The second weekend of the Mozart Festival continues on Saturday morning 6th October at 11 a.m. in the Palazzo de Pizzini at Ala with a journey through the music of the genius of Salzburg as seen through the eyes of later composers, performed by the Andrea Dindo and Marco Rogliano Duo.

The opening work is the Twelve variations in F major on "Se vuol ballare" from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, WoO 40, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1792 and 1793, at a time when the legend of Amadeus, shortly after his death, was beginning to grow. "The true protagonist in this duet", writes musicologist Danilo Faravelli, "is the ghost of Mozart".

Next will be Reminiscences by Franz Liszt (1811-1886), published in 1852 with the title Grand Duo concertant sur la Romance de M. Lafont "Le Marin".

The next item in the programme is Mozart’s Sonata in B flat major KV 454, which the composer himself entered in his personal catalogue of his works under the date 21st April 1784. "A model of excellence in the art of communicating as a couple at the very highest level of fluency", writes Faravelli, "the interplay of dialogue between the two instruments is very clearly based on the absolute technical skill and refined taste which Mozart brought to the composition of this masterpiece. Conceived for himself and for the violinist Regina Strinasacchi (1761-1839), who was staying briefly in Vienna during a tour, this original instrumental work was first performed in public at the Carinthian Gate Theatre on the evening of 29th April 1784".

Lastly, after the Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt, a work by a contemporary Trento composer, Carlo Galante (born 1959). His Tre gradi dell’invocazione ("Three degrees of invocation"), a work composed in 1999 and since then frequently performed at important concerts, is, in the words of its composer, a piece that evokes a rite of passage, a metaphor "for a mystical backward journey from the sky to the earth, from the immobility of the icon to the movement of dance. Every rite has to do with the sacred", continues Galante, "and with the metamorphosis that the profane undergo during the ritual which brings them closer to sacredness; this piece is an attempt to express the very earthly and human journey towards interior change through constant variations on short, precise, jagged musical phrases which mark the various stages in this process of evolution".

The artists:
Andrea Dindo is a pianist and conductor. He studied composition under Renato Dionisi and orchestral conducting technique under Piero Bellugi. A prize-winner in the Paris International Chamber Music Competition, he has for a number of years been pursuing a busy career as a concert performer, playing at prestigious venues around the world.

Marco Rogliano began his musical career at a very early age, and perfected his violin studies under Ruggiero Ricci, Riccardo Brengola and Salvatore Accardo. He has performed as a soloist and in chamber music at major venues both in Italy and abroad, and has recently been playing as First Violin at the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan. Marco Rogliano plays a Nicola Bergonzi (Cremona,1790) provided by the Maggini Foundation in Langenthal (Switzerland).

Ticket prices: 16 € (full price), 12 € (reduced price), 5 € (students)