International Seminars on New Music, Smolenice
Annual International Seminars on New Music were organized on the initiative of musicologist Peter Faltin and composers Peter Kolman and Ladislav Kupkovič at the end of 1960s. The first three years of the event, held at Smolenice castle near Bratislava in 1968-1970, attracted Stockhausen, Ligeti, Kagel, Lutosławski and other personalities to Slovakia and thus created an important platform for presentation of domestic musical production and for its confrontation with world trends. Unfortunately, the partial opening of iron curtain and the general cultural upsurge of the 1960s were frozen by tanks in 1968. Neo-stalinistic "normalization" of the early 1970s violently pushed this - and not only this - creative branch beyond the borders of permitted cultural activities. A number of composers were pushed into background, established international contacts were lost, public interest in experimenting decreased.[1]
- Editions
- 1968. Participants: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Peter Faltin, Ladislav Kupkovič, Peter Kolman, and others.
- 31 March - 4 April 1969. Participants: György Ligeti, Carl Dahlhaus, Hans-Peter Reinecke, Hans G. Helms, Diether de la Motte, Vinko Globokar, Vladimír Lébl, Quax-ensemble, Peter Faltin, Ladislav Kupkovič, Peter Kolman, Jozef Malovec, Roman Berger, Ivan Parík, and others.
- 13-17 April 1970. Participants: Mauricio Kagel, Carl Dahlhaus, Siegfried Palm, Christoph Caskel, Karlheinz Boettner, Edward H. Tarr, Michal Bristinger, Dénes Zoltai, Tibor Kneif, Jan Kapr, Ivan Parík, Milan Adamčiak, Ladislav Mokrý, Ladislav Burlas, and others.
- Literature
- Leoš Jůzl, "Smolenice 69", Hudební rozhledy, 22, 9, 1969, p 259. (Czech)
- Helga de la Motte-Haber, "Internationale Seminare fuer Neue Musik in Smolenice", Die Musikforschung, Vol. 22, No. 2, Kassel: Bärenreiter, Apr/Jun 1969, pp 215-216. (German)
- Tibor Kneif, "III. Internationale Seminare fuer Neue Musik in Smolenice", Die Musikforschung, Vol. 23, No. 4, Kassel: Bärenreiter, Oct/Dec 1970, pp 451-453. (German)
- "Organized Sound and Experiments in Slovak Music", in Anthology of Experimental Music Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe 1950-2010. (English) (German) (Slovak)
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