The colour of impromptu sound
Improvisation can be a tool of knowledge and an indispensable part of learning and interpreting music, especially for works in the historical repertoire. Starting from this premise, Davide Amodio, a quartet teacher at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory, Venice, has set out to create an exchange of views with eminent scholars focused on the first modern performance of a quartet by Antonio Miari, which has recently been rediscovered by the musicologist Anna Barina.
The world première in modern times of the unpublished “Exultance” Quartet in D Major by Antonio Miari, an early 19th-century composer from Belluno, provides the opportunity for a meeting dedicated to the most diverse aspects of improvisation, which will be analysed not only in music but also in colour and dance.
The event will be staged at 5.30 pm on Saturday 16 January at the Giorgio Cini Foundation Venice, when the Quartetto Esultanza (the name was chosen in honour of Miari’s quartet), consisting of students in Prof. Davide Amodio quartet class, will perform the piece written for the wedding of the composer’s firstborn son Felice, on 24 September 1840.
The manuscript was transcribed by the musicologist Anna Barina. To Miari’s notes in the dance tempo movements of the quartet, dancers from the Centro Elaborazione Danza, Mestre, will perform choreographies by Laura Sgaragli, while the artist Maurizio Favaretto, a professor of Figure Drawing at the Liceo Artistico, Venice, and Edoardo Amodio, a student of painting at the Venice Accademia di Belle Arti, will execute extemporary paintings on canvas.
The concert will be presented by Maurizio Agamennone (University of Florence and editor of Per Archi magazine), Davide Amodio (B. Marcello Conservatory, Venice), Anna Barina (musicologist), Giovanni De Zorzi (University of Padua), and Daniele Goldoni (University of Venice).
The project has been organised by Davide Amodio and Anna Barina in collaboration with the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory and the Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice.
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The Quartetto Esultanza concert is part of a project to recover Miari’s chamber music by transcribing the original manuscripts with the aid of information technology applied to music research. This musicological work is aimed at exploring a still unknown repertoire and will enhance and re-write the music history of the Veneto region, especially for a historical period in which the most commonly performed genre was opera.
