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The Annual International Seminars on New Music in Smolenice were a yearly event held in Smolenice, Slovakia, organized by musicologist Peter Faltin and composers Peter Kolman and Ladislav Kupkovič at the end of the 1960s.
Theidea to present the Seminars in the form of an international exhibition of contemporary music dates back to 1965. However, the respective preparations were hindered by the exaggerated carefulness and lack of organizational flexibility on the part of the Slovak Composers Association. It was only after the SAV Department of Musical Science (through Peter Faltin) and the Experimental Studio of the Slovak Radio in Bratislava (headed by Peter Kolman) joined the project that it took decisive steps towards becoming a reality.
Inspired by the model of the summer courses of New Music, held in Darmstadt, Germany, the Seminars in Smolenice represented their creative Slovak counterpart. Besides concerts and thematic lectures, the programme of the seminars also included interpretation focused workshops.
During the three years of their existence, the seminars, held at Smolenice castle near Bratislava in 1968-1970, attracted Stockhausen, Ligeti, Kagel, Lutosławski and other personalities to Slovakia, thus creating an important platform for the presentation of the domestic musical production and its confrontation with world trends.
However, the partial opening of the iron curtain and the general cultural upsurge of the 1960s was frozen by the arrival of the Soviet tanks in 1968. The neo-stalinistic "normalization" of the early 1970s violently pushed this - and others - creative branch beyond the borders of the permitted cultural activities. A number of composers were pushed into the background, the international contacts established were lost, and public interest in experimenting decreased.[1]
Editions
- 1-6 April 1968. Participants: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Józef Patkowski, Ulrich Dibelius, Hans Peter Reinecke, Eduard Herzog, Peter Faltin, Ladislav Kupkovič, Peter Kolman, Ivan Parík, and others.
- 31 March - 4 April 1969. Participants: György Ligeti, Henryk Górecki, Boleslaw Szabelski, Carl Dahlhaus, Hans-Peter Reinecke, Hans G. Helms, Diether de la Motte, Vinko Globokar, Vladimír Lébl, Petr Kotík and QuAX Ensemble, Peter Faltin, Ladislav Kupkovič, Peter Kolman, Jozef Malovec, Roman Berger, Ivan Parík, Juraj Hatrík, Milan Adamčiak, and others.
- 13-17 April 1970. Participants: Mauricio Kagel, Carl Dahlhaus, Siegfried Palm, Christoph Caskel, Karlheinz Boettner, Edward H. Tarr, Michal Bristinger, Dénes Zoltai, Tibor Kneif, Jan Kapr, Ivan Parík, Milan Adamčiak, Ladislav Mokrý, Ladislav Burlas, and others.
Literature
- Ľubomír Chalupka, “Smolenice 1968”, Slovenská hudba 12, 1968, No. 6, pp 278-282. (Slovak)
- Naďa Földváriová, “Smútok sluší recesii”, Slovenská hudba 13, 1969, No. 6/7, pp 240-245. (Slovak)
- Naďa Hrčková, “Utvrdzovanie sa vo viere”, Hudobný život 1, 1969, No. 5, p 7. (Slovak)
- Leoš Jůzl, “Smolenice 69”, Hudební rozhledy, 22, 9, 1969, p 259. (Czech)
- Helga de la Motte-Haber, “Internationale Seminare fuer Neue Musik in Smolenice”, Die Musikforschung, Vol. 22, No. 2, Kassel: Bärenreiter, Apr/Jun 1969, pp 215-216. (German)
- Naďa Földváriová, “Smolenice po tretí raz”, Slovenská hudba 14, 1970, No. 5/6, pp 168-171. (Slovak)
- Naďa Hrčková, Terézia Ursínyová, “Dva pohľady na Smolenice”, Hudobný život 2, 1970, No. 9, p 1, 3. (Slovak)
- Tibor Kneif, “III. Internationale Seminare fuer Neue Musik in Smolenice”, Die Musikforschung, Vol. 23, No. 4, Kassel: Bärenreiter, Oct/Dec 1970, pp 451-453. (German)
- Ladislav Burlas, “Nová hudba a historická dimenzia hudby”, Slovenská hudba 15, 1971, No. 8, pp 289-293. Lecture presented at Smolenice (1970). Republished in Ľubomír Chalupka, Slovenská hudobná avantgarda, Bratislava: Comenius University, 2011 (Slovak)
- Peter Faltin, “Ontologické transformácie v hudbe šesťdesiatych rokov”, Slovenská hudba 18, 1992, No. 2, pp 175-179. Lecture presented at Smolenice (1969). (Slovak)
- Slávo Krekovič, “Organized Sound and Experiments in Slovak Music”, in Anthology of Experimental Music Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe 1950-2010 (English / German / Slovak)