KOMITAS AND HIS LEGACY
October 8-10, 2019
October 8 | Assembly Hall of the Humboldt University of Berlin
Conference Opening and Welcoming Remarks
Keynote speeches
MHER NAVOYAN (Armenia) | “The Role and Significance of Komitas in the History of Armenian Culture”
THOMAS BUCHHOLZ (Germany) | “Komitas the European: Traces of European Musical Thinking and the Art of Composition in Komitas’s Works”
First Session
KOMITAS AND GERMANY
ARMENUHI DROST-ABGARYAN (Germany) | “Komitas as a Key Figure in Armenian-German Relations”
TATEVIK SHAHKULYAN (Armenia) | “Komitas’s Compositional Output during the Berlin Period”
LUSINE SAHAKYAN (Armenia) | “Richard Wagner and Archimandrite Komitas”
ANNA AREVSHATYAN (Armenia) | “The Art of Manrusum and Manuscripts in the Light of Komitas’ Studies ”
Second Session
KOMITAS AND FOLK MUSIC
ALINA PAHLEVANYAN (Armenia) | “Komitas and the Main Issues of Armenian Musical Folkloristics”
LILIT YERNJAKYAN (Armenia) | “Multilingualism and Identity in the Armenian Ashugh Tradition in the Light of Komitas’s Concepts”
TATIANA KAPLUN (Ukraine) | “The Prototype of the Warrior-Maiden in East Slavic and German Musical Traditions: A Comparative Study”
October 9 | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Main Building (Löwengebäude)
Ceremonial Hall
Third session
KOMITAS IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS (A)
KLAUS NEUMANN (Germany) | “Komitas as a Musician-Ethnographer: An Attempt at a Comparative Historiographical Classification”
MHER NAVOYAN (Armenia) | “Komitas’s Concept of the National”
TEKLA KLÜTIG (Germany), LILIT HARUTYUNYAN (Armenia) | “The Archive of the Breitkopf & Härtel Publishing House: Documents for the Study of Komitas”
HELMUT ZANDECK (Germany) | “Oskar Fleischer and Komitas”
Fourth session
KOMITAS IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS (B)
MARIA LUCIA ALIFFI (Italy) | “The Languages of Musical Terminology in Komitas’s Piano Works”
ARSEN BOBOKHYAN (Armenia) | “The Subtextual Symbolism of Komitas’s Works and the Problem of Their Dating”
LEVON CHUGASZYAN (Armenia) | “Komitas in Visual Arts”
October 10 | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Main Building (Löwengebäude)
Ceremonial Hall
Fifth session
KOMITAS AND MEDIEVAL MUSIC
MARINA EGOROVA (Russia) | “The Rite of Foot Washing in Medieval Musical Culture: Textology vs. Hermeneutics (On the Perspectives of Comparative Research)”
ASTGHIK MUSHEGHYAN (Armenia) | “Komitas’ Notations of Spiritual Taghs ”
NANE MISAKYAN (Armenia) | “The Armenian Mode Ben dza and the Medieval Sequence Dies Irae”
ARUSYAK TAMRAZYAN (Armenia) | “Komitas’s Manuscriptological and Neumatic Studies (Another Reconsideration)”
GAYANE AMIRAGHYAN (Armenia) | “One of the Principles of Komitas’s Method of Mode Analysis (Based on the Examples of the Etchmiadzin and New Jugha Traditions of Armenian Sacred Chant)”
Sixth session
ART IN THE PERIOD OF REPRESSION
ELKE HARTMANN (Germany) | “Komitas and the Life of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire”
RITA SOULAHIAN KUYUMJIAN (Canada) | “Creation and Mourning”