Su alcune intonazioni dei Lieder di Mignon

L’analisi di alcune delle numerose intonazioni ottocentesche del Lied Kennst du das Land (con particolare attenzione alle versioni di Beethoven, Spontini, Pollini, Thomas) permette di toccare con mano la trasformazione che la figura di Mignon visse nel passaggio dal romanzo ai nuovi generi artistici. Le “infedeltà” rispetto alle intenzioni di Goethe sono sintomo della vitalità di questa figura letteraria anche al di fuori del suo contesto d’origine.On Some Intonations of Mignon’s LiederThe analysis of some 19th-century settings of Kennst du das Land (particularly focusing on works by Beethoven, Spontini, Pollini, and Thomas) allows to see the transformation of the character of Mignon moving from Goethe’s novel to other artistic genres. The differences between Goethe’s Mignon and that of the composers show the vitality of this literary character also outside of its original context

Lionello Sozzi e la sua esperienza della musica

Lionello Sozzi’s relationship with music wasn’t the outcome of an intellectual pursuit; it was, rather, instinctive and direct, to the point that music became the acoustic background of his very life. This naturalness is confirmed by the way his passion for music was born and grew: at first within his family and later on in meetings with friends who happened to be musicians and in fortuitous encounters, almost never along the traditional avenues of concert halls and opera-houses. Sozzi was fond of saying of himself that he was “just a lover of music”, but he would talk about music with a flair that revealed deep acumen and mature connoisseurship, especially evident in his autobiographical volume Why I love music and in his essays written for the Teatro Regio of Turin. In them his familiarity with literary sources, such as Goethe, Mérimée, Anatole France and Beaumarchais, opened the way to fresh interpretations of musical works deriving from them. The amount of music taken into consideration, including songs, is a concrete proof of the capital role Enlightenment and French culture of the xviiith century played in shaping Sozzi’s intellectual personality; at the same time his unending listening to music sheds light on the depth of his sensibility, which couldn’t but lead towards the shores of “décadence” and of modernity

IL WAGNER DI ADORNO TRA FANTASMAGORIA E REGRESSIONE

La relazione ha presentato alcuni aspetti teorici dell'interpretazione adorniana di Wagner alla luce della influenze di Lukacs, Horkheimer e Benjamin