Lionello Sozzi e la sua esperienza della musica
Lionello Sozzi’s relationship with music wasn’t the outcome of an intellectual pursuit; it was, rather, instinctive and direct, to the point that music became the acoustic background of his very life. This naturalness is confirmed by the way his passion for music was born and grew: at first within h...
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Studi Francesi
2016
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | Lionello Sozzi’s relationship with music wasn’t the outcome of an intellectual pursuit; it was, rather, instinctive and direct, to the point that music became the acoustic background of his very life. This naturalness is confirmed by the way his passion for music was born and grew: at first within his family and later on in meetings with friends who happened to be musicians and in fortuitous encounters, almost never along the traditional avenues of concert halls and opera-houses. Sozzi was fond of saying of himself that he was “just a lover of music”, but he would talk about music with a flair that revealed deep acumen and mature connoisseurship, especially evident in his autobiographical volume Why I love music and in his essays written for the Teatro Regio of Turin. In them his familiarity with literary sources, such as Goethe, Mérimée, Anatole France and Beaumarchais, opened the way to fresh interpretations of musical works deriving from them. The amount of music taken into consideration, including songs, is a concrete proof of the capital role Enlightenment and French culture of the xviiith century played in shaping Sozzi’s intellectual personality; at the same time his unending listening to music sheds light on the depth of his sensibility, which couldn’t but lead towards the shores of “décadence” and of modernity. |
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