„Franz Liszt's Complete Writings and Their Digital Edition“

The conference will take place at the Saarländisches Staatstheater and the Hochschule für Musik Saar. It will begin on Friday, October 24, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. in the Upper Foyer of the Saarländisches Staatstheater with a public presentation of the new digital edition of Franz Liszt's writings. The event is free of charge.

At 7:30 p.m., Prof. Dr. David Trippett from the University of Cambridge will give a public lecture in the auditorium of the Saar College of Music on the topic: “Liszt's Italian Opera Sardanapalo: the story of a rescue.”

The DFG project for the digital edition of Franz Liszt's writings is a collaboration between the Hochschule für Musik Saar, Saarland University, Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Heidelberg University, and Regensburg University.

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Program Friday, October 24, 2025

Saarland State Theater, Upper Foyer

• 2:00–2:15 p.m.
  Welcome
• 2:15–3:15 p.m.
  Matthias Bremm, Thomas Burch, Claudia Bamberg (Trier): “Franz Liszt's writings online: The new digital edition”
• 3:15–4:15 p.m.
  Christof Schöch (Trier): “Distant Reading Liszt – An exploratory, quantitative approach to the corpus of the Liszt Writings Digital Project”
• 4:15–4:30 p.m.
  Coffee break
• 4:30–5:30 p.m.
  Cécile Reynaud (Paris): “Benvenuto Cellini by Berlioz in Weimar”
• 5:45–7:30 p.m.
  Evening break
• Evening lecture: Saar University of Music, auditorium
  7:30–8:30 p.m.
  David Trippett (Cambridge): “Liszt’s Italian Opera Sardanapalo: the story of a rescue”

Program Saturday, October 25, 2025

Saar College of Music, Auditorium

• 9:30–10:15 a.m.
  Máté Cselényi (Budapest): “Hungarian Music and the Writings of Franz Liszt”
• 10:15–11:00 a.m.
  Ágnes Watzatka (Budapest): “New Thoughts on Liszt's Fragment On Future Church Music”
• 11:00–11:15 a.m.
  Coffee break
• 11:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
  Ulrike Roesler (Weimar): “‘Declamationspomp’ or ‘Music Without Notes’: The Reception of Liszt as a Writer in the Music Journalism of His Time”
• 12:00–12:45 p.m.
  Evelyn Kreb (Saarbrücken): “The portrayal of George Sand in Franz Liszt's monograph on Chopin”
• 12:45–2:30 p.m.
  Lunch break
• 2:30–3:15 p.m.
  Nicolas Dufetel (Paris): “The correspondence and writings of the Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein: new Lisztian and religious perspectives”
• 3:15–4:00 p.m.
  Dorothea Redepenning (Heidelberg): “Franz Liszt's Weimar program essay ‘Berlioz and his Harold Symphony’”
• 4:00–4:15 p.m.
  Coffee break
• 4:15–5:00 p.m.
  Olivia Varwig (Würzburg): “Robert Schumann's Poetic World: Motto Collection and Neue Zeitschrift für Musik at the Center of the New Networked Digital Edition”
• 5:00–5:45 p.m.
  Rainer Kleinertz (Saarbrücken): “Liszt's Analysis of Wagner's Tannhäuser Overture”
• 5:45–6:00 p.m.
  Closing remarks