Conclusive Concert of the Early-Music Seminars 2018 | Jan Dismas Zelenka. Masses and sonatas 1720-30
Egida Sartori and Laura Alvini Early Music Seminars
Jan Dismas Zelenka. Masses and sonatas 1720-30
On the occasion of the the Early Music Seminars, directed by Pedro Memelsdorff, on 23 February at 6pm, the scholarship holders will perform at the Auditorium “Lo Squero”. Free entrance.
Programme of the Concert
The son of a Czech singer and organist, Zelenka probably received a Jesuit education before moving to Dresden, when he is documented as a violinist and composer in the Hofkappelle from 1710-11. Stays in Vienna and, possibly, Naples and Venice during the second decade of the eighteenth century helped to mould a complex and original style, rich in experimental ideas already admired by Bach, Telemann, Pisendel, Mattheson and Mizler.
Out of Zelenka’s vast work, the compositions of the early 1720s will be examined during the seminar, including the lamentations and the celebrated cycle of six sonatas zwv 181, a real sample of instrumental, rhetorical and compositional virtuosity. The main teachers will be the renowned oboist – Alfredo
Bernardini – and the vocalist-conductor – Václav Luks. The Fondazione Giorgio Cini – with the contribution and cooperation of the Fondation Concordance and the Fondazioni Irma Merk and L. + Th. La Roche (Basel, Switzerland) – is offering seven scholarships for all active participants.
Scholarships
