Concert - Les Génies

Internationally renowned early-music specialist and soprano Maria Ladurner, recorder player Anne-Suse Enßle and Ensemble Maddalena turn their attention – or rather, our ears – to pioneering works of European High Baroque music in their programme “Les Génies”. Works by celebrated masters such as Bach, Vivaldi and Handel are presented alongside those of female composers well worth rediscovering: at just 22, Mademoiselle Duval – whose first name Louise has not been documented with certainty – composed the opera “Les Génies ou les Charactères de l’Amour”. With her Sonata in B-flat major, Anna Amalia of Prussia paved the way towards the early Classical period with an innovative style. Julie Pinel came from a family of musicians and, at the age of 26, was granted the rare privilege for a woman at the time of publishing her own works, including a collection of arias. Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre is often referred to today as the “Mozart of the French High Baroque”, having performed before Louis XIV at just five years old. Mrs Philharmonica – a pseudonym believed to have concealed a female composer – published twelve trio sonatas in London in 1715, helping to establish in England the new style associated with Arcangelo Corelli. A musical journey of discovery!

Tickets: www.kulturinstitut.org.

Funded by: Autonomous Province of Bolzano, South Tyrolean Savings Bank Foundation

Supported by: Finstral

In cooperation with: Bruneck Music School, Bolzano Concert Society