Conference 2019

KOMITAS AND HIS LEGACY
International Conference
on the occasion of Komitas Vardapet’s 150th birthday
8-10 October, 2019
Berlin – Halle

Organized by:
Komitas Museum-Institute
Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in the Federal Republic of Germany
Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Armenia
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

Sponsored by:
Ardshinbank

Organizing Comitee:
H.E. Ashot Smbatyan
Nikolay Kostandyan
Mher Navoyan (Chair)
Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan
Meliné Pehlivanian
Anna Arevshatyan
Lilit Yernjakyan
Lusine Sahakyan
Tatevik Shakhkulyan
Gayane Amiraghyan
Lilit Harutyunyan
Nane Misakyan

8 October
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Department of Musicology and Media Studies
Am Kupfergraben 5, 10117 Berlin

09:00-09:30
Laying of flowers at the memorial desk of Komitas

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ceremonial Hall
Luisenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin

09:30-10:00
REGISTRATION

10:00-10:30
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE

Greeting Speeches
Prof. Dr. SABINE KUNST, President of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

H.E. ASHOT SMBATYAN, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia in the Federal Republic of Germany

Dr. ARAYIK HARUTYUNYAN, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Armenia

Prof. Dr. SEBASTIAN KLOTZ, Professor of Transcultural Musicology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Dr. NIKOLAY KOSTANDYAN, Director of Komitas Museum-Institute

10:30-11:15
KEYNOTE SPEECHES

Komitas’s Role and Significance in the History of Armenian Culture (E)
Prof. Dr. MHER NAVOYAN (Armenia)

Komitas as a European: Traces of European Musical Thinking and Art of Composition in his Selected Works (G)
Prof. Dr. THOMAS BUCHHOLZ (Germany)

11:15-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-13:30
FIRST SESSION
KOMITAS AND GERMANY

Komitas and his Role in Armenian-German Relations (G)
Prof. Dr. ARMENUHI DROST-ABGARJAN (Germany)

Komitas’s Berlin Period of Creation (E)
Dr. TATEVIK SHAKHKULYAN (Armenia)

Richard Wagner and Komitas Vardapet (E)
Dr. LUSINE SAHAKYAN (Armenia)

The Art and the Books of Manrusum in the Light of Komitas’s Studies (E)
Prof. Dr. ANNA AREVSHATYAN (Armenia)

13:30-15:00
Lunch break

15:00-17:00
SECOND SESSION
KOMITAS AND MUSIC FOLKLORE

Komitas and the Problems of Armenian Music Folkloristics (A)
Prof. Dr. ALINA PAHLEVANYAN (Armenia)

Multilingualism and Identity in Armenian Bardic Tradition in the Light of Komitas’s Conceptions (E)
Prof. Dr. LILIT YERNJAKYAN (Armenia)

Komitas’s Transcription of the Song Mšec‘oc‘ bingyol (A)
Dr. MARIANNA TIGRANYAN (Armenia)

Archetype of a Maiden Warrior in Eastern Slavonic and German Musical Tradition in their Comparative Characteristics (E)
Dr. TETIANA KAPLUN (Ukraine)

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Otto-Braun Hall
Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin

18:30-19:00
OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION
Greeting speech
Dr. h.c. BARBARA SCHNEIDER-KEMPF, General Director of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

INTRODUCTION TO THE EXHIBITION
MELINE PEHLIVANIAN, Curator of the Exhibition
SILVINA DER-MEGUERDITCHIAN, Designer of the Exhibition

9 October
Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Aula / Löwengebäude
Universitätsplatz 11, 06108 Halle (Saale)

09:30-11:30
Arrival from Berlin in Halle

11:30-12:00
GREETING SPEECHES
Prof. Dr. KLAUS NÄUMANN (Professor of Ethnomusicology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Dr. Prof. CLAUDE MUTAFIAN (France)

12:00-14:00
THIRD SESSION
KOMITAS IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RELATIONS (I)

Komitas as an Ethnomusicologist: an Attempt to Comparative Scientific and Historical Classification (G)
Prof. Dr. KLAUS NÄUMANN (Germany)

Concept of National in Komitas’s Perception (E)
Prof. Dr. MHER NAVOYAN (Armenia)

The Archive of Breitkopf & Härtel Publishing House: Documents for Komitas-Research (G)
Dr. THEKLA KLUTTIG (Germany)
Dr. LILIT HARUTYUNYAN (Armenia)

Oskar Fleischer and Komitas (G)
HELMUT SANDECK (Germany)

14:00 – 15:30
Lunch break

15:30-17:30
FOURTH SESSION
KOMITAS IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RELATIONS (II)

The Languages of Musical Terms in Komitas’s Piano Works (E)
MARIA LUCIA ALIFFI (Italy)

Substrate Symbolism of Komitas’s Work and the Issue of its Dating (G)
Dr. ARSEN BOBOKHYAN (Armenia)

Komitas and Armenian Art (E)
Prof. Dr. LEVON CHOOKASZYAN (Armenia)

Komitas in Film Art (E)
Dr. ARTSVI BAKHCHINYAN (Armenia)

10 October
Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Aula / Löwengebäude
Universitätsplatz 11, 06108 Halle (Saale)

09:00-11:30
FIFTH SESSION
KOMITAS AND MEDIEVAL MUSIC CULTURE

The Rite of the Foot Washing in the Medieval Music Culture: Textology vs Hermeneutics (about the prospects for comparative studies) (E)
Dr. MARINA EGOROVA (Russia)

Sacred Tałs Transcribed by Komitas (A)
Dr. ASTGHIK MUSHEGHYAN (Armenia)

The Armenian Second Mode and Dies Irae Sequence (A)
NANE MISAKYAN (Armenia)

Komitas’s Manuscriptological and Neumological Studies Revisited (A)
Dr. ARUSYAK TAMRAZYAN (Armenia)

Concerning a Principle of Komitas’s Method of the Analyse of Modes (based on the example of Etchmiadzin’s and New-Julfa’s Chants of Armenian sacred music) (G)
Dr. GAYANE AMIRAGHYAN (Armenia)

11:30-12:00
Coffee break

12:00-13:00
SIXTH SESSION
THE ARTS IN THE TIME PERIOD OF REPRESSIONS

Komitas and the Armenian life in the Ottoman Empire (G)
Prof. Dr. ELKE HARTMANN (Germany)

Creation and Mourning (A)
RITA SOULAHIAN KUYUMJIAN (Canada)

13:00-14:00
SUMMARIZATION AND DISCUSSION OF PERSPECTIVES