CFP (reminder): Clementi and the British Musical Scene: 1780-1830, Lucca, Nov 2015

Clementi and the British Musical Scene: 1780-1830
24-26 November 2015
COMPLESSO MONUMENTALE DI SAN MICHELETTO - Lucca

http://www.luigiboccherini.org/clementiconf.html

All proposals should be submitted by email no later than ***Sunday 12 April 2015*** to <conferences -at-luigiboccherini.org>.

organized by
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini (Lucca)
In collaboration with Ad Parnassum Journal and the Italian National Edition of Muzio Clementi’s Complete Works

 Major themes are suggested below, but other topics are also welcome:

· Contemporary British music retail and instrument manufacturing
· The music-publishing trade in Britain and Europe
· The rise of performing and training institutions in early-nineteenth-century Britain
· The rise of the piano and the expanding market for pedagogical works
· Changes in Keyboard Performance Styles
· The piano compositions of Clementi and his British-based contemporaries
· British symphonic music: symphonies by Clementi, Samuel Wesley, Cipriani Potter, William Sterndale Bennett and others
· The existence of an ‘English’ concerto tradition: Jan Ladislav Dussek, Johann Baptist Cramer, William Sterndale Bennett, John Field and others
· The revival of ‘early’ music in nineteenth-century Britain: Clementi, Samuel Wesley, William Sterndale Bennett and others

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

· Roberto Illiano, Lucca; Fulvia Morabito, Lucca; David Rowland, Milton Keynes, UK; Luca Lévi Sala, Poitiers; Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald, Warwickshire, UK

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

· Simone McVeigh (Goldsmiths College, London)
· Leon Plantinga (Yale University, New Haven, CT)

The official languages of the conference are English, French and Italian. Papers selected at the conference will be published in a miscellaneous volume.
Papers are limited to twenty minutes in length, allowing time for questions and discussion. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words and one page of biography.
For any additional information, please contact:

Dr. Roberto Illiano, conferences -at- luigiboccherini.org
http://www.luigiboccherini.org/clementiconf.html