TIANA 2018 OPENING CONCERT “Voices of wood and crystal”

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The Tiana Antica 2018 Festival opened May 26 with the concert “Voices of wood and crystal”, by Marina Rodríguez Brià, with a square piano Collard & Collard, late Clementi, Collard & Collard of 1843, and Montserrat Gascón, with a glass flute by Claude Laurent of 1823.

The program included works by Clementi, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Drouet, Meyerbeer and Dussek, all of them related in some way to the historical instruments that were presented.

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THE ASSOCIATION VISITS LA MASIA D’EN CABANYES

The Association visited La Masia d’en Cabanyes in Vilanova i La Geltrú, a house-museum where the romantic poet Manuel de Cabanyes lived. Currently it houses the Center of Interpretation of the Romanticism that takes its name. Among the family legacy, with original 19th century rooms, objects and period decorations, you can admire the piano Clementi & Co. that is in the hall of the dome, object of the visit of the AMCB.

You can read more about this visit by following this link.

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EXHIBITION

Muzio Clementi per Carme

Muzio Clementi, The Father of the Pianoforte

Palau de la Música Catalana

Barcelona, from March 9 to 23, 2018

The Muzio Clementi Association of Barcelona, in collaboration with the Maria Canals International Music Competition of Barcelona, will present the exhibition “Muzio Clementi, The Father of the Pianoforte” at the Foyer of the Palau de la Música Catala

A brief but intense journey through the path of the multifaceted and fascinating Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) through his facets of man, musician and entrepreneur.

Buried in the Abbey of Westminter with the inscription: “Muzio Clementi, called The Father of the Pianoforte”. The exhibition could not fail to include a review of the history of the piano,completed with the exhibition of a historic fortepiano Collard & Collard. Late Clementi, Collard & Collard.

Free access during the opening hours of the Palau.

Credits

Exhibition organized by:

  • María Canals International Music Competition (MCB)
  • Muzio Clementi Association of Barcelona (AMCB)

With the collaboration of: Fundació Orfeó Català-Palau de la Música Catalana

Commissioner: Marina Rodríguez Brià

Content design: Joan Josep Gutiérrez and Marina Rodríguez Brià

Portrait of Muzio Clementi: Collage and oil on canvas, 146 × 114. Author: Carme Magem, 2018

Square Fortepiano: Collard & Collard, late Clementi, Collard & Collard. London 1843. Private collection.

Translation to English: Catherine Hart

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CLEMENTI DAY

Pianos Clementi navegant

PRESENTATION OF THE MUZIO CLEMENTI ASSOCIATION OF BARCELONA

Institut d’Estudis Catalans and Museum of Music of Barcelona

Barcelona, November 23, 2017

On November 23 took place the Clementi Day, organized by the Catalan Society of Musicology (SCMus), in collaboration with the Muzio Clementi Association of Barcelona (AMCB) and the Museum of Music of Barcelona. The sessions were held at the headquarters of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans in the morning and at the Museum of Music of Barcelona in the evening. The aim of the day was to officially present the Muzio Clementi Association of Barcelona and to offer some informative presentations about the figure of the great Italian musician and what he represents in the history of music. The latter in the main goal of AMCB.

The day began with the words of the director of the SCMus, Dr. Jordi Ballester, who welcomed the board of the Association and the speakers and stressed the interest generated by initiatives of an associative nature that work on the recovery of elements and cultural values. The president, Anna Cuatrecasas, thanked the reception of the institution and briefly reviewed the causes that had been involved in the project of the Association. Among these, one finds, on the one hand, the circumstance of being a proprietor from many years ago of a Clementi & Company piano and, on the other, having coincided with a group of enthusiastic people, with similar interests and with complementary abilities to carry out the project.

The vice president, Joan Josep Gutiérrez, focused his intervention on the objectives of the Association. He made a historical review of the origins of the interest on the figure of Clementi by Marina Rodríguez Brià until the moment in which the acquaintance with Anna Cuatrecasas took place in 2014. From that date until 2017, a short period of three years, the group of people that currently integrate the board of the Association have organized many activities on Clementi. Among others, three courses stand out at the University of Barcelona (Enjoy 2016, July 2016 and July 2017), as well as some trips to different places related to the composer and attendance at the International Conference of Lucca (Italy), “Muzio Clementi and the British Musical Scene”, where they could contact some of the most important specialists in the world about Clementi. In addition, he also emphasized the fact of having created a circle of people interested in the issue. For this reason, it was necessary to create an entity that could collect and cover all these actions derived from the concern and interest in this topic. Thus, he read the objectives expressed in the statutes and announced one of the next AMCB projects, such as organizing an exhibition about Clementi at the foyer of the Palau de la Música Catalana next March, with the collaboration of the Maria Canals International Music Competition of Barcelona.

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Galeria

Next, the secretary of the Association, Eva Álvarez, presented the recently designed website. She went through the different sections, including the introduction, the space devoted to Clementi’s biography, past and upcoming activities, and links to Clementi-related websites.

The presentations by the members of the board were followed by three talks by specialists.

Firstly, in “The contribution of Muzio Clementi to the history of music”, Marina Rodríguez Brià highlighted the value of Clementi’s legacy. By reference to numerous contemporary witness reports and present-day accounts, she reviewed Clementi’s activities and their historical significance. Thus, she spoke of Clementi the pianist, initiator of a technique that was properly devised “from” and “for” the piano that provides the backbone of both his pedagogical legacy and his musical work; of Clementi the editor, who published a catalogue of 6,000 contemporary and ancient works; of Clementi the discoverer of talents and promoter of musical societies that would establish with other societies and have continuity in the future; and Clementi the piano-maker, committed to the technical and sound improvement of the instrument.

