Baroque Festival, “On the road from Naples and Vienna”
Baroque Festival, “On the road from Naples and Vienna”
The “Feast of the Baroque Leonardo Leo“Exceeds the provincial borders e Friday 9 Septemberannex 21 hoursarrives at Lecce in church of Sant’Anna with the concert “On the way from Naples to Vienna”Of the Roman trio “Seikilos“. Intense were the cultural relations that united Naples and Vienna in the eighteenth century, both capitals of kingdoms, culturally placed in comparison.
A lively intertwining of literary and pictorial exchanges, as well as theatrical and musical, linked Naples to Austria reaching its apex in the period of Maria Carolinaqueen of Naples and daughter of Maria Teresa. The protagonist of the program is the Baroque clarinetproposed on the stages of Europe by the industrious Neapolitan workshops, which Vivaldi And Telemann they knew well and used in various jobs.
In the first three decades of the Eighteenth century a radical change in culture, taste and the arts took place in Naples. A change that originates in the institutional overturning that occurs starting from 1707when the Spanish domination is replaced by the Austrian one, relative more free and progressive.
When in the 1734 Austrian rule ends and an autonomous kingdom is created under the enlightened leadership of Charles III of Bourbonthe pace of change accelerates and Naples becomes one of the most important cultural centers of the European continent, where administrative and economic reforms of a distinctly anti-feudal and anticurial sign are affirmed.
A similar fervor also invests art, in which new contents are recovered that are linked to the rich seventeenth-century dialect literature, capable of generating a healthy change also in the musical field.
The music thus ceases to be the prerogative of a large closed and narrow circle, opening up to a more enjoyment. This is attested by the rapid rise of new theaters which, on the one hand, satisfy the need for a stage space in which the sovereign can celebrate himself and his court, like the San Carlo of Napleson the other with places of lesser splendor and prestige, such as the Theater of the FlorentinesThe New Theater oil Peace Theaterthey meet the growing passion for comedy for music, which can be considered the symbol of a new aesthetic vision in which new cultural demands are condensed and synthesized.
There are not only roads, highways, rails that unite Italy to Austria. A special channel of is the cultural one, proof of this is the state of strong communication between the art languages of the two countries.
A path is offered by music, whose tension even overcomes language barriers and can be understood without difficulty on both sides of the border. Before the extraordinary artistic flowering then mythologized in the term “classicism“, Vienna it was still “Italian province”: below Ferdinand II most of the musicians of the Hofmusikkapelle Provencal from Italy. The court band flourished under successive emperors until about 1740, until Maria Teresa And Joseph II decided to limit use to sacred music, e Antonio Salieriwho taught Beethovenhe was the last Italian court director.
In the last thirty years of Eighteenth century the role ofItaly as the fulcrum of musical Europe it began to decline at the same time as the rise of the Viennese triad – Haydn, Mozart And Beethoven – which was not isolated but represented the most advanced point of multiple musical experiences and of an entire generation of authors, partly from the so-called Mannheim school, partly active as pianists and composers in the Austrian capital.
The frenetic activism of Vienna in the second half of the eighteenth century was reflected in the availability of patrons and in the intense executive presence of public concerts, especially those organized during the Christmas period.
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