The Schedule

Welcome

Richard Langham Smith & James Lipka

SESSION 1

‘Franckian Perspectives’.

Moderator: François de Médicis (Professeur titulaire en musicologie, Université de Montréal)

Giselle Lee (Doctorante, University of Durham)

‘Franck’s Legacy: The Development of French Cyclic Form since 1890’.

James Lipka (Doctorant Royal College of Music)

‘Franck’s early piano works: documenting the implicit’

Tadhg Sauvey (University of Cambridge, Doctoral Candidate)

‘Franck as musicien officiel : Les Béatitudes at International Festivals 1878–1910’.

Questions and Lunch

Richard Langham Smith in conversation (Royal College of Music, London) with Emily Kilpatrick (Royal Academy of Music, London)

'Towards the Franck settings of Victor Hugo'

CONCERT by students of Vocal Department centred on the César Franck settings of Victor Hugo.

KEYNOTE LECTURE

François de Médicis (Professeur titulaire en musicologie, Université de Montréal)

‘Searching for the Quintessential Franck: French Reception and Stylistic Affiliations of the Piano Quintet in f minor.'

Respondent: Richard Langham Smith (Research Professor, Royal College of Music).

Short Break

Lecture and Masterclass by Mme. Marie-Louise Langlais. (Organiste titulaire de l’Église de Sainte-Clotilde, Paris; Docteur es lettres, Sorbonne Paris).

‘Some Mysteries in the Organ Works of César Franck’

Moderator: David Graham.

Conference Dinner: optional, payment to be confirmed

Venue to be announced

Étienne Jardin

Introduction to the activities of the Palazetto Bru-Zane

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Joël-Marie Fauquet

Recorded interview with James Lipka and Violeta Casero, recorded in Bordeaux, August 2022. (In French with English subtitles)

SESSION 2

‘Franckian Perspectives’

Moderator: Richard Langham Smith (Professor at Royal College of Music, London)

Roland Van der Hoeven (Maître des conferences, Université de Liège)

Étienne Jardin (Musicologue, Palazetto Bru-Zane)

‘César Franck à l’Exposition universelle de 1878’

Coffee Break

SESSION 3

‘New discoveries and Franck’s reception’

Moderator: Simon Trezise (Associate Professor, (retired 1 October 2021), Trinity College, Dublin)

Heribert Koch (Professor of Piano performance, Musikhochschule Münster)

‘Farewell and Departure: Deux mélodies ‘À félicité’

Robert James Stove (Organist and Musicologist, author of César Franck, his Life and Times, 2012)

‘His Master’s Voice: Franck on Recordings’

Andrew McCrea (Organist and lecturer, RCM)

‘The reception of Franck’s organ music in Britain to around 1960’

Lunch Break

SESSION 4

‘Reputation and Influence’

Moderator: James Lipka

Simon Trezise (Emeritus Professor Trinity College, Dublin)

‘César Franck’s Symphony in Performance and its fall from Grace’

Robert Scholl (RAM and University of West London)

‘César Franck, the Choral and its Legacy’

Faith Sophie Beatrice Thompson (RNCM Doctoral student)

‘Gabriel Pierné, Franckiste?’

1530 André Short (RCM Doctoral student)

‘From La Bande à Franck to Composer in her own right: Augusta Holmès’s Lutèce and post-Conservatoire works’.

SESSION 5

‘Lasting Perceptions’

Moderator: Richard Langham Smith (Professor at Royal College of Muisc

Tatiana Aráez-Santiago (Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher, Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales)

‘César Franck in Spain through the writings of Joaquín Turina’

Christiane Strucken-Paland (President of Association of César Franck)

‘Pianistic and organistic elements in the music of César Franck’

Asher Ian Armstrong (University of Arkansas)

‘Exploring Catholic and Erotic Performance Interpretations in the Prelude, Chorale and Fugue’

Lunch Break

PIANO MASTERCLASS with Danny Driver (Professor of Piano, Royal College of Music)

ROUNDTABLE & CONCLUSION

(Richard Langham Smith, François de Médicis, James Lipka & TBA)

RECITAL

Anna Osvyanikova and Tal Walker

Introduction to Mathieu Crickboom by Anna Osvyanikova

Works by César Franck and Mathieu Crickboom