Luigi Mancinelli helped spread Italian musical culture around the world and was a perceptive interpreter of the innovations that defined the early twentieth century. As well as celebrating his figure and making it better known, the event is also a cultural promotion of the city, and the first initiative organised together with another Dante Committee: the Milan Committee and its president, Adriano Bassi, a member of the Central Council of the Società Dante Alighieri.
More than a century after his death, Luigi Mancinelli remains one of the least explored figures in Italian musical history between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A composer and cellist, but above all a conductor of international standing — in Bologna, Rome, Madrid, London and New York — he played a leading role in a period of profound transformation of the musical profession: the rise of the modern conductor, the Italian reception of Wagner, the emergence of new musical languages and new audiences, and the first encounters between art music and cinema.
The symposium, which will begin at 3.30 pm and end at 6 pm, aims to convey the complexity of Mancinelli’s artistic experience, bringing historical-musicological, biographical and contextual perspectives into dialogue. At 9 pm there will be a concert featuring pieces from Mancinelli’s chamber repertoire and by the composers whose works he championed as a conductor.
Speakers: Adriano Bassi, musicologist, conductor and concert performer; Carlo Emilio Tortarolo, music critic, conductor and cultural manager; Maurizio Schiavo, musicologist, violinist and conductor; Alfredo Sirica, composer and author of film scores. The concert programme will be performed by Maestri Dino Graziani (violin), Rita Graziani (flute), Giuseppe Dolci (cello) and Stefano Silvi (piano).