Friedemann Sallis

Professor Friedemann Sallis is the Director of Graduate Studies at the Music Department of the University of Calgary. He obtained his PhD in musicology under the direction of the late Prof. Dr. Carl Dahlhaus at the Technische Universität Berlin.  Before coming to Calgary he taught music history, musicology and directed the departmental choir at the Université de Moncton. His writings include a book on the early works of György Ligeti, the co-edition of A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches(Cambridge 2004), and numerous articles on music of nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As well as musicology and sketch studies, Dr. Sallis's areas of expertise include the interaction of historical and theoretical perspectives in twentieth-century music, aesthetics, and issues concerning music and identity. He has received Fellowship Grants from the Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel) and since 1997 he has been awarded four successive research grants by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

English, French, German and Italian

F. Sallis, “‘We play with the music and the music plays with us’: Sándor Veress and his student György Ligeti,” György Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands & Strange Sounds, Louise Ducheneau and Wolfgang Marx eds. (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2011), 1-16.

F. Sallis, “Introduction,” Centre and periphery, roots and exil: Interpreting the music of István Anhalt, György Kurtág and Sándor Veress, F. Sallis, Robin Elliott and Kenneth DeLong eds. (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011), 1-28.

F. Sallis, “Music Written from Memory in the Late Work of István Anhalt,” Centre and periphery, roots and exil: Interpreting the music of István Anhalt, György Kurtág        and Sándor Veress, F. Sallis, Robin Elliott and Kenneth DeLong eds. (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011), 395-419.

F. Sallis, Robin Elliott and Kenneth DeLong eds., Centre and periphery, roots and exil: Interpreting the music of István Anhalt, György Kurtág and Sándor Veress (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011), 438 pages.

F. Sallis, “«...sembra di esser tagliati fuori dal mondo. ovvero: che il mondo sia questo». Problems and Issues Surrounding the Early North American Reception of the Music of Luigi Nono,” in Presenza storica di Luigi Nono, Quaderni di Musica/Realtà 60, Angela Ida De Benedictus ed. (Lucca: LIM, 2011), 139-164.

F. Sallis, “Growing with Canada: The Émigré Tradition in Canadian Music. By Paul Helmer. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. xii, 388 pp. ISBN 978-0773535817. $49.95,” CAML Review/Revue de l’ACBM 39/1 (2011): 39-41.

F. Sallis “La Musica da Camera di György Kurtág (1950-2005): Dall’estetica del frammento ai ‘programmi da concerto’,” Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale “Kurtág e l’Hommage a Schumann: frammento e citazione, costruzione formale e ascolto” 16/1 (2010): 7-24

F. Sallis, “Alan M. Gillmor, editor. Eagle Minds: Selected Correspondence of Istvan Anhalt and George Rochberg 1961-2005 Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007. xliv, 426. $85.00,” University of Toronto Quarterly “Letters in Canada 2008,”79/1 (Winter 2010): 471-3.

Ian Burleigh and F. Sallis, “Seizing the ephemeral: Recording Luigi Nono’s A Pierre Dell’azzurro silenzio, inquietum, a più cori and Post-Prae-Ludium per Donau at the Banff Centre,” Proceedings of the Electroacoacoustic Music Studies Network International Conference (EMS08) 3-7 June 2008 (Paris) - INA-GRM et Université Paris-Sorbonne (MINT-OMF) http://www.ems-network.org/ems08/paper.html

F. Sallis, “La classification et la gestion des manuscrits musicaux de la Collection György Kurtág conservée à la Fondation Paul Sacher,” Gestes, fragments, timbres : la musique de György Kurtág en l’honneur de son 80e anniveraire, Actes du colloque des 29, 30 et 31 mai 2006 à l’Institut hongrois de Paris Márta Grabócz, Jean-Paul Olive eds. (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008), 39-48.

F. Sallis, “Teaching as a subversive art: Sándor Veress’s Billegetőmuzsika [Fingerlarks] and György Kurtág’s Játékok [Games],” Sándor Veress. Komponist – Lehrer – Forscher, Doris Lanz and Anselm Gerhard ed.,Schweizer Beiträge zur Musikforschung, Bd. 11 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2008), 159-171.

F. Sallis, “Beckles Willson, Rachel. 2007. Ligeti, Kurtág and Hungarian Music during the Cold War Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Reviewed by Friedemann Sallis” Current Musicology, No. 86 (Fall 2008): 7-11.

F. Sallis, "Fleurs recyclées: Sur les trace de relations souterraines dans l'Officium breve in memoriam Andreæ Szervánszky opus 28 pour quatuor à cordes de György Kurtág," Circuit. Musiques contemporaines (La fabrique des oeuvres) 18/1 (2008): 45-58.

F. Sallis, "Srul Irving Glick," CAML Review/Revue de l'ACBM 35/2 (August 2007): 47-49.

F. Sallis, "Segementing the Labyrinth: Sketch studies and the scala enigmatica in the Finale of Luigi Nono's Quando stanno morendo Diario Polacco N. 2 (1982)," Ex tempore. A Journal of Compositional and Theoretical Research in Music, 13/1 (Spring/Summer 2006) pp. 1-23.

F. Sallis and Anne Sivuoja-Gunaratnam, "Northern Perspectives on Music and Culture," Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music/Revue canadienne de musique 25/1-2 (2005): 40-43.

F. Sallis, "Glenn Gould's Idea of North and the production of place in music," Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music/Revue canadienne de musique, "Northern Perspectives on Music and Culture" 25/1-2 (2005): 113-137.

F. Sallis, "István Anhalt," CAML Review/Revue de l'ACBM 33/1-2 (2005): 42-44.

Patricia Hall and F. Sallis eds., A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 254 pages.

F. Sallis and Patricia Hall, "Introduction," A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches, P. Hall and F. Sallis eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 1-4.

Giselher Schubert and F. Sallis, "Sketches and sketching," A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches, P. Hall and F. Sallis eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 5-16.

F. Sallis, "Coming to terms with the composer's working manuscripts," A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches, P. Hall and F. Sallis eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 43-58.

F. Sallis, "Lajos Bárdos e l'eredità del suo insegnamento," La Cartellina, trans. Piervito Malusà, 28/157(2004): 52-62.

F. Sallis, Nelson Ouellet, et al., The Sketchbooks of György Kurtág. A database of information extracted from 106 sketchbooks conserved in the György Kurtág Collection of the Paul Sacher Foundation, © Friedemann Sallis and the Univeristé de Moncton, 2004.

Patricia Balcom and F. Sallis, "Towards a model of learning in a multi-media environment: The construction and deconstruction of theory," Proceedings of the International Conference on New Media Research Networks, (University of Prince Edward Island, 2004), 82-89.

F. Sallis, "Apropos Aesthetic Autonomy," Canadian University Music Review/Revue de musique des universités canadiennes 24/1 (2003): 1-6.

F. Sallis, "Deconstructing the local: The aesthetic space and geographic place of Oskar Morawetz's String Quartet No. 5 ‘A tribute to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart' (1991)," Canadian University Music Review/Revue de musique des universités canadiennes 24/1 (2003): 7-29.

F. Sallis, "György Ligeti (1923-)," The Twentieth-Century Music Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, Larry Sitsky ed. (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., 2002), 254-263.

F. Sallis, "Luigi Nono (1924-1990)," The Twentieth-Century Music Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, Larry Sitsky ed. (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., 2002), 329-338.

F. Sallis, "The Genealogy of György Kurtág's Hommage à R. Sch. op. 15d," Studia Musicalogica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 43/3-4 (2002): 311-322.

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