International Conference

This international study conference, organised by the Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio and the Giorgio Cini Foundation, marks the end of the project dedicated to Giordano Riccati and promoted by the Veneto Region as part of the programme to celebrateillustrious Veneto people. Many of the scientifi c-cultural issues in the research set up in the project would have been dear to the scientist-musician-architect Riccati.
The conference aims in particular to explore and showcase the quality of his scientifi c and cultural studies,
also by setting them in their historical context to highlight their originality and variety.

On October 6, at the end of the fi rst day of the conference, there will be an organ concert dedicated to the “Riccatian” repertoire in the church of San Giorgio Maggiore.
The Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio and the Giorgio Cini Foundation is currently engaged on several fronts in a very rich programme of events. In addition to an organ concert in the cathedral of Chioggia, on 3 July, a meeting has been planned for late September at the Teatro Accademico in Castelfranco Veneto, Riccati’s birthplace. Lastly,
there will be an educational event involving students from various high schools and conservatories at the G. B. Benedetti Science High School in Venice.
Moreover, the activity of sound mapping by the Laboratory of Architectural and Music Acoustics of the Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio continues to explore those places in which Riccati played a signifi cant role in offering design or construction advice for the acoustic and architectural solutions: the Teatro Accademico, Castelfranco Veneto, the
Teatro Comunale, Cittadella, the Teatro Sociale, Badia Polesine, Chioggia cathedral and the church of Sant’Andrea in Riva di Treviso.