Vivaldi e l’ornamentazione. Tra la Pietà veneziana e la Dresda di Pisendel

The conferenceis held on Friday, June 6, organized by the Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute, is part of the annual thematic program Casanova, Venice and Europe.

The art of improvisation and ornamentation, fundamental to Baroque performance practice, reached a level of extraordinary sophistication in the 18th century, closely linked to musical language, national styles, rhetoric, the composer’s intentions and the performer’s style.

The conference explores Antonio Vivaldi’s improvisational language and its transmission through his most prominent disciples: the German violinist J. G. Pisendel and the celebrated soloists of the Ospedale della Pietà, Anna Maria and Chiara. A journey from Venice to Dresden and back, to investigate how these practices continued to develop in the Pieta after Vivaldi’s death.

The conference, which takes place in the Capriate Pavilion, is given by Dr. Javier Lupiáñez.