concerts and activities
Monday, September 7th
Florence,
Galleria dell'Accademia
Paper sessions
will be hosted by the Galleria dell’Accademia
(http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/musei/accademia/),
in the room where the David and the Slaves by Michelangelo
Buonarroti are on display.
Activities of the
day will include:
Ella
Sevskaya, harpsichord
5:30pm Visit to the
Department of
Musical Instruments of the Galleria dell’Accademia, Collection of
the Conservatory of Music “Luigi Cherubini”
The Museum
includes, among a total of about 400 instruments, the private
collections of the Grand Dukes of Tuscay: Medici and Lorraine that
were opened to the public in 2001. Some of the highlights are the
“Medici” tenor viola, made by Antonio Stradivari for Grandprince
Ferdinando de’ Medici in 1690, the only instrument by this maker
that survives unmodified in its original baroque setting; the
“Medici” cello, that was part of the same quintet, and the “Tuscan”
violin (1716) by the same maker.
5:30pm
Tour of
the city along the footsteps of Vincenzio Sodi
Maria
Virginia Rolfo,
who is writing a thesis about Sodi as part of her master’s degree
work at the National Music Museum, The University of South Dakota,
will lead a tour of the city centre of Florence pointing out and
describing the places where this important late 18th century
harpsichord and piano maker lived and worked.
In order to recreate an historical context, comments about the
activities of other makers, the different workshops, the guilds, the
theaters, the musical life of the city, and the different rulers of
the time will be made during the tour.
by Bartolomeo Cristofori (oval virginal 1690, ebony harpsichord
1700,
piano 1726: copies by Kerstin Schwarz)
Thanks to the close collaboration with Kerstin Schwarz and Tony
Chinnery the Department of Musical Instruments of the Galleria
dell’Accademia in Florence presently hosts replicas of three
different models of Cristofori’s instruments: the ebony oval spinet
(1690), the ebony and ivory harpsichord (ante 1700) and his latest
piano (1726, now in Leipzig, Grassi Museum).
The three
instruments will be played and discussed with particular attention
to the development of the creative process of this genius among
makers.
Tuesday, September 8th
Florence,
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Aula Magna
Paper sessions will be hosted by the University of Florence
(www.unifi.it)
12:30pm Concert: Antonello
Palazzolo and Laura Polverelli
5:45pm Concert: Folia Barocca (Donatella
Mitolo and Valentina Giusti), Music from the Medici Court
9pm Concert at the
Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori: Ju Jin, historic pianos of the
collection
The Accademia
Bartolomeo Cristofori (www.accademiacristofori.it)
is a private institution with one of the richest collections of
early pianos in Italy. The institution also hosts the Laboratorio
per il restauro del fortepiano, a conservation and restoration
laboratory funded by Donatella Degiampietro and specialized in the
conservation of instruments made in the first half of the 18thc
century.
It will be possible to visit both the collection and the laboratory
after the concert.
Wednesday, September 9th
Florence,
Museo
Nazionale del Bargello
The CIMCIM Business meeting and sessions will be
hosted by the Museo Nazionale del Bargello
Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica
5:30pm Inauguration
of the temporary exhibition Flute-making in Italy: three centuries
of history
and innovation in the instruments from Carreras collection
Francesco Carreras hold one of the richest collection of flutes by
Italian makers from the beginnings of the 18th century to the 70s of the 20th
century. Over 450 flutes and other 100 instruments, including
different woodwind instruments, some brass instruments and various
parts of instruments.
followed by a
visit to the collection,
restoration laboratory and storage
of
the Musical Instruments Museum of the Accademia
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
(museo.santacecilia.it)
The Musical Instruments Museum of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa
Cecilia (MUSA), holds one of the foremost collections in Italy. Its
most valuable pieces are on display in its new exhibition gallery
created by Renzo Piano and open to the public from February 2008.
The museum was established in 1895 by what was then the Regia
Accademia. Together with the Count of San Martino (then president),
a number of Santa Cecilia Academics contributed to creating the
collection by donating their own instruments.
The
collection comprise
about
670 pieces, included 240
instruments.
Some of the highlights are:
the
“Tuscan Strad”,
one of the violins of the quintet made by Antonio Stradivari for Grandprince
Ferdinando
de’ Medici in 1690; a viola by
David Tecchler, 1743; a mandolin by the same author (1726) and other
twenty-five instruments belonging from the collection of the Queen
of Italy, Margaret of Savoia.
Thursday, September 10th
Rome
9am Visit to
the National Musical Instruments Museum at piazza S. Croce in
Gerusalemme
(www.museostrumentimusicali.it)
The National Musical Instruments Museum hold the major collection in
Italy. Over 3000 pieces, most of them collected during the
first half of the XX century by the Italian opera singer Evan Gorga,
including very rare Renaissance and Baroque instruments. Some other
important musical instruments have been acquired by the museum, like
the Barberini harp, dating back to early 17th century, and one of
the three only existing pianos by Bartolomeo Cristofori.
The permanent exhibition is aimed to show the history of the
European music through 1000 musical instruments, starting from
Ancient cultures (Egyptian, Greek and Roman). The exhibition is
completed by a section devoted to
instruments of non-European countries (China, Japan, Laos,
India, Arabia, Turkey, Persia, America, Africa, Oceania).
830pm Dinner party
celebrating the 50th anniversary of CIMCIM
Friday, September 11th
Rome
9am Visit to the
Vatican collection of musical instruments at the
Ethnological Missionary Museum
The Ethnological Missionary Museum (Museo Missionario
Etnologico) was founded by Pope Pius XI with the Motu Proprio
Quoniam tam praeclara on 12 November 1926, on the closure of
the Universal Missionary Exhibition, which the Pontiff himself had
desired on the occasion of the Holy Year of 1925. On 1 February 1927
the museum was inaugurated in the rooms of the Lateran Palace where
it remained until 1963. In 1973, under the pontificate of Paul VI,
it was relocated in its present site in the Vatican.
The present museum collection, which amounts to about 80,000 works,
is structured into two distinct routes. In the first, open to the
public, there are objects of above all a religious nature from four
geographical areas (Asia, Oceania, Africa, America). This is flanked
by a section called "Missionary Synthesis" which is a collection of
works produced following evangelization. The second route contains
collections, again arranged with geo-cultural criteria, that are
more generally products of different societies. These are stored
away and can be seen on request.
9:30pm Concert at
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Lorin Maazel Orchestra and the Choir
of the Accademia
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia plays the Simphony n. 9 by Ludwig van
Beethoven
Saturday, September 12th
Rome
9am Visit to Claude
Lebet string instruments private collection (www.claudelebet.it)
Claude Lebet is a Swiss violin maker, who owns an important
collection of string instruments,
including one of the vast group of pochettes, together with
bows, cases, documents and paintings.