Beethoven@251 Conference

The Music History department’s pandemic-postponed Beethoven 250th celebration conference—now called Beethoven@251: From the Enlightenment to the Digital Age—will take place on October 22 in Morse Hall and will be available to stream for those who register. The conference, which was convened by faculty members Edgardo Salinas and Jonathan Yaeger, features seven research presentations by leading Beethoven scholars (see list below), panels, a lecture-demonstration, and a closing concert by Juilliard student ensembles.

• “Beethoven Off the Cuff,” Roger Moseley (Cornell)
• “Paratextual Beethoven,” Elaine Sisman (Columbia)
• “Late Beethoven and Perpetual Modernity,” Scott Burnham (CUNY Graduate Center)
• “Music Amid COVID: Beethoven’s Immediacy in Cyberspace,” Edgardo Salinas (Juilliard)
• “Materiality’s Late Period,” Emily Dolan (Brown)
• “Beethoven in the Stars,” Alexander Rehding (Harvard)
• “Re-living Beethoven’s French Piano: A Digital Perspective,” Tom Beghin (Orpheus Institute)

Click here for more info and to register for Beethoven@251.