Events 2014
The second Symposium « Maria Szymanowska and her times »
The second Symposium « Maria Szymanowska and her times », under the patronage of the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, has taken place in Paris Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 April 2014 at the Scientific Centre of the PAS (74, rue Lauriston, Paris 16e).The participants and the titles of their talks:
♦ Irena Poniatowska – The F.Chopin Institute, Warsaw
Lumières et décadence de la musique de salon au XIXe siècle
♦ Karen Benedicte Busk-Jepsen – Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen
A for Amity, Admiration and Attachment. On the Neglected Contact between Maria Szymanowska and Bertel Thorvaldsen
♦ Małgorzata Celińska-Kluźniak – pianist, Musical University F.Chopin in Warsaw
♦ Halina Goldberg – Indiana University, Bloomington
The Topos of Memory in the Albums of Maria Szymanowska and Helena Szymanowska-Malewska
♦ Anna Kijas - University of Connecticut, Storrs
Szymanowska Scholarship: Ideas for Access and Discovery through Collaborative Research
♦ Maria Stolarzewicz - Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Weimar-Iena
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's connections to Maria Szymanowska and her sister Kazimiera Wołowska
♦ Maja Trochimczyk - University of Southern California, Los Angeles
History in Song: Maria Szymanowska and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz's Spiewy Historyczne
♦ Piotr Daszkiewicz - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris
Humboldt, Cuvier, Jarocki et les autres - les naturalistes et les salons artistiques au temps de Maria Szymanowska
♦ Adam Gałkowski – University of Warsaw
Femmes de talent, femmes d’action au temps de Maria Szymanowska
♦ Hubert Kowalski – University of Warsaw
Legacy of Thorvaldsen in nineteenth-century Warsaw
♦ Jerzy Miziołek – University of Warsaw
Artistic culture of Warsaw in the time of Maria Szymanowska and Frederic Chopin
♦ Benjamin Vogel – Swedish Society for Musicology, Lund
Piano – the main atraction of the Polish and Russian drawing rooms during the Maria Szymanowska time
♦ Jean-Marc Warszawski – Paris
Mutations, mouvements, évolution dans le monde de la musique au temps de Maria Szymanowska
Moderator: Elisabeth Zapolska-Chapelle (Maria Szymanowska Society, Paris)
The Symposium is organized by the Maria Szymanowska Society & the Scientific Centre of the PAS, together with their partners: Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Institute in Paris, Polish Historic and Literary Society/ Polish Library in Paris, Air Franc & KLM Global Meeting, Polish Music Information Centre & musicologie.org .
The texts of the Symposium were published in the 2014 (vol.XVI) Annual Journal of the Polish Academy of Sciences Centre in Paris.