Dates: August 6-9, 2009
Location: York University, Toronto, Canada

This interdisciplinary conference celebrates the music of Joseph Haydn and reflects on his legacy, influence, and reception over the past two hundred years. With a prodigious output in all of the Classical era’s main genres, Haydn has been the focus of much serious scholarship throughout his life and continuing until the present day. While there is already a wealth of extant research, the opportunity still exists to consider Haydn’s music and its reception even further. This conference provides a forum for both internationally renowned Haydn scholars as well as emerging scholars to share their research in a lively and dynamic environment. As this is an interdisciplinary conference, the organizers have accepted paper proposals from a wide range of disciplines including musicology, performance practice, theatre and art history, drama, and literature.

The programme for the conference includes evening concerts featuring the Penderecki String Quartet as well as fortepianist Malcolm Bilson. There are four plenary speakers: James Webster (Goldwin Smith Professor of Music, Cornell University), Julian Rushton (Professor Emeritus, University of Leeds), Elaine Sisman (Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music, Columbia University), and Sigrid T’Hooft (dramaturg, choreographer-stage director, International Opera Foundation Eszterháza, Belgium), as well as a Roundtable, and conference paper sessions. A banquet and off-campus events are also being planned.

The Programme Committee's members are Mark Evan Bonds, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina;  Michelle Fillion, Associate Professor, University of Victoria; Dorothy de Val, Associate Professor, York University;  and Patricia Debly, Associate Professor, Brock University.

The conference organizers, Dorothy de Val (York University) and Patricia Debly (Brock University), look forward to welcoming you to this conference in August 2009.

"Celebrating Haydn: His Times and Legacy" is one of the officially sponsored special events to celebrate York University's 50th Anniversary.

The conference organizers gratefully acknowledge the generous support of our co-sponsors: York University and The Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies.

In addition, this conference has received generous funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through an "Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada" grant. 

Engraving of Joseph Haydn by Luigi Schiavonetti after 2nd version of a
portrait by Ludwig Guttenbrunn C1792 from "Grove Music Online 2/e
( Oxford Music Online at www.oxfordmusiconline.com)" (2001)
Free permission. By permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.