CONCERTS 2026 | SYMPHONY
MARKUS STENZ
PANFILI Inhabiting the battle
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 in D minor for soloists, choir and orchestra op. 125
Director
Markus Stenz
Program
Riccardo Panfili
Inhabiting the battle
In 2017, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino asked composer Riccardo Panfili (b. 1979) to work on a piece that would introduce Beethoven’s Ninth and flow directly into the buzz of empty fifths from which Beethoven’s last symphonic masterpiece rises. During his first reflections on the difficult undertaking, Panfili found himself reading “Inhabiting the Battle,” Gabriele Baldini’s great unfinished book dedicated to Verdi. “I realized that in my mind,” the composer recounted, “by an unfathomable process, the term ‘battle’ had always united the bearded figure of Verdi with the scapigliata figure of Beethoven […]. So I imagined music that sought to embody the very posture of battle understood “as an inner experience.” A piece of music understood as Kampfplatz.“
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor for soloists, choir and orchestra op. 125
In writing the Ninth, Beethoven realized his old dream of setting to music Friedrich Schiller’s ode To Joy (1786), in which the values of brotherhood and freedom were extolled. In the first version Schiller had placed the word
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Chorus Master Gea Garatti Ansini
45 min. before the start of the concert, the audience is invited to an in-depth discussion of the program by Luca Baccolini, which will be held on the lower floor of the Theater.
Luca Baccolini
journalist, music popularizer and writer, works with the Bologna editorial office of Repubblica and is on the editorial staff of the monthly Classic Voice. For Newton Compton he has published ten books on the history of Bologna. He is the author of theatrical subjects and collaborates as an essayist and popularizer with the most important Italian lyrical symphonic institutions.
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SECTOR 3
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SECTOR 4
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