Milan, 21-23 November 2022
Conference promoted by the Italian Society of Musicology in collaboration with the “G. Verdi” Conservatory of Milan, the University of Milan, and FuoriOpera. The conference is made possible thanks to the contribution of MiBAC.
Programme: Monday 21 November – 3:00 p.m.
Institutional greetings
Session I – The Milanese context: places and institutions
Chair Claudio Toscani
Bianca Maria Antolini, Musical life in Milan at the beginning of the twentieth century
Ettore Borri-Antonio Polignano, The Milan Music School: private teaching and social implications between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Roberta De Piccoli, “Dear Nino, […] What became of your youthful oratorio of St John the Baptist?” Chronicles from music education in early twentieth-century Milan
Marina Vaccarini, The Società Umanitaria and the Popular University for the dissemination of musical culture in Milan at the beginning of the twentieth century
Marco Brighenti – Valentina Trovato, “L’antipode de Bayreuth”. The Salone Perosi in Milan: an unpublished testimony by Romain Rolland
Tuesday 22 November – 9:30 a.m.
Session II – The Milanese context: people and activities
Chair Bianca Maria Antolini
Matteo Marni, Not only Cecilians. The two souls of sacred music in Milan in the years of Giacomo Orefice
Cecilia Delama, A man from Trentino in Milan: Giuseppe Terrabugio and the reform of sacred music between Italianness and Germanness
Cristina Cimagalli, “Conservatory or Musical University?”: a proposal by Orefice from 1918, with subsequent misunderstandings and bitter polemics.
Session III – The Milanese context: people and activities II
Chair Andrea Estero
Carlo Lo Presti, The concerts organized by Toscanini at the Milan Conservatory in 1918 and Italian music in the final phase of the First World War
Alessandro Restelli, “Ancient and rare instruments” in the city of Milan between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Anna Schivazappa, The spread of mandolin associations in Milan between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
3:30 p.m.
Session IV – Giacomo Orefice: the teacher and the musicologist
Chair Marina Vaccarini
Marta Crippa, The papers of Giacomo Orefice. A preliminary map among musical manuscripts, letters, notes, and reviews
Mariateresa Dellaborra, Figures and themes from the correspondence
Marco Targa, Music and nationalist ideology in the years of the Great War: Orefice’s position
Session V – Giacomo Orefice: the teacher and the musicologist II
Chair Guido Salvetti
Paola Cossu, Giacomo Orefice and the debate on musical studies between Croceans and positivists in the postwar period
Candida Felici, Giacomo Orefice in the Italian landscape of the early twentieth century, between the recovery of the past and modernity
Valentina Cucinotta, Giacomo Orefice’s adaptation of Rameau’s Platée (1921) for the Istituto Giosuè Carducci of Como
7:00 p.m.
Concert of music by Giacomo Orefice organized by the “G. Verdi” Conservatory of Music
Wednesday 23 November – 9:00 a.m.
Session VI – Giacomo Orefice and his work
Chair Fabrizio Dorsi
Maria Adele Ambrosio, The myth of Chopin at the dawn of the twentieth century in the music of Giacomo Orefice
Giacomo Agosti, Chopin goes to war
Michela Alfieri, Perspectives for reflection on Giacomo Orefice’s opera Chopin
Session VII – Giacomo Orefice and his work II
Chair Mariateresa Dellaborra
Cristina Isabel Pina Caballero, Giacomo Orefice in Spain: the premiere of Il Gladiatore (1898) at the Teatro Real in Madrid as seen through the press
Matteo Malagoli, Chamber music in Giacomo Orefice (1865-1922) and the cello in Italian Jewish composers between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Francesco Passadore, Poetry and painting in the piano compositions of Giacomo Orefice: a melancholy anthology
Eleonora Pipia, The fantastic and the tragic: Il castello del sogno, Giacomo Orefice’s last unpublished effort
Scientific Committee:
Bianca Maria Antolini
Mariateresa Dellaborra
Teresa M. Gialdroni
Andrea Gottfried
Claudio Toscani
Marina Vaccarini
