Mittwoch, 27. November, 16:00 Uhr – Freitag, 29. November, 18 Uhr – Institut für Musikwissenschaft
The Symposium Theme
In the years following the First World War modern music scholarship emerged from a moment of intellectual foment, scientific revolution, and social crisis, together converging to generate multiple movements of modernism in the arts. It is the goal of this symposium to bring together diverse approaches to the intellectual history of music scholarship. From the first model proposed by Guido Adler in 1885 to an international field of collaboration across the humanities and sciences, the early twentieth century—especially the interwar period—was critical for the transformation of music scholarship in Central Europe. The modernist turn in the arts, for example the aesthetic realignments presaged by the Wiener Moderne in the early decades of the twentieth century, intersected with technological paradigm shifts, for example, the emergence of the electronic microphone in ca. 1925. Vienna played a particularly vital role in the new modernist formations during the interwar period, notably also because of the emigration of scholars and schools of musical thought to the United States.
A wide range of approaches to the symposium theme will be presented (see Programme and Book of Abstracts below).
