The 20th Rovereto International Mozart Festival continues tomorrow, Sunday 30th September, with the following events:

At 11 a.m. in the Palazzo de Probizer at Isera, "Mozart through the looking-glass” by Open Trios, a group comprising a narrator (Roberto Braida), a pianist (Giovanni Bietti), a violinist (Giovanni Pandolfo) and a percussionist (Luca Caponi).
Musicologist Danilo Faravelli explains that the actor’s job is "to pry into the vices and virtues of Mozart the man, restoring him as far as possible to the atmosphere of his time and to the background of the many different worlds to which his innumerable travels took him; the task of the three instrumentalists is to experiment, starting from tiny snippets of music from the immense corpus of Mozart’s work, with a series of sound games based on the difference between the predictable and the unpredictable as produced by the "collision” between the voices of two classical machines like the piano and the violin and the dry modern quality of the percussive sound”. The audience are certainly in for an unusual performance, in both form and content.

In the afternoon, at 5 o’clock in the Rovereto Philharmonic Hall, pianist Sigrid Trummer will be featured in a concert which the Mozart Festival, in conjunction with the Austrian Forum for Culture, is devoting to the exploration of a little-known world, namely that of female composers who were Mozart’s contemporaries. The concert will include music by Josepha Auernhammer (1758-1820), a pupil of the great Amadeus, who has gone down in Mozartian history not only for her extraordinary talent but also because of her extremely unbecoming appearance; Marianne Auenbrugger (died 1786), whom we can rediscover on this occasion through her Sonata in E flat major for Harpsichord or Fortepiano, published posthumously by Artaria in 1787; Maria Theresia Paradies (1759-1824), represented in the programme with a Fantasia in G major written in the early years of the 19th century (it was probably to her that Mozart, during one of the happiest periods in his career as a virtuoso composer, dedicated the B Flat major concerto K456 in 1784). As musicologist Danilo Faravelli reminds us: " Paradies was struck by progressive blindness during childhood, and was entrusted, with no success whatever, to the fashionable treatment devised by Anton Mesmer, a physician suspected of being a charlatan, whose therapeutic theories were based on animal magnetism, and who was to be immortally satirized in the finale of Act One of Così fan tutte”. Marianna Martines (1744-1812), a very popular composer in the Hapsburg capital, whose salon was frequented weekly by the finest musical minds in the city, including Mozart (Sonata in E Major). And the Venetian Anna Bon, mentioned in a 1789 document as " a virtuosa at the court of Potsdam”, but about whose life we have very little information. Hers is the G minor Sonata which will be performed in this recital.
The only exception in this all-female programme is Mozart’s C minor Sonata KV 457, which he composed for Therese von Trattner (1758-1793), perhaps the most beautiful of his pupils. "She was married off at a very early age to Johann Thomas von Trattner (1717-1798)”, says Faravelli, "so it is hardly surprising that she should have flirted with a man of almost her own age - her piano teacher – who was certainly not insensitive to the charms of a beautiful woman; he was not only a man well known for his outstanding genius, but one whom we can easily imagine as being of a highly sensual nature. The trouble was that the elderly husband, who, as well as being one of the wealthiest and most cultured entrepreneurs in the capital (court printer, publisher and bookseller), was also the landlord of Mozart and his wife at the time of the dedication of the C minor Fantasia + Sonata. Is it any wonder then that almost immediately after the dedication the man who had penned it had to look urgently for new rented accommodation in Vienna?"

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students 5 €.

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