PIANOAmadeo, Gaetano
Tochno Annic Eizov, Sonate hypothétique de Gaetano Amadeo - Premier mouvement
Amadeo, Gaetano - Tochno Annic Eizov, Hypothetical Sonata by Gaetano Amadeo - First movement
Composed on a selection of themes taken from "Twenty verses for Organ", 1848-1849
Piano solo
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Composer :
Gaetano Amadeo
Amadeo, Gaetano (1824 - 1893)
Instrumentation :

Piano solo

Style :

Studies

Key :D major
Arranger :
Publisher :
Zencovich, Antonio (1953 - )
Date :2022
Copyright :Copyright © Antonio Zencovich
Added by anan, 01 Jan 2023

Il prossimo anno ricorrerà il secondo centenario della nascita del compositore Gaetano Amadeo (Porto Maurizio 1824 - Nizza 1893), allievo di Giovanni Pacini e Gioacchino Rossini, che fu attivo come organista in Francia presso la cattedrale di Marsiglia e altrove. Segnaliamo l’avvenimento con opportuno anticipo, come abbiamo fatto dodici mesi fa per ricordare l’analoga ricorrenza relativa alla pubblicazione dell’op. 120 di Beethoven, allo scopo di dare il tempo di prepararsi a chi, eventualmente in qualche posto lontanissimo del mondo, fosse interessato a fare conoscere - in pubblico o in privato - la musica di un autore poco noto, ma di facile esecuzione e di gradevole ascolto, che spesso lascia l’impressione di essere stata già sentita da qualche parte.
Sebbene realizzata a fini liturgici, essa attinge infatti largamente alla produzione laica dell’epoca, e se in alcuni casi - come vedremo ai numeri 5 e 7 della nostra raccolta - sono presenti dei richiami embrionali alla tradizione colta di ascendenza bachiana, nei rimanenti appare influenzata soprattutto dai "classici" Mozart e Clementi (il quale nelle scuole musicali italiane del tempo godeva di una considerazione non inferiore al primo), nonché dall’opera lirica italiana anteriore a Giuseppe Verdi. Per dare un nome a una simile componente edonistica e antiascetica, sottolineata dai nostri arrangiamenti, abbiamo scelto quello di "Melodie tra il sacro e il profano", che potrebbe rappresentare il titolo di insieme di una celebrazione simbolica condotta in maniera indipendente da associazioni varie, concorsi e giurie che facciano riferimento al nome del compositore e soprattutto lontano dai riti tendenziosi, nonché molto spesso includenti (soprattutto da queste parti) dell’ufficialità.
A noi e ad altri storici l’Amadeo era noto da decenni come il musicista che, tra le altre cose, aveva collaudato il primo gennaio 1848 l’organo della nuova collegiata di S. Maurizio, realizzato da Luigi e Giacomo Lingiardi di Pavia, ai quali avrebbe anche fornito dei suggerimenti tecnici in base all’esperienza raccolta a partire da quell’anno sugli organi francesi. Ma a proposito della sua copiosa produzione (citata dall'enciclopedia Treccani e in massima misura non ancora reperibile sul web) nessuno avrebbe saputo dire molto. Comunque, proprio con riferimento alla performance che il musicista tenne 175 anni fa nella vistosa chiesa che avevamo studiato a lungo più di quarant’anni fa e ci capita di vedere tutti i giorni dalle nostre finestre, abbiamo pensato di far coincidere con il capodanno la pubblicazione del primo movimento di questa "Sonata ipotetica", a lui attribuita - pure in questo caso - in maniera simbolica.[…]

Next year will mark the second birth centenary of the composer Gaetano Amadeo (Porto Maurizio 1824 - Nice 1893), a pupil of Giovanni Pacini and Gioacchino Rossini, who was active as an organist in France at the Marseille cathedral and elsewhere. We report the event well in advance, as we did twelve months ago to remember the similar anniversary relating to the publication of opus 120 by Beethoven, in order to give time to prepare for those who, possibly in some very distant place in the world, would be interested in making known - in public or in private - the music of a little-known author, but easy to perform and pleasant listening, which often leaves behind the impression of having already been heard somewhere.
Although made for liturgical purposes, it draws heavily on the secular production of the time, and if in some cases - as we will see in numbers 5 and 7 of our review - there are embryonic references to the cultured tradition of Bachian ancestry, in other cases it appears influenced above all from the "classics" Mozart and Clementi (who in the Italian musical schools of the time enjoyed no less consideration than the first) as well as from the Italian melodrama prior to Giuseppe Verdi. We have chosen the definition "Melodie tra sacro e profano" to descrive such a hedonistic and antiascetic component, underlined by our arrangements. It could represent the overall title of a symbolic celebration conducted independently by various associations, competitions and juries that refer to the name of composer, and above all far from tendentious rites as well as much often including (especially around here) of official customs.
To us and to other historians Amadeo had been known for decades as the musician who, among other things, had tested on 1 January 1848, in the new collegiate church of S. Maurizio, the organ built by Luigi and Giacomo Lingiardi of Pavia, to whom he would also provide technical suggestions based on the experience gathered from that year on French organs. But about his copious production (cited in Treccani Encyclopaedia and to a large extent not yet available on the web), no one would have been able to say much. However, precisely with reference to performances that the composer gave 175 years ago in the showy church that we had studied for a long time more than forty years ago, and we see every day from our windows, we decided to make coincide with the New Year's Eve the publication of the first movement of this "hypothetical Sonata", also in this case attributed to him in a symbolic way.
Five years ago, in proposing a version in B major of his "Offertoire septième", we noticed how Gaetano Amadeo had always been and continues to be forgotten in his country of origin. This happened in 2018, when his name was beginning to emerge from oblivion at an editorial level. Two years later, in 2020, a sort of celebration committee has been formed in Imperia, which, it is not known whether on the basis of conflicting sources or in a completely arbitrary way, anticipated the centenary by four years. We ignore if new initiatives will now be proposed for this second-second centenary. But, should this happen, it would be appropriate that the same ones do not deal other time with it. Those, by now, have already celebrated their anniversary.

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