Leuven, Alamire Foundation, 6-7 February 2025
Brussels, KBR (Royal Library of Belgium), 8 February 2025
 

 The Low Countries and Central Europe: Historiographical Paradigms in Music and the Arts, 1400-1650 

                                    Conference in memory of Lenka Hlávková (1974-2023)

Convenor: Prof Dr Antonio Chemotti, Alamire Foundation, University of Leuven

For more information on the concept, see  "Aktuelles"

Programme:
 

Thursday, 6 February (House of Polyphony, Alamire Foundation (Park Abbey, Leuven)

14.30-15.00: Welcome coffee

15.00-15.15
Bart Demuyt, Antonio Chemotti, Welcome Address and Introductory Remarks
15.15-15.30
Jan Ciglbauer, Paweł Gancarczyk, In memoriam Lenka Hlávková

Historiography (Chair: Antonio Chemotti)
 

15.30–16.00
Sarah W. Lynch (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Central Europe and the Low Countries: One Region Divided by Historiographical Tradition?

16.00–16.30
Benjamin Ory (University of Leuven / Alamire Foundation)
Gustave Reese’s Music in the Renaissance and its Historiography of Central Europe

16.30–17.00
Magdalena Kunińska (Jagiellonian University Cracow)
From the ‘Golden Age’ to the National Style. Mythologisation of the Sigismund Era in Polish Historiography, Art Historiography and Theory of Art

17.00–17.30: Coffee break
 

17.30–18.30
Concert Utopia Ensemble (House of Polyphony)
 

Friday, 7 February (House of Polyphony, Alamire Foundation (Park Abbey, Leuven)

Mobility (Chair: Nicole Schwindt)

9.30–10.00
Sonja Tröster (University of Vienna)

‘Expats’ in the Habsburg Court Chapels of the Austrian Hereditary Lands: Career
Strategies, Foreignness, and Identity

10.00–10.30
Aleksandra Lipińska (University of Cologne)

‘Coarse German and More Refined Netherlandish...’: Netherandish Artists
and Netherlandish ‘Influences’ in Polish Art History of the Renaissance

10.30–11.00
Christian Thomas Leitmeir (University of Oxford)

Final Destination: Prague. Musicians from the Low Countries in
Rudolfine Bohemia

11.00–11.30: Coffee break

From Central Europe to the Low Countries (Chair: Katelijne Schiltz)

11.30–12.00
Paul Newton-Jackson (University of Leuven / Alamire Foundation)
The Low Countries as Periphery: The Circulation of Polish Dances in
North-Western Europe

12.00–12.30
Jan Ciglbauer (Charles University Prague)
Devotio Moderna in Bohemia and the Low Countries: Ideas on Content and
Dissemination

12.30–14.30: Lunch break

The North Sea and the Baltic (Chair: Bartłomiej Gembicki)

14.30–15.00
Inga Mai Groote (University of Zurich)

Multiple Centres, Periphery, or Networks? The Historiography of ‘Central’
Musical Traditions between North Sea and the Baltic in the Early 17th Century

15.00–15.30
Agnieszka Leszczyńska (University of Warsaw)
Netherlandish Traces in the Musical Culture of Gdańsk in the Second
Half of the 16th Century: Assimilation and Transformation of Imported Patterns

15.30–16.00: Coffee break

From the Low Countries to Central Europe (Chair: Paul Newton-Jackson)

16.00–16.30
David J. Burn (University of Leuven / Alamire Foundation)
The Anonymous Missa Vulnerasti cor meum in Prague, Czech National Library 59
R5117 and Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Mus. ms. 65

16.30–17.00
Brett Kostrzewski (University of Leuven / Alamire Foundation)
Over the Alps and Back Again: The Transmission of Gaspar’s Missa O Venus bant

17.00–17.30
Bartłomiej Gembicki (Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
Josquin in Poland? DISCovering Franco-Flemish Music in Central Europe

Saturday, 9 February (Panorama Room, KBR (Royal Library of Belgium), Brussels)

Books 1 (Chair: Sarah W. Lynch)
 

10.00–10.30
Erika Supria Honisch (Stony Brook University)
Musical Miscellanies and Other Histories

10.30–11.00
Anna Cohen (Northwestern University / University of Leuven)
Illuminated Music Manuscripts in Flanders and Central Europe: A Comparative
Historiography

11.00–11.30: Coffee break
 

Books 2 (Chair: Brett Kostrzewski)
 

11.30–12.00
Paweł Gancarczyk (Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences)

The Lviv Fragments and their Repertoires: Towards Integration of European Narratives
 

12.00–12.30
Nicolò Ferrari (Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
‘The West is the Best’: The Geopolitics of Late Medieval and Early Modern Music Manuscripts

12.30–13.00: Meet the Sources: private exhibition of music sources from the KBR stacks