Europe in the Time of Franz Liszt - international conference in Maribor
The Pokrajinski muzej Maribor (Slovenia) organized an international conference titled Europe in the Time of Franz Liszt on 13 and 14 October 2016. The director of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre, Dr. Zsuzsanna Domokos and two colleagues, Ágnes Watzatka and Anna Peternák participated in the conference.
Detailed progam can be found here:
http://www.museum-mb.si/exhibitions_and_events/0//294
The full texts of the lectures in English are here:
http://www.museoeurope.si/userfiles/MuseoEurope_2016.pdf
The conference was related to the temporary exhibition of the Pokrajinski muzej Maribor which was opened in June, entitled Franz Liszt, Small European Tour. In this exhibition, two objects are exhibited from the collection of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum Budapest: a bust of Liszt and a ribbon wreath from Liszt’s property. The exhibition marks the 170th anniversary of Franz Liszt's performance in the Knight's Hall of the Maribor castle. The conference was organized in this hall.
http://www.museum-mb.si/exhibitions_and_events/1//296
All the participants of the conference received DVD with the English version of the papers. We met with a warm welcome and kind hospitality, our hosts took us to several nice places where Liszt had given concerts during his tour of 1846, for example to the famous spa, Rogaška Slatina.