Guest speaker: Friederike Wißmann

This week, we will be visited by Friederike Wißmann who will give a presentation of a new edition of the works of the composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Presentation of the edition of the works of the composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold

It cannot be taken for granted that the composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold will receive a scholarly complete edition. For many decades he was not part of the canon of "Great European composers", which is also due to the fact that he composed film music.

Into the 1980s, what Theodor W. Adorno had formulated in 1932 remained virulent, in words that make one wonder today:

"If Korngold does not radically recognize all the trappings of these musical facades and start badly from the beginning, he is lost to the music that has a right to exist today." 

The edition bears witness to a somewhat different understanding of music, insofar as music from a wide variety of genres is to be evaluated as non-ideologically as possible. The Erich Wolfgang Korngold Edition should not primarily be about heroic stories and monuments, but about making the work and its characteristics accessible.

Friederike Wißmann is a professor of musicology at the Rostock University of Music and Theater. Learn more about Wißmann here (in German). 

Friederike Wißmann will be with us in person in Växjö, and It is possible to attend the seminar both from Dacke in Växjö and via zoom.

Please contact us via ims@lnu.se if you wish to attend via zoom.

Photo: 'Aurora - Connecting Senses’, Cristina Pop-Tiron & Signe Kjær Jensen