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Mozarteum University Salzburg
International Symposium
Mikrotöne: Small is beautiful III
Paper Presentations and Concerts focusing on Microtonal Music
- An event of the International Ekmelic Music Society
- in cooperation with the Mozarteum University Salzburg:
- Institut für Neue Musik
- Department Gesang
- Department Komposition und Musiktheorie
- and ConTempOhr.
- Concept and overall charge: Gertraud Steinkogler-Wurzinger and Agustín Castilla-Ávila
The this year's international symposium “Mikrotöne: Small is beautiful” with microtonal specialists from 16 countries is dedicated to Franz Richter Herf (1920-1989) and his wife Maria Richter-Taborsky (1928-2018). Both were teachers at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.
Daily, – , in the Lobby
Exhibition
In memoriam
Franz Richter Herf
( – )
From 1979 thru 1983, Franz Richter Herf was principal of the Mozarteum University Salzburg,
and in 1981, founder of the International Ekmelic Music Society.
As from 1970, he and Rolf Maedel devoted themselves to research and
systematization of microtones. This finally led to the development of
the Ekmelic Music.
Book
Mikrotöne: Small is beautiful III
Report with lectures of the symposium 2019
edited by Agustín Castilla-Ávila, 154 pages, ISBN 978-3-902964-39-7, published by Mackingerverlag, Salzburg.
