There Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation together withGiovanni Morelli Association presents the first festival in Italy dedicated to musicologist Giovanni Morelli (1942-2011), A hidden sky. From 30 September to 3 October 2021 Venice is filled with music, thanks to a series of concerts and exhibitions and lectures that pay homage to the late Professor Morelli.

“Dedicating a festival to Giovanni Morelli wants to pay homage to one of the most important personalities of Italian musicology and Venetian musical life in recent decades“ – has explained Roberto Calabretto, President of the scientific committee of the Leviò Foundation – “It was not easy to think about which initiatives could keep his memory alive and collect the precious legacy of the thought of “Professor Morelli”. The Festival was born as a natural emanation of the constitution of the Morelli Archive within the spaces of the Gianni Milner Library of the Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation in Venice, after it had been lovingly guarded and preserved for many years by his wife Margot Galante Garrone and his son Andrea Liberovici“.

The public, who will have to book their participation on the Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation website, will be invited to retrace the places dear to Morelli, such as the Levi Foundation, of which he was a member of the scientific committee and the board of directors, theCa ‘Foscari University of Venice, where he formed for many years, the La Fenice Theater, L’Luigi Nono Archive and the Giorgio Cini Foundation of which he directed the Institute for Music.

Among the events not to be missed there is A hidden sky. Drawings by Giovanni Morelli 1964-1968, edited by Maria Ida Biggi, which exposes at Palazzo Giustinian Lolin a series of ink drawings by Morelli e Precious days – the super8 found, edited by Andrea Liberovici, installation that will show some super8 of the Morelli family accompanied by the music of Margot Galante Garrone.

A series of conferences the reflection initiated by Morelli on some issues, such as research on Barbara Strozzi, composer of cantatas studied for a long time by Morelli together with Ellen Rosand, musicologist ofYale University who will hold a lecture-concert at the Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation on 3 October at 11 am.

The festival will end with the presentation to the public of the new staging of the Gianni Milner Library which preserves thePersonal archive by Giovanni Morelli, donated by Liberovici on the 10th anniversary of the death of his father. The Morellian Archive collects heterogeneous materials, from books to videos, from manuscripts to musical scores, but also notes and never completed projects.

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