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OPEN DAY FOR JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU PESCARA, 19th of JANUARY 2012
2012: JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU AND MUSIC PART 2
I came to Pescara five months ago
ITZIAR PEREZ DE ZIRIZA (SPAIN) COURSE IN HARPSICHORD
and I didn’t know I was going to stay here for studying.
In that occasion I met Prof. Massimo Salcito who told me about
the school of ancient music and the project Rousseau.
I was so interested that I decided to stay.
couldn’t imagine I could learn playing the harpsichord in so little time
but tomorrow I have my first public performance.
I’m very happy I’ll stay here for two years.
I came here two years ago from Hungary for studying at the Conservatory of Pescara.
NORA STEFKOVICS (HUNGARY) MASTER COURSE IN RECORDER
I play the recorder and I’m very happy Prof. Salcito invited me
to be involved in this event.
Tomorrow I’ll play as a soloist and in chamber ensemble.
Rousseau left Geneva on the 14th of March 1728
after several years of apprenticeship with a notary and an engraver.
After many wanderings, he met Françoise-Louise de Warens,
a Chatolic, Swiss baroness 13 years older than him.
She became his patron and, later, his lover.
He spent a lot of time travelling and he got several jobs:
for example at the the beginning of the 1730 decade
he worked as music teacher in Chambéry.
In 1736 he was at the de Warens again in a pleasant holiday
but in 1940 he left toward Lyon to work as teacher
for the young son of Gabriel Bonnet de Mably.
In 1742 he moved to Paris where, thanks to the Philomaths,
he submitted to the Science Academy
a new notation system he invented.
It was based on a single line where numbers represented intervals
whereas dots and commas represented rhythmic values.
This idea was related to the demand of a system compatible with typography.
Unfortunately the Academy refused it as useless and unoriginal.
From 1743 to 1744 he was secretary of the French ambassador in Venice.
He’ll quote the republican government of this city in his books about politics.
BASSON: Peio Berasategui HARPSICHORD: Itziar Perez de Ziriza
NARRATOR: Fabio D’Onofrio TEXT: Massimo Salcito
VIDEO MADE BY: Manichino d’Ottone
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