On 18 October 2024, doctoral candidate Hazal Akyaz presented the current state of her research at the annual conference of the Austrian Society for Musicology 2024 at the University Mozarteum Salzburg as part of the forum ‘Junge Musikwissenschaft‘ with a poster presentation on the topic “ From ”Exhumation’ to ‘Exigency’: Historical Perspectives on the Intention behind Alessandro Parisotti's Arie Antiche and its Reception in Vocal Pedagogy’. Hazal Akyaz's music-historical research focuses not only on the historical context of the Parasotti collection, but also on its reception in vocal pedagogy from the 20th century to the present day.
In addition to her own doctoral project, Hazal presented the results of her independent research group with Cornelja Picej on ‘The Reception of Felix Woyrsch's Totentanz in Austria’ in a second poster presentation. In their joint research, Picej and Akyaz analysed some important sources on the late Romantic composer (such as the correspondence between the Upper Austrian conductor Georg Wolfgruber the Younger and the composer's son) for the first time in music studies. Having already presented her project at the conference “Zwei prägende Persönlichkeiten des Hamburger Musiklebens. Symposium on the occasion of ‘30 years of the Pfohl-Woyrsch-Gesellschaft e.V.’’’ on 20 & 21 September 2024 in Hamburg, they were now also guests at the “Young Musicologists” symposium, which was part of the overall conference.
Further information on the conference can be found here.
The doctoral programmes congratulate Hazal on her success.
