International Study Sessions for the quadricentennial of Giovanni Gabrieli (1554/56-1612)

plus Dec, 1011 2012

«Alla schola del signor Giovanni Gabrieli»

Giovanni Gabrieli Between Past and Future: Contexts, Models and Italian Disciples

International Study Sessions for the quadricentennial of Giovanni Gabrieli (1554/56-1612)

Heir to the illustrious tradition of Venetian polyphonic and polychoral music, Giovanni Gabrieli progressively modified his musical language in the direction of the ‘new’ stile concertato with basso continuo and certain features of the new expressive style which developed in the context of Florentine monody and the Mantuan madrigal.

In Venice, this process was not without consequences for the formation of the younger generation of musicians (Venetian and non-Venetian). In the footsteps of his uncle, Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni had established what was nothing short of a school (with price lists and programmes), populated by a considerable number of young musicians from all over Europe. Gabrieli’s influence on his Northern pupils (Aichinger, Schütz, Pedersøn, Grabbe, Nielsen and others) has been partially investigated; less clear and certainly more problematic is his contribution to the formation of a local compositional tradition. Leaving aside Gabrieli’s unquestionable importance as composer and innovator in the field of instrumental music, the situation is rendered particularly complex by the arrival in Venice of Claudio Monteverdi in 1613. Frequently music historiography has assigned to Monteverdi prime responsability for the processes of innovation characteristic of subsequent Venetian music.

These study sessions aim to shed light on the extent and nature of Gabrieli’s legacy in the hands of his various pupils and followers (G.B. Riccio, G.B. Grillo, G. Priuli, G. Valentini etc.) both in Venice and elsewhere, with reference both to instrumental music and to the sacred and secular vocal repertoires during the first three decades of the seventeenth century. Discussion of Alessandro Grandi’s role in the artistic production of the new generation of composers can be of particular importance in this context. Other themes regard: Gabrieli and contemporary music publishing (though perhaps the most reluctant composer of the period in publishing his own compositions, Giovanni – in the true spirit of tradition – posthumously edited several volumes of music by his uncle Andrea); Gabrieli, the madrigal and private patronage in Venice.

Scientific Board: David Bryant, Rodolfo Baroncini, Luigi Collarile

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Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, Diocesi Patriarcato di Venezia, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, Procuratoria di San Marco, Regione del Veneto, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Università degli studi di Padova.

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Programme

 

Monday 10 December 2012

9.00

Welcome address and Introduction.

 

9.30-12.30

Chair: Gianmario Borio / Rodolfo Baroncini.

Rodolfo Baroncini (Conservatorio di Musica “Antonio Buzzolla”, Adria)

“Et per tale confirmato dall’auttorità del signor Giovanni Gabrieli”: l’auctoritas gabrieliana e la ricezione dei suoi modelli nei compositori veneziani (e non) della nuova generazione (1600-1620).

Metoda Kokole (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

Giovanni Gabrieli’s style echoed in music produced in the first quarter of the seventeenth century on the territory between Koper/Capodistria and Graz.

Marco Di Pasquale (Conservatorio di Musica “Arrigo Pedrollo”, Vicenza)

Innovazione e calchi gabrieliani nelle canzoni da sonar di Giovanni Battista Riccio.

14.00-17.00

Chair: David Bryant / Sabine Meine.

Iain Fenlon (King’s College, Cambridge)

Constructing Images: Giovanni Gabrieli and the Claims of History.

Jonathan Glixon (University of Kentucky)

Students, Rivals and Contemporaries: Organists in Venetian Churches at the Time of Giovanni Gabrieli.

Jeffrey Kurtzman (Washington University, St. Louis)

Toward an Understanding of Cleffing, Pitch and Sonority in the Vocal Music of Giovanni Gabrieli.

David Bryant (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia), Elena Quaranta (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia)

Giovanni Gabrieli e la consuetudine dello stile concertato.

Philippe Canguilhem (Université de Toulouse Le Mirail)

Interpretare la musica strumentale d’insieme di Giovanni Gabrieli

 

Tuesday 11 December 2012

9.00-12.30

Chair: Jeffrey Kurtzman / Luigi Collarile.

Luigi Collarile (Université de Fribourg)

Giovanni Gabrieli e le edizioni postume di Andrea: nuove considerazioni.

Giuseppe Clericetti (Radio Svizzera Italiana)

I ricercari di Giovanni Gabrieli nel contesto organistico e didattico veneziano.

Massimo Bisson (Università Iuav di Venezia)

Organi, cantorie e spazi per la musica nelle chiese veneziane all’epoca di Giovanni Gabrieli.

Stefano Lorenzetti (Conservatorio di Musica “Arrigo Pedrollo”, Vicenza)

Scritte nella mente? La musica per strumento da tasto di Giovanni Gabrieli e l’arte di comporre all’improvviso.

Info: musica@cini.it