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musical interpretation: between the artistic and the scientific
paper by professor Clemens Hellsberg, violinist and long-serving president
of the executive commitee of the Vienna Philharmonic, entitled Die Wie-
ner Philharmoniker: Geschichte und Struktur, in which the author presents
some of the milestones in the extraordinarily rich history of the orchestra
and its experiences with some outstanding interpreters, devoting particu-
lar attention to some of the most important conductors of the recent past
and the contemporary era.
This is followed by a paper by Helmut Loos entitled Der Dirigent.
Anspruch und Wirkung, a presentation of certain aspects of Elias Canet-
ti’s key philosophical work Masse und Macht (1960), in which Canetti de-
scribes the role of the conductor as that of an absolute leader, an individual
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who has the power to decide about “life and death” (über Leben und Tod).
Hartmut Krones’s paper Die Aufführungslehre der Wiener Schule als histor-
ische Aufführungspraxis looks at how the performance doctrine of the Vi-
enna School pursued exactly the same goals as historically informed perfor-
mance. The Vienna-based Ukrainian musicologist Lidia Melnyk also sheds
light on the work of some of the pupils of the Vienna School in her paper
Die etwas andere „Wiener Schule“. Eduard Steuermann und seine Lemberger
Schüler. Her research focuses on three pianists from Lviv (Lwów/Lemberg)
– Jakob Gimpel, Artur Hermelin and Leopold Münzer, all of whom were
students of Schoenberg’s pianist Eduard Steuermann – and, in two cases,
on their tragic fates. In his paper Musical Interpretation – Specifics of Work-
ing with Textual Statements and Other Aspects, Viktor Velek highlights the
dualism between two types of evaluation of musical performance: written
reflection and reviews of recordings. Luba Kyanowska’s paper Die ukrai-
nische Opernsängerin Solomia Kruschelnytska in Prozess der künstlerischen
Emanzipation des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts looks at the re-
markable career of the Ukrainian soprano Solomiya Krushelnytska, who is
remembered in European musical history above all for her interpretation of
the title role in Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly. Light is shed on
a unique compositional career by the excellent Croatian researchers Vjera
Katalinić and Lucija Konfic in their paper (Vittorio Radeglia and His Ser-
enade aux Etoiles in the Modern Composers‘ Series Competition) dedicated
to the Sérénade aux étoiles by Vittorio Radeglia, a little-known composer
of Dalmatian origin. In 1913 Radeglia won first prize in the Modern Com-
posers’ Series Prize Competition organised by the Art Publication Society
12 Elias Canetti, Masse und Macht: Wesentliche Zusammenhänge zum Verständnis un-
seres Zeitalters (Hamburg: Claasen Verlag, 1960), 264.

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