At Villa Vismara Currò the music historian Benedetta Saglietti will present “Beethoven’s fifth symphony reviewed by ET A Hoffmann” and will reveal all the background to a review that changed the history of music; Paolo Marzocchi on the piano
PESARO – It seems impossible that Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, one of the most iconic works of the famous composer, whose incisive initial motto automatically resonates in our minds as soon as its name is evoked, had its premiere in a concert as famous as it was unfortunate .
When the Fifth was performed for the first time in Vienna, on 22 December 1808 – alongside innumerable other pieces – the difficulty of the compositions, the insufficient number of rehearsals, the length of the program and the cold of the theater decreed a semi-fiasco, much that a reporter dismissed the execution with a hasty “No one is a prophet in his own country”.
The fate of the work changed greatly a few months later, when the director of the most important German music magazine asked a then unknown collaborator, ET A Hoffmann, for a review: the latter, who would become the most important writer of German Romanticism , called the Fifth “a masterpiece”.
The story of this review and how it changed the history of music is at the center of the music historian’s work Benedetta Saglietti “Beethoven’s fifth symphony reviewed by ETA Hoffmann” (Donzelli Editore), which will be presented by the author herself Sunday 28 April at 5.30pm in the evocative setting of Villa Vismara Currò (via Santa Maria delle Fabrecce 2, Pesaro) during the event organized by the WunderKammer Orchestra Pesaro association in collaboration with Ente Olivieri – Oliveriani Library and Museums and Libreria Il Catalogo di Pesaro.
Benedetta Saglietti’s work reports for the first time, in its integral form, the Italian translation of Hoffmann’s review, in a critical edition introduced by an interview of the author with Riccardo Muti.
Not only conference, but also concert: Paolo Marzocchi, artistic director of WunderKammer Orchestra, will perform Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in Franz Liszt’s transcription: a combination of music and literature to discover a Symphony that has never ceased to enchant the public for centuries.
Info and Tickets
Full price tickets 15 euros; Reduced (WundeKammer Orchestra members) 12 euros. Online ticketing on Ticketnation.
Info Tel. 366 6094910; [email protected] and wunderkammerorchestra.com
Patronages
The event enjoys the patronage of the Municipality of Pesaro and takes place as part of the celebrations of Pesaro Capital of Culture 2024.
