Liszt and the Arts - International interdisciplinary conference in Budapest

November 18-20, 2011

HAS Institute of Musicology (auxiliary programmes also in the Old Academy of Music)

Organisers: Institute of Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Franz Liszt Memorial Museum and Research Centre of the Franz Liszt University of Music

The Programme Committee is composed of renowned university professors: Detlef Altenburg (Weimar-Jena), Rossana Dalmonte (Bologna), Márta Grabócz (Strasbourg), Mihály Szegedy-Maszák (Budapest), Tibor Tallián (Budapest).

Secretary of the conference: Mária Eckhardt (Budapest).

We are also counting on the participation of leading Liszt researchers as invited guests: Serge Gut (France), Malou Haine (Belgium), Klára Hamburger (Hungary), Rena Mueller (USA), Alan Walker (Canada).   

The aim of the conference: to bring together musicologists and researchers in various arts disciplines, to encourage research and co-operation on the following main themes:

- Liszt’s ideas on the interaction of different branches of the arts
- Liszt’s participation in the general artistic life of his time, his connections with arts movements and individual artists
- Literary and fine arts inspirations in Liszt’s music (works, ideals, structures)
- Liszt’s person and art, as the inspiration for works of art