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OPEN DAY FOR JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU PESCARA, 19th of JANUARY 2012
2012: JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU AND MUSIC PART 1
This day about Jean Jacques Rousseau is not only interesting
PROF. MASSIMO SALCITO
CHAIRMAN - CENTRO STUDI PER LA MUSICA ANTICA “G. D’ANNUNZIO”
but also as variegated as the several interests Rousseau had in sociology,
politics, philosophy, pedagogy and in music too, field in which
we’re more interested.
In this extraordinary kermess we’ll have music, speeches, a musical instruments exhibition
and, above all, the presence of several experts.
This experience will allow us to reconstruct this great and eclectic
character who left his mark in 18th century European culture.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born on June 28th, 1712 in Geneva
and during his entire life he was proud of being Genevan.
His mother Suzanne Bernard Rousseau died a week later
due to postnatal complications. His father, Isaac,
a middle class watchmaker, fostered him with a family in 1722 when,
after a fight, he was exiled from the Swiss city.
During his childhood, Rousseau was taught in an unusual way:
latin classics were privileged to academic texts. He was an imaginative,
intelligent and creative young man as well as a premature and untiring reader.
He was trained through texts such as the Bible, Plutarch’s "Parallels Lives"
and Calvin’s moralistic sermons, well known in Geneva given that
Calvino was been governor of the city for several years.
Rousseau left Geneva on the 14th of March 1728 after several years
of apprenticeship with a notary and an engraver.
Despite his training, on the 12th of April 1728 he entered
the catechumens hospice in Turin in order to abandon Calvinism.
He became a Catholic always keeping a Calvinist mind
till his final conversion to Deism as he explains in
“The Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar” in the fourth book of the “Emilio”.
RECORDER: Nora Stefkovics HARPSICHORD: Massimo Salcito
NARRATOR: Fabio D’Onofrio TEXT: Massimo Salcito
VIDEO MADE BY: Manichino d’Ottone
IN COLLABORATION WITH: Medea Videolinguaggi �