Seminar by Alessandro Maras (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)
27/09/2023, ore 10, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Aula Pirrotta
From the musical point of view, the long-lasting monarchy of the last pope-king, admittedly little interested in artistic matters, was characterized not only by that censorial regulation about which much has been written, but also by the confluence and influence of different musical cultures. The decades-long foreign occupations (French in Rome and Austrian in the Legations), the difficult penetration of international music both learned and for entertainment, the popular and political song, the absence of a real system of musical production and education, or finally the centuries-old Capitoline multiculturalism are only some of the elements that distinguished the music of the Papal State in the second half of the nineteenth century within the European context.