In keeping with approach adopted in the new series of early music seminars begun in 2007, under the direction of Pedro Memelsdorff, this year\u2019s seminar will be devoted to a completely unpublished repertoire in a manuscript source recently rediscovered in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini archives: seven cantatas for voice and basso continuo by Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682).
\nIn summer 2012, musicologist Giulia Giovani \u2013 at the time she had a scholarship to the Vittore Branca International Centre for the Study of Italian Culture \u2013 was doing research in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini music archives when she came across a manuscript containing twenty-one cantatas and two arias, mostly for soprano and basso continuo, by Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682). The document was in the Archive of Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973), one of the most important composers whose archives are housed in the Fondazione Cini. Certainly drafted in the Veneto area and probably in Venice in the second half of the 17th-century, the manuscript is important evidence of the reception of Stradella\u2019s music in Venice and is the only source containing
\nsome chamber cantatas previously not in the catalogue of his compositions.
\nAs usual, the seminar \u2013 this year directed by the celebrated early music conductor Ren\u00e9 Jacobs \u2013 will host a number of scholarship holders selected by means of an international competition for professional or semi-professional singers; at the final concert, they will perform the world premi\u00e8re of the previously unknown works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32975,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cini_tax_event_categories":[1465],"cini_tax_institutes":[29],"cini_tax_event_locations":[1464],"class_list":["post-34135","cini_events","type-cini_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cini_tax_event_categories-meetings","cini_tax_institutes-early-music","cini_tax_event_locations-island-of-san-giorgio-maggiore"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n