objectives
BAROQUE is a project that offers to favour and develop the intercultural dialogue by way of collaboration between cultural operators in Italy, Slovenia and Romania with reference to the baroque music, which nowadays, more than ever, represents a meeting point of different cultures. In the past, music, the universal language, has surmounted all barriers and fences among people and it is from this point of view that the idea of the BAROQUE project was conceived.
Baroque music is in fact an expression of enlightenment (rationality, sentiment and artistic sense), informed thought that quickly becomes common throughout the greater part of Europe. From studies of the original scores it can clearly be seen a common use of these in lots of European countries: in fact in the realization of the project we will reach a strong artistic and cultural integration thanks to which we obtain important results from the reciprocal exchange of knowledge and the exchange of musical experiences deriving form the diverse cultures.
The project intends to promote an international circulation of musical works, that are part of a common cultural heritage, the mobility of musicians and artists between the three countries and the research of inter-connections that can create a strong relationship among different cultural policies.
Why the baroque period and baroque music were chosen?
Regarding
the reasons of why the baroque period and baroque music were chosen, we would
like to point out that the Baroque of the Seventeenth century represented a
cultural revolution: a new relationship between human and political conduct had
started to form, and the culture has represented as always the way forward for
the growth of mankind. Culture that was and is, we strongly believe, the
fundamental element for the life of mankind.
Baroque invented opera (in music, in painting and in poetry) or the “puzzle” in which all art forms merge into a single art. Painting comes out of its frame and is realized in sculptures of polychromatic marble; sculpture goes beyond and is realized in architecture; architecture in its turn finds in its façade a painting, but the latter also moves away from the internal and sets itself with other surrounding external elements, in a way that realizes urbanistic architecture. Music reaches out from a purely vocal environment by amplifying ever more the instrumental “autonomy” arriving at a perfect synthesis in the operatic creations.
This extensive unit of the arts forms a universal theatre. Baroque music manifests its powerful actions, not only in the sacred music (Il Messia by G.Fr. Handel, Jephte by G. Carissimi, le Cantate by J.S. Bach …), but also in the profane music of Opera (from Euridice by G. Caccini all’Orfeo, to the Incoronazione di Poppea by C. Monteverdi) and of Orchestral Concerts (Vivaldi, Marcello, Tartini, Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, etc.).
Our project includes, nevertheless, also late Baroque (as a prelude to the classical and then romantic styles), with particularly interesting contributions of the Hebrew and Lutheran music, as well as popular music specially dances.
In fact the proposed programs take all this into account: a splendid example of this can be found in “Codex Caioni” – a collection of baroque compositions found in Transylvania. Around 1650 Johannes Caioni, an active Franciscan choirmaster and organist, at the monastery of Miercurea Ciuc in Transylvania, could not imagine the interest that the discovery of his manuscript, the Codex Caioni, inside a wall of the monastery, would arouse in 1986. In effect, Caioni did not think it necessary to note, in its entirety, the over 400 motets, liturgical and profane pieces by Carissimi, Schutz, Monteverdi and of the Slovenian Gallus, as well the dances: the Codex Caioni is a irrevocable testament to the centrality of the principality of Transylvania in the Seventeenth century Europe; the dances were those in vogue in Vienna or Paris, the sacred music was the same as that heard in Rome, Venice and elsewhere. This summarizes and, above all, mirrors the cultural diversity and religious tolerance that characterized this principality.
The excellence of the cultural activities proposed is given by the typology of the works that will be performed, – often also unpublished and therefore presented for the first time – written by the most famous composers, recognized throughout the world, and by the fact that the concerts organized will be carried out by some of the artists, well known at a national level. A brief description of these projects are attached.
