La riscoperta della musica antica nelle Settimane Musicali Senesi

Il Flaminio di Giovan Battista Pergolesi nella revisione di Virgilio Mortari (1942)

Abstract

The ­ edition of Quarta Settimana Musicale Senese was dedicated to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, a composer still relatively little known then. In keeping with the broader project of rediscovering and promoting Italy’s musical heritage - initiated by the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in 1939 - the festival offered a comprehensive and multifaceted portrait of the composer. Among the works presented was Il Flaminio (1735), a commedeja pe’ mmuseca with a libretto by Gennaro Antonio Federico, staged in a new version revised by the composer Virgilio Mortari.
Through a comparative analysis of the original score and Mortari’s revision, this paper examines the compositional and dramaturgical choices, placing them within the broader twentieth-century debate on recovering and reimagining early repertoires. The findings show that Mortari’s goal was not to produce a philological reconstruction, but rather a reworking intended to enhance accessibility: an approach grounded in a dialogic relationship between the work, its performers, and the audience - one that shaped many experiences of musical “reinvention” in the first half of the twentieth century.

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