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News Research Event Study Day focusing on Lieder written by German-speaking women composers

On 13 May, from 10.00 to 16.00, the Chamber Music Hall will be the venue for a public study day led by Prof. Knut Schoch, dedicated to the song works of German-speaking women composers, with lectures, discussions and musical performances.

Programme

10:00
Welcome, followed by a lecture by Prof. Dr Susanne Rode-Breymann (NUM Nuremberg)
Communicating and collaborating in a culture of the sung word

11:00
Lecture by Prof. Dr Gundela Bobeth (Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf)
Burning entrails and scorched hearts: Musical immersion in the Lieder of Josephine Lang

12:00
Lunch concert on the fortepiano (with students)
Only those who know longing. Lied by German women composers of the Romantic period

Lunch break

13:30
Lecture by Dr Annette Oppermann (Henle-Verlag Munich)
Variations and gaps in the tradition - on the edition of Fanny Hensel's Lieder

14:30 Panel discussion and Q&A session on the topic
Edition and reception. Women composers between representation and perception

Chair: Prof Knut Schoch


The event is part of "her*hits", a major German-Austrian cooperation project that aims to establish a permanent and sustainable repertoire of outstanding songs by female composers in music academies and concert halls.

her*hits: Female song composers. Sought, heard, celebrated

In recent years, songs by female composers have increasingly attracted the attention of music practitioners and researchers. Time and again, female composers and their works are 'rediscovered' and then relegated to the background. This is where her*hits comes in, with the aim of establishing a permanent and sustainable repertoire of outstanding songs by women composers in music academies and concert halls. But what are "outstanding" songs? The work of discovery must also be critically examined - after all, aspects of sovereignty of interpretation, power and historiography play a role here.

The major German-Austrian cooperation project will take place in the summer semester of 2025, involving the song classes of the conservatories in Hanover, Cologne, Nuremberg, Graz and Salzburg as well as the International Hugo Wolff Academy. The project is based on a close interdisciplinary collaboration with Junior Professor Dr Maria Behrendt, Head of the Research Centre for Music and Gender at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (HMTM Hanover) and Professor Dr Susanne Rode-Breymann, Visiting Professor for Music-Specific Gender Research and Artistic Research in the Top Professorships Programme of the Hightech Agenda Bayern at the Nuremberg University of Music (Nuremberg University of Music).