Nono's world seen by Giovanni Morelli: utopian nostalgia and current perspectives

An affinity relationship binds Giovanni Morelli to Luigi Nono. The musicologist teaching at Ca' Foscari lived in the same streets as the Venetian composer, following his creative parable and interpreting his legacy of sounds and ideals (just remember the Portrait of Luigi Nono of 1995, in which the most daring expository imagination combines with the rigor of historiographical investigation, or the essays dedicated to symbolic works of the 'late style', such as The breathing clarity e Prometheus). Although crucial, Morelli's contribution still remains in the shadows, awaiting an examination that reveals its premises and intuitions.
On the centenary of Nono's birth, this conference attempts for the first time a comparison - or rather, a meeting of glances - between the figure of the musician and that of the scholar, making use of some ideas developed by a research group that for two years questions himself about Morell's themes (for more information: https://www.fondazionelevi.it/ricerca/il-novecento-di-giovanni-morelli-prove-di-esegesi-sugli-scritti/). The competition of speakers from outside the group will only enrich the opportunities for debate, in a journey that explores various aspects of the 'Nono-Morelli' dyad: the hypothesis of a Venetian school, descending from the lesson of Gian Francesco Malipiero; the genre of portraiture as an escape from the academicism of musicological discourse; the analysis of the works in light of archival sources; and finally the poetics of distance, which also becomes the possibility of grasping intersections between compositional languages, echoes of the twentieth-century past in today's music.

Scientific Committee:
Francesco Fontanelli (conception and coordination), Roberto Calabretto, Angela Ida De Benedictis, Laurent Feneyrou, Veniero Rizzardi, Giada Viviani.

Program

Friday May 17 2024
Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation, Library

16:00
INSTITUTIONAL GREETINGS AND INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK
Davide Croff e Roberto Calabretto
Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation

16:15
FIRST SESSION
Chair
Francesco Fontanelli
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, AvH Stiftung

Alessandro Maras
Sapienza University of Rome
Test of a portrait of Venice according to Giovanni Morelli, between Malipiero, Maderna and Nono

Emanuele Franceschetti
'Umberto Giordano' Conservatory, Foggia
The Morelli line of portraits: Luigi Nono, the 'lyrical you' and the challenge of the musicological 'discourse'

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17:30
Chair
Gianfranco Vinay
Université Paris 8

Francesca Scigliuzzo
University of Udine
On the trail of Nono and Morelli in search of the unsuspecting subversion

Simonetta Sargenti
'Guido Cantelli' Conservatory, Novara
Listening to space and observing sound: a new vision of music in Luigi Nono's latest works

Erik Esterbauer
Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg
Do you have any fireplace? Morelli's Ideas on There are no paths to walk… Andrej Tarkowskij in Recent Reflections

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Saturday May 18 2024
Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation, Library

9:30
SECOND SESSION
Laurent Feneyrou
Ircam, Paris
Distances and other listenings

10:30
Chair
Claudio Ambrosini
composer

Sebastiano Gubian
Universität der Künste, Berlin
Luigi Nono and Iannis Xenakis, an aesthetic-political comparison

Maurizio Azzan
'Lucio Campiani' Conservatory, Mantua
Distances and spaces today: some reflections on Many ed Eclipse Plumage by Clara Iannotta

11:45
CONCLUSIVE DEBATE
with Giada Viviani, Veniero Rizzardi and external discussants

The conference will be in italian