The sixth edition of Nineteenth century planThe music festival curated by pianist Riccardo Sandiford housed in the cloister of Twentieth Century Museum of Florence, in Piazza Santa Maria Novella. The opening night of the event will be held Friday 28 June 2024 at 9.00 pm to the museum cloister, with “The Sorrowful Orpheus” vocal and instrumental ensemble of the ancient music department of the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Florence.
The programming of VI edition of Pianonovecento it is closely connected to the exhibition “The Enchantment of Orpheus”a project created by Sergio Risaliti and edited by the director of Twentieth Century Museum together with Valentina Zucchi to Medici Riccardi Palace until to September 8th, where 60 works of art dedicated to the myth of Orpheus are exhibited. This year’s event will also feature musicians from Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Florence and from Fiesole music schoolwho will perform two vocal and instrumental concerts with their ancient music departments.
Nineteenth-century romantic musical production, both instrumental and operatic, certainly revolutionized the way of making music in Europe. Writing operas, symphonies or simple sonatas after Beethoven, Wagner or Verdi himself and trying to make an impact on the historical path was not child’s play. Chopin and Schumann themselves had strongly influenced subsequent composers, to the point that stylistic imitations were exorbitant.
It was therefore necessary to turn towards new cultural worlds, reset and start again from a more distant past, thus reassimilating the stylistic features and harmonic structures of what we today define, even a little trivially, as ancient music.
The twentieth century is therefore enriched, alongside the various innovative stylistic currents such as, for example, the twelve-tone experience, also through the recovery of past techniques and themes and myths from the ancient Greek world.
For further information and programme: www.museonovecento.it