After a break, it was the turn of Italian pianist and musicologist Luca Chiantore. In addition to corroborating or deepening some of the aspects discussed earlier, his talk, entitled “The Clementi case”, focused on the historiographic treatment of many lesser-known composers. In his opinion, the history of music is narrated from a German-centric vision, linked to a growing nationalism that began in the 1840s, which excludes or minimizes areas and composers from other European regions. This explains how Clementi and many others were forgotten or reduced to an anecdotal memory. Chiantore made a passionate defence of Clementi and also emphasized his importance as a symphonist who, at the time, was valued by the public at the same level as Beethoven, with whom he had a close relationship.

To round off the morning session, Jaume Ayats, director of the Barcelona Museum of Music, gave a talk on “Recovery of musical heritage”, with an illuminating analysis of the meaning of the term ‘heritage’. Is it just something material? What is the value of oral transmission and what difficulties does it face when it comes to musical notation? These issues, also mentioned in the preceding talk, underlined the importance of the role played by public and private institutions and, therefore, the interest of a newly-founded Association that has among its aims the study and recovery of the memory of an important composer.

In the afternoon, the Day continued at the Museum of Music of Barcelona with the presentation in the organ hall of the restoration by Jaume Barmona of a historical square piano Collard & Collard, late Clementi, owned by Marina Rodríguez and Joan Josep Gutiérrez.

After the welcome address by the director, Jaume Ayats, Joan Josep Gutiérrez explained the origin of the piece and gave a brief account of the history of the piano, specifically the square piano and the Collard brand, which continued the Clementi brand. The Collard brothers collaborated with Clementi for more than 30 years, during which they built a close friendship with the musician. After his death in 1832, the company kept the name Clementi for many years, both as a memento and as a commercial bait. The piano owned by Marina Rodríguez and Joan Josep Gutiérrez and now restored dates from 1843 and has the general design of the pianos that were made in Clementi’s lifetime.

Jaume Barmona described his restoration and underlined the importance of the transmission of the piano-maker’s craft.

To conclude, Marina Rodríguez gave a recital of pieces by Clementi which she introduced briefly and which allowed her to show the sonority of the piano as well as the musical quality of the Roman composer. She rounded off her excellent performance ended with some encores of pieces by Ferran Sor and Clementi himself.

Programme:  JORNADA-CLEMENTI

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UNIVERSITY of BARCELONA SUMMER COURSE: ELS JULIOLS 2017

Curs Juliols UB 2017‘Travel, music and the scene between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’,
about the life and work of Muzio Clementi

The summer courses “Els Juliols” of the University of Barcelona (UB), open to everybody, include in their 2017 offer the new course “Travel, Music and the Scene between the 18th and 19th Centuries. From enlightenment thinking to the emotiveness of the individual. The musician Muzio Clementi as a model of the change of mentality”. It will be a different course over last year, very complete and interesting, and in which different artistic and social areas will be played based on the presentation of the cosmopolitan and multifaceted Muzio Clementi (1752-1832). A musician who embodies the change of mentality and will serve as a reference for joining the different thematic areas of the course. A wide panorama of the scene of the moment will be studied, which includes great themes, such as opera, theater and instrumental music.

The course took place from July 10 to 14, 2017, lasting 20 hours. He developed seventeen subjects, with the contributions of: Marina Rodríguez Brià, Jorge de Persia, Susana Egea, Roger Alier, Joan Vives, Mireia Freixa, Xosé Aviñoa, Belén Cabanes, Jesús María Galech, Norbert Bilbeny, Joaquim Garrigosa, David Owen, Fix Nicolet, Montserrat Gascon, Bengt Hultman, Oriol Brugarolas and Laura Cuervo.

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HKSNA CONFERENCE 2017 – GREENVILLE (South Carolina)

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

Marina Rodriguez Bria a Greenville

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CONFERENCE “Clementi, musician and manufacturer”

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 .

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UNIVERSITY of BARCELONA SUMMER COURSE: ELS JULIOLS 2016

“England around a piano. Music, art and society.Pianos Clementi navegant
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:

1. Muzio Clementi, multifaceted and cosmopolitan musician. [Marina Rodríguez Brià]

2. 19th Century engineering and the crescendo of the piano. [Dr. Thomas Strange]

3. The British domestic interiors. An ideal place to host a piano. [Dra. Mireia Freixa]

4. Commented recital: At home in England. [Dr. Patrick Hawkins]

5. The musical map of the time of Clementi. [Dr. Xosé Aviñoa]

6. Passion, transcendence and sublime: English painting at the time of Clementi. [Dra. Cristina Rodríguez]

7. Clementi in the context of the English culture of Enlightenment. [Dra. Carme Font]

8. Revolutions, machines and music in Europe in 1800. [Oriol Brugarolas]

9. Musical life in London and the provinces during Clementi’s early years 1770-1800. [Dr. Matthew Spring]

10. The legacy of Clementi. Roundtable. [Jaume Ayats, Joan Josep Gutiérrez i Marina  Rodríguez Brià]

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COURSE “GAUDIR UB” 2016

Muzio Clementi

Universitat de Barcelona

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

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INTERNACIONAL CONFERENCE LUCCA 2015

Assistance to the International Conference of Lucca, “Muzio Clementi and the British Musical Scene” (November 2015).

Programa Lucca 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.

 

 

CONFERENCE LUCCA 2015 PROGRAