Programme of the Conference 'Through the Prism of Chopin: Women, Music, and Social Change in the Long Nineteenth Century' 3-5 December 2025, Warsaw, Poland

 These papers and the conference promise to be intensely interesting.

Programme of the Conference 

'Through the Prism of Chopin: Women, Music, and Social Change in the Long Nineteenth Century'

3 December

^{10.00–11.00 Keynote lecture}
Henrike Rost, Writing women’s history with nineteenth-century friendship albums

_{11.00–12.00}
Fernanda Vera Malhue, The musical and cultural imaginary in Isidora Zegers’s ‘album amicorum’

Magdalena Oliferko-Storck, The Schumann-Album as an anthropological study of the culture of gift exchange

_{12.00–12.30 coffee break}

^{12.30–14.00}
Christine Elizabeth Wisch, ‘A Philharmonic Woman’: negotiating music, gender, and performance in mid-nineteenth-century Spanish salons and associations

Anja Bunzel, Nineteenth-century salon culture and hidden women’s autobiography in Johanna Kinkel’s ‘Friedrich Chopin als Komponist’

Dylan Henderson, ‘A fragrance of the freshest flowers’: Chopin, Pleyel and the soprani sfogati

_{14.00–15.00 lunch break}

_{15.00–16.00}
Virginia Sánchez Rodríguez, Marie Mennessier-Nodier, a female amateur musician in the age of Chopin

Paulina Andrade Schnettler, ‘A profession that protects them from poverty and corruption…’: women, musical work and authorial identity in 19th-century Chile

4 December

_{9.00–10.00 Keynote lecture}
Katarzyna Nadana-Sokołowska, Female singers in George Sand’s novels

_{10.00–11.00}
Anne Teresa Marcoline, Attentive listening, care, and social change in George Sand’s musical fiction

Joe Davies, Jane Wilhelmina Stirling as ‘Chopin’s widow’

_{11.00–11.30 coffee break}

_{11.30–13.00}
Cristina Pascu, Marcelina Czartoryska and the afterlife of Chopin’s style: informal mediation, gendered authority, and the formation of a performance tradition

Laura Stokes, Jenny Lind and Otto Goldschmidt’s transcriptions of Chopin’s mazurkas for the concert hall

Laure Schnapper, Berthe Marx-Goldschmidt (1857–1925), first female pianist to perform Chopin’s complete Preludes and Etudes

_{13.00–14.00 lunch break}

_{14.00–15.00}
Karolina Kolinek-Siechowicz, Against the excesses of Romanticism: Chopin’s legacy as a source of Wanda Landowska’s search for authenticity

Tomasz Fatalski, ‘She is one of the best pianists we have ever heard’: Jadwiga Brzowska-Méjan and her musical career

_{15.00–15.30 coffee break}

_{15.30–17.00}
Jérôme Dorival, Hélène de Montgeroult

Renata Bittencourt de Assis Pereira, Marie Jaëll and Camille Erard: a chronicle of two Alsatian women in the Parisian musical scenario in the 19th century

Katarzyna Hajduk, In search of the identity of sound and emotion – Marie Jaëll’s innovative method

5 December

_{9.00–10.00 Keynote lecture}
Candace Bailey, Chopin as signifier of social change in the Southern United States

_{10.00–11.30}
Dorothea Hilzinger & Christine Hoppe, Staging gender in 19th-century string quartets: exploring female composers and performers

Seonhwa Lee, Emilie Mayer’s cello sonatas: creativity and reception in 19th-century Berlin

Katarzyna Bartos, Sounds without taboo – analysis and interpretation of selected violin sonatas by 19th-century female composers

_{11.30–12.00 coffee break}

_{12.00–13.00}
Floris Meens, Chopin in the Netherlands during the long nineteenth century

Kwen-Yin Li, Effeminate Chopin in the eye of effeminate Orient

_{13.00–14.00 lunch break}

_{14.00–15.30}
Karol Rzepecki, Musical activity of women in 19th-century Lublin – a source study

Katarzyna Naliwajek, Long Nineteenth Century, Chopin’s tradition and its forced discontinuation – Jewish female pianist victims of Nazism

Tiziana Palandrani, ‘Votre délicieuse surprise’: an unpublished letter to Chopin

The conference is open to the public. No conference fee is required from non-presenting participants.