relate to Ernst Krenek, Arnold Schönberg, and their contemporaries, as well as their historical, geographical, and cultural spheres of activity.

The Symposium will be streamed live on YouTube and will be available for seven days afterwards.

Cooperation Ernst-Krenek-Institut and Arnold Schönberg Center