First International Symposium « Maria Szymanowska and her times»
30 September - The Polish Historic and Literary Society in Paris, 1 October - The Polish Academy of Sciences' Research Center in Paris
under the patronage of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
The participants and the titles of their talks
- Irena Poniatowska (The F.Chopin Institute, Warsaw) : Maria Szymanowska, grande dame de la musique polonaise
- Jean Pierre Armengaud (The University of Evry) : Le style et le toucher pianistique de Maria Szymanowska
- Anna Czarnocka (The Polish Historic and Literary Society in Paris) : Maria Szymanowska et la Société Historique et Littéraire Polonaise
- Adam Gałkowski (The University of Warsaw) : La Famille Wolowski, ses origines, son histoire
- Elena Grechanaya (The University of Orléans) : La sociabilité russe à l'époque de Maria Szymanowska
- Florence Launay (Mannheim) : Sophie Gail (1775-1819), compositrice sous l'Empire et la Restauration
- Maria Rose van Epenhuysen The City University of New York) : Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836), a Woman of the Revolution
- Ewa Talma-Davous (Paris) : Maria Szymanowska et Pierre Baillot, une amitié musicale
- Maja Trochimczyk (Los Angeles) : On Genius and the Virtues of “Sense and Sensibility” in the Image of Maria Szymanowska
- Benjamin Vogel (Swedish Society for Musicology) : The pianoforte of Maria Szymanowska
Moderator
Elisabeth Zapolska-Chapelle (The Maria Szymanowska Society, Paris)
Program of the Symposium
An account of the Symposium in the media:
The texts of the Symposium have been published in the 2012 (Vol.XIV) Annual Journal of the PAS Research Centre in Paris.