| Title: | The Conductor Gertrud Herliczka |
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| Authors: | ID Petriček, Jera (Author) |
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| Files: |  ZUP_Petricek_Jera_2025.pdf (161,39 KB)
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Not categorized |
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| Typology: | 1.16 - Independent Scientific Component Part or a Chapter in a Monograph |
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| Organization: | ZUP - University of Primorska Press
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| Abstract: | The conductor Gertrud Herliczka was born 1904 in Vienna and has conducted over 100 concerts with professional orchestras between 1927 and 1939. In writing about her, I am asking myself several questions. What is the nature of a conductor’s work? How can we describe it in its complexity? There is another aspect which raises interest: Why does being a woman on the podium matter? In this paper, I reflect upon the importance of the visual for a conductor, drawing from the book by the conductor Mark Wigglesworth. I observe how Herliczka’s gender poses a challenge for critics, reviewing her performance in one concert with the Munich Philharmonic in 1938. Through Theodore Schatzki’s theory of art bundles I approach conducting as a bundle of practices. Schatzki sees conventions as a feature of an art world, which is inevitably intertwined with other social worlds. One of the conventions in the classical musical world is a male conductor. This is also a result of the polarisation of genders, as has been shown by Karin Hausen. Herliczka’s critics were impressed by her conducting, so we can suppose she fulfilled the demands of a conductor’s bundle of practices, but she had to struggle with the prejudices against her gender. This struggle is still visible in the art world, particularly in the field of conducting. |
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| Keywords: | conductor, female conductor, convention, artistic bundles, visual aspect |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publisher: | Založbe Univerze na Primorskem |
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| Year of publishing: | 2025 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 159-166 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/RUP-22272  |
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| ISBN: | 9789612934255 |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.26493/978-961-293-425-5.159-166 |
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| Publication date in RUP: | 19.12.2025 |
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