The world of music mourns the death of Marcello Parducci

Mourning in the world of culture and music for the death of Marcello Parducci, former president of the Lucchese Musical Association. Sick for a long timeso much so that he left all his roles in musical associations, in four days he would have been 84 years old.

It was in the past public administrator and he animated, as a member and then as president of the Lucchese Musical Association, many events including the Pieve a Elici Festival, bringing the most important names on the international music scene to Massarosa. He also had the intuition for the birth of the Lucca Classica festival, which will start in the city in a few days.

For anyone who would like to greet him tomorrow morning (April 19th) from 10am to 4pm at the Ferrante room of the funeral home in via Fratelli Cervi in ​​Viareggio and at 5.30 pm there will be mass in Pieve a Elici.

A life dedicated to music, that of Parducci, who in “his” Pieve and for the Aml literally had a galaxy of stars perform, launching and following with paternal affection many young people who would soon make themselves known. The condolences in the world of music are great, at a national and international level, because with his humanity he was able to create and maintain contacts with dozens and dozens of musicians and operators in the sector, who respected and appreciated him. There was no musician who, when called for a concert, refused the invitation or who, passing through Lucca to play, did not go to see him to greet him and show him affection and gratitude.
Parducci joined the AML in 1994. In that year the association was able to enrich its offer of concerts with the management of the season which had been held since 1967 in church of San Pantaleone in Pieve a Elici. Organized personally by Parducci himself, The concerts of Pieve a Elici they have grown over time to become one of the most prestigious musical events in the province of Lucca and at an Italian level.
“If the Associazione Musicale Lucchese is today what we all know and many appreciate at a national and international level, much is owed to Marcello Parducci who with immense passion, great competence and a rare charge of humanity has generously spent time and energy to make grow the reality that he has guided for so many years – they say the president of the AML Marco Cattani and the artistic director Simone Soldati – In fact, he is also responsible for the “la” for the Lucca Classica Music Festival, because the roots of this event lie in “his” Lucca in music. We also owe a lot to him on a personal level – they continue – because he confidently encouraged us to take on the roles we hold today for the AML. Also on behalf of the Board of Directors, the artistic committee and the entire large AML family we express our deep emotion, joining the family of dear Marcello”.

During his presidency, the activity ofLucca Musical Association experienced an important evolution which resulted in an increase in the number of concerts, in the organization of a winter season with weekly appointments and in an increasingly strong and structured collaboration with the various cultural realities of the area. Parducci believed a lot in this relationship activity and he always spent a lot on it, managing to build a network of contacts that was fundamental for the life of the AML in those and subsequent years.

In 2003, he gave life to the project for AML Lucca in Music which brought prestigious orchestras to Lucca such as the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Staatskapelle di Weimar, the Swr Freiburg – Baden Baden, the Chamber Orchestra of the Berliner Philarmoniker, the chamber orchestra of Mantua, the orchestra and the choir Verdi of Milan, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Italian Youth Orchestra and the Eyuo, great conductors such as Nicola Luisotti, Vladimir Ashkenazi, Asher Fish, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Romano Gandolfi, Julian Kovatchev and soloists of the caliber by Grigory Soholov, Christian Zimerman, Andràs Schiff, Mario Brunello, Enrico Dindo, Yuri Bashmet, Andrea Lucchesini, Pietro De Maria, Massimo Quarta, Enrico Bronzi, Uto Ughi, Vladimir Spivakov, David Geringas, Alexande Lonquich, Moni Ovadia, Gemma Betagnolli, Maria Agresta, Giorgio Berrugi, Gabriele Viviani.

The Luigi Boccherini conservatory, the president Maria Talarico and the director GianPaolo Mazzoli express their heartfelt condolences for the death of Marcello Parduccihistoric president of the Lucchese Musical Association and for decades the soul of the musical world of Lucca and Versilia.

“A great loss for all of us – they say Talarico and Mazzoli – Marcello was a beacon for our sector. His great passion, his foresight and the dense network of acquaintances that he was able to weave, led to Lucca and Versilia, at the Pieve a Elici Festival, great national and international performers. At the same time, how president of the Lucca musical association, had never failed to support young talents, also through the scholarships made available to our most deserving students; it is now the task of all of us to carry out his work worthily. With him goes a piece of local musical history to which we all owe a lot. Our deepest condolences go to his family“.

Thus the mayor, Mario Pardini: “I am saddened to learn of the death of Marcello Parducci, tireless president of the Associazione Musicale Lucchese from 1998 to 2016, organizer and driving force for years of one of the most prestigious Italian chamber music festivals: the Pieve a Elici concert season. Lucca and Versilia lose first of all a great connoisseur of discography and the most famous performers of classical music, a man who has made his skills as an administrator and the relevant relationships he has established over the years with many of the most prestigious Italian and international musicians available to the community with passion and generosity. To the family, My condolences to friends and the Lucca Music Association, also on behalf of the municipal administration of Lucca“.