Children’s Music in the Nineteenth Century

Programme

Children Singing 

Timothy F. Coombes – Opera’s Innocent Others: The Children’s Chorus in Late Nineteenth-Century France 

Ilaria Contesotto – Voices in Transition: The Evolution and Challenges of Children’s Professional Singing in the Nineteenth Century Repertoire 

Roberta De Piccoli – Il Risorgimento e l’infanzia: autori, testi, musiche 

Federico Terzi – Musica e infanzia nell’Ottocento italiano: il caso dell’organo

Opera and Operetta 

Ross Purves – Music Published by, and for, Schoolteachers: The Case of Juvenile, School or Children’s Operetta in Britain in the Second Half of the Long Nineteenth Century 

Jan Dewilde – Charles Miry (1823-1899): An Opera Composer who Composed for Children 

Juan Carlos Poveda Viera – The Study of the Composer’s Childhoods as a Source of Knowledge

Jane Sylvester – Childlike Realities: Contrasts of Adolescence and Adulthood in Puccini’s Verismo Operas 

Eleonora Savvidou – Awoken by Fairies: Childhood Re-considered through the ‘Opening Chorus’ from the 1886 Production of «Alice in Wonderland» 

Christina Vergadou – ‘Lullaby in Opera’: Exploring the Issue through the Paradigm of Two Greek Operas

Childhood Imagery in Music 

Franziska Weigert – Childhood as Paradise: The Construction of Romantic Childhood in German Lullabies 

Vasilisa Aleksandrova – Musical Portrait of 19th-Century Childhood in Modest Musorgsky’s Unfinished Vocal Sycle «At the Dacha»

Dario De Cicco – From the ‘Spoken’ Voice to the ‘Sung’ One: The Vocal Repertoires of Rosa Agazzi (1866-1950)

Angela Annese – Un pianoforte per il ‘mondo piccino’: Giovanni Rinaldi compositore per l’infanzia 

Eva-Maria de Oliveira Pinto – «Neue Kinderszenen»: Narrative Piano-Cycles for Children in the Schumann Tradition

Keynote Speaker 

Roe-Min Kok (McGill University), Crafting the Symbolic Child

Music Education and Pedagogy (i) 

Candace Bailey – Children Teaching Children: Musicking in the Ouseley Family in the 1820s 

Brian C. Thompson – Music for the Empire’s Children: Victorian Culture and Italian Music 

Emma Arthur – «Fairies and Music, Gipsies and Flowers»: Music Pedagogy and Performance in the Convent School 17.30-19.00

Music Education and Pedagogy (ii) 

Marija Benić Zovko – Between Art and Education: Croatian Children’s Songs for Elementary Schools in the Last Decades of the Long 19th Century 

Despoina Afthentopoulou – For Greek Children: Piano Pieces and School Songs (19th and the early 20th Century) 

George Charonitis – Early Childhood Musical Play in 19th-Century Greece: A Historical-Critical Approach

Music Education and Pedagogy (iii) 

Michał Bruliński – Children and the Piano: Educational Pathways in Early 19th-Century Polish Culture 

Asel Akbanova – « Aux petits enfants » : César Franck pédagogue et compositeur pour la jeunesse 

Social Issues

Clarisse Azéma – « Développer le sens esthétique de la jeunesse » : le concert pour enfants en France de 1880 à 1914 

Magdalena Oliferko-Storck – «Le jeune Liszt» – Marketing Strategy or Jungian ‘Power Complex’? 

Antonietta Loffredo – Un repertorio a parte 

Daniela Nuzzoli – Adolphe Hermann, l’insegnamento ai giovani violinisti e l’arte di cantare allo strumento