Vienna ensemble pro vs dante
Michelangelo La Luna, Department of Modern and Classical Languagesĭaniela Roma graduated in piano with honors from the Conservatory “F. Recorded live at Edwards Auditorium, University of Rhode Islandĭirected by Spenser G. Under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic The 21 st Annual Week of Italian Language in the World is organized Others see it as the complete opposite: the rapid chromatic octave section at the end of the piece represents the three heads of Satan in Dante's Inferno and hence Liszt would be referring only to Hell, as also Victor Hugo does in his poem. According to some musicologists, the work also contains references to Dante’s Paradise, because in the final part we finally see the light and, hence, Heaven itself. There are two interpretations of the sonata. The central part of the piece describes the tormented love between Paolo and Francesca, as recounted in Canto V of The Divine Comedy. The piece begins with the metaphorical sound of the trumpets announcing Dante’s descent into hell, recreating the groans and desperation of the damned souls encountered by Dante. It was first performed in Vienna in November 1839, but upon moving to Weimar in 1849, Liszt revised the sonata and gave it its current title, based on Victor Hugo's eponymous poem. The Dante Sonata was originally a small musical piece, composed by Liszt in 1830, and divided into two thematic movements. Clearly inspired by Alighieri’s poem, it was first published in 1856 as part of the second volume of the Années de pèlerinage or “Years of Pilgrimage”, and it is considered one of the most difficult piano pieces ever written. Many composers have been inspired by Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian literature.Īprès une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata (“After a reading of Dante: A Fantasia, almost a Sonata”), also known as The Dante Sonata, is a musical work in one movement composed by Franz Liszt in 1849. Liszt, a piece inspired by the composer's reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy. In this video, recorded live at the Edwards Auditorium, University of Rhode Island, pianist Daniela Roma interprets Fantasia quasi Sonata by F.