Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , composer and pianist of the 20th century, will be the protagonist of the first edition of "The forgotten greats" , a cycle of twenty-two events including conferences and concerts which will involve as many teachers and more than one hundred students of the "GP da Palestrina" Conservatory ” of Cagliari .
Italian and naturalized American, he will be rediscovered in the opening event on Sunday 22nd which will see the presence of his granddaughter, Diana Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and other descendants of the USA.
The event starts at 5pm, in the “Franco Oppo” main hall, with the musicologist Myriam Quaquero who will hold a conference on the theme “Style and ideas, the creative path of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco” and Riccardo Rosas who will interview the composer's granddaughter.
In the evening we get to the heart of things: at 7.30 pm it will be time for the inaugural symphonic concert of the Conservatory Orchestra, directed by maestro Sergio Monterisi and with the violin soloist Davide De Ascaniis . The piece Goccius (Laudi di Sant'Efisio), the overtures The Winter's Tale and The Twelfth Night, and the compositions “The Prophets” will be performed.
Regarding Goccius, Castelnuovo-Tedesco wrote in reference to 1937: «That summer, I had composed a short choral piece, “Goccius”, on a Sardinian popular theme (the laudes of Sant'Efisio) which had been requested of me for a gathering of Italian musicians in Cagliari (where I didn't go); I therefore took the manuscript, tied it with a red ribbon (as if it were an ancient parchment), inserted a sprig of juniper (since we lived at Ginepro at the time), and wrote the [...] dedication in the most perfect D'Annunzio style".
