How the furniture that decorated the hall of the house turned out to be a noble instrument made by ‘the father of the pianoforte’
Interview with Anna Cuatrecasas, President of Muzio Clementi of Barcelona Association for El Periódico of may 2nd 2017
Participation in the annual meeting of THE HISTORICAL KEYBOARD SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (HKSNA) in Greenville (South Carolina) (April 2017)
Marina Rodríguez Brià was invited to participate in the meeting of the HKSNA, where she performed at the inaugural concert, playing chamber music in a square piano Longman & Clementi of 1799 with other American musicians.
She also offered a conference-concert entitled “Fernando Sor in London: His relationship with the London Pianoforte School”. In this lecture she played a Broadwood Grand Piano (1791, London).
The report in the HKSNA Newsletter says: “Marina Rodríguez Brìa, our special guest from Spain who received lots of compliments for her fine performance in the opening night concert, talked about Fernando Sor and his connection with the London Piano School. We were treated with his piano music not often heard in concerts”. HKSNA Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 2 2017
It was given on November 24, 2016 at L’Auditori
Participation in the series of lectures “Musical Instruments in Study”, series of conferences around the collections of the Museum of Music of Barcelona. Lecture “Clementi, musician and manufacturer”, in which Marina Rodriguez Brià reviewed the life of the composer and his vision of music and piano as an instrument full of potentiality and to which he devoted his whole life .
“England around a piano. Music, art and society.
The passage from the 18th century to the XIXth through the multifaceted musician Muzio Clementi ”
Description of the course
The cosmopolitan musician Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) will be the driving force behind a Europe full of changes. Music, but also art, society, and musical commerce, will bring us closer to the day to day from the England Industrial Revolution
The course took place from July 11 to 15, 2016 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (Total: 20h) at the Faculty of Geography and History of the UB
The following topics were developed:
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1. Muzio Clementi, multifaceted and cosmopolitan musician. [Marina Rodríguez Brià] |
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2. 19th Century engineering and the crescendo of the piano. [Dr. Thomas Strange] |
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3. The British domestic interiors. An ideal place to host a piano. [Dra. Mireia Freixa] |
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4. Commented recital: At home in England. [Dr. Patrick Hawkins] |
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5. The musical map of the time of Clementi. [Dr. Xosé Aviñoa] |
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6. Passion, transcendence and sublime: English painting at the time of Clementi. [Dra. Cristina Rodríguez] |
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7. Clementi in the context of the English culture of Enlightenment. [Dra. Carme Font] |
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8. Revolutions, machines and music in Europe in 1800. [Oriol Brugarolas] |
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9. Musical life in London and the provinces during Clementi’s early years 1770-1800. [Dr. Matthew Spring] |
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10. The legacy of Clementi. Roundtable. [Jaume Ayats, Joan Josep Gutiérrez i Marina Rodríguez Brià] |
A MUSICAL TRAVEL WITH CLEMENTI
The birth of the romantic piano and the change of social paradigm of 1800
Through the multifaceted musician Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) we will enter into a Europe full of innovations and transcendental changes. The eighty years of intense life of this composer will lead us from Maria Antonieta to anarchism, from Mozart to Chopin, from Italy to England.
We will reconstruct a portrait of the time from documents, letters, instruments, music, literature and painting of the moment.
Half of the sessions were illustrated with live music.
The coordination was carried out by Marina Rodríguez Brià and Eva M. Álvarez
Lecturer: Marina Rodríguez Brià
Guest lecturer: Joan Josep Gutiérrez
April 20 to June 22, 2016
20 teaching hours
Course Description: GAUDIR UB 2016
Assistance to the International Conference of Lucca, “Muzio Clementi and the British Musical Scene” (November 2015).
Anna Cuatrecasas, Eva M. Álvarez and Marina Rodríguez attended this conference held in Lucca (Italy), which would be the starting point for many activities and the turning point to create the Muzio Clementi Association of Barcelona. In this lecture they could meet some of the leading international specialists about Clementi and on the British musical scene, such as David Rowland, Roberto Iliano, Luca Sala, Leon Plantinga, Fulvia Moravito, Rohan H. Stewart Mac-Donald, Tom Strange, Patrick Hawkins, Mathew Spring and many others.
On June 10, 2015, the official presentation of the CD “Clementi on a Clementi & Co. Square Piano“, in which the artist Marina Rodríguez Brià makes a selection of pieces by Muzio Clementi who plays in a private piano of private property, dated 1824 and from the composer’s own piano factory in London.
The presentation was attended by representatives of different cultural and musical entities (Museum of Music, Auditorium, Liceu Conservatory) and the media of the country (Catalunya Música, La Vanguardia, Ara, Revista Musical Catalana, among others).
