The conference will be held online (on Zoom).

The conference-festival on Beethoven’s keyboard music and its historically informed performing practice will take place as part of the celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth. The lectures will focus on three main topics:

• philology (examination of printed editions, manuscripts, sketches)
• context (organology, contemporary reception, publishing market)
• and most importantly, contemporary performing practice (relationship between notation and performing practice, dynamics, pedalling, metronome marks, rhythmic flexibility, embellishments, improvisation, etc.).

Among the speakers:
Tom Beghin (Orpheus Institute, Gent)
Clive Brown (professor emeritus, University of Leeds)
Barry Cooper (University of Manchester)
Michael Ladenburger (former head of the museum and custodian of the collections, Beethoven-Haus, Bonn)
Christine Siegert (Beethoven-Archiv, Bonn)

Call for Papers
The Call for Papers of the conference is closed.
The programme is now fixed.

Further Information
The conference will be accompanied by two concerts, live streamed on the CSI website .
On 4 November 2020, 20:30 (CET), Olga Pashchenko will give a fortepiano recital with works by Beethoven.
On 5 November 2020, 20:30 (CET), Ensemble Zefiro & Leonardo Miucci will play works for winds and piano by Beethoven and Mozart.

The publication of the proceedings will follow soon after the conference.

The conference will be preceded by two masterclasses with Alfredo Bernardini and Olga Pashchenko. For details on the musical programme of the masterclasses please visit the CSI website.

Conference report on the website of the Schweizer Musikzeitung (22/12/2020).

Picture: L. van Beethoven, Piano Sonata op. 110, Adagio ma non troppo - with the kind permission of Beethoven-Haus Bonn (Sammlung H. C. Bodmer, HCB Boh 2/42)