SIETAR-Kansai - Past Monthly Programs

January 2005

Vienna as Beethoven's Lifelong Residence

Date:
January 30, 2005 Sunday 14:00-16:00

Presenter:
Prof. Toshinori Fujita (Kansai Gaidai University)

Place:
Nishinomiya-shi Daigaku Koryu Center
(ACTA Nishinomiya higashikan, 6F, Room1)
2 min. from the north exit of Hankyu Nishinomiya Kitaguchi St.

TEL. (0798) 69-3155

Fee:
Members and Students 500 Yen, Non-members 1,000 Yen

Language:
Japanese

Description of the Program:
Everybody knows that Beethoven was born in Bonn of Germany. After he left Bonn for Vienna in 1782 ( 22 years old), he, however, never paid a single visit to his home town during his whole life of 57 years in the Vienna region. In spite of his hard and troublesome life in the strange town, he broke it through and succeeded in composing such a number of immortal music. Is there any reason why Vienna-milieu attracted Beethoven? I will explore conceivable factors by tracing his surroundings.

Profile of the Presenter:
Professor at Kansai-Gaidai University (since 1999) and Lecturer at Osaka University of Foreign Studies (since 2000)
After graduation from German-philology(Germanistik) Faculty of Osaka University of Foreign Studies, he worked for 35 years at ITOCHUU Corporation, general manager of Industrial Machinery Dept. etc. and 2 years as Director of Administration Div. at one of its sister company. He stayed in the meantime in Europe (Germany, Switzerland and Austria) for 20 years in total, meanwhile as President of ITOCHU Switzerland AG and Austria GmbH.

Member of : 1)SIETAR, 2)The Japan Academic Society of Tourism, 3)Japan Business Communication Association(JBCA), 4)Japan Academy of International Business Studies(JAIBS), 5) Business Model Association

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