Torino musicale scrinium di Vivaldi

The documentary exhibition “Torino musicale scrinium di Vivaldi” opens Tuesday 14 February at the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria of Turin. Planned in concurrence with the XX Winter Olympics 2006, the exhibition displays autograph manuscripts by the great Venetian composer as well as written and figurative material related to his work in the field of music theatre. Integral to the exhibition is the section Antonio Vivaldi and his time, which has been brought to fruition by the Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute of the Giorgio Cini Foundation and presents documents on the work of Antonio Vivaldi that illustrate the environment in which he lived and the influence he had on European music.
The modern rediscovery of Antonio Vivaldi and the enormous diffusion of his work world-wide is unique in the annals of the music history. This phenomenon is due, in part, to the publication of his instrumental work undertaken by the Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute from 1947 on (more than 500 previously unpublished and virtually unknown concerts, symphonies and sonatas) and Vivaldi’s entire vocal oeuvre (in more than 100 editions), published after 1978, the year in which the Institute became part of the Giorgio Cini Foundation.

The section Antonio Vivaldi and his time has been curated by Maria Teresa Muraro and mounted on an installation by Maria Ida Biggi. It is addresses various themes illustrating Venetian theatres and set design in the second half of the 17th century, the cultural ambience in which Vivaldi lived, the musical activities at the “Ospitali”, Vivaldi’s instumental music, the places and theatres in which Vivaldi worked, set design in the first half of the 18th century, and Vivaldi’s last days.

Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria
14 February – 3 June 2006

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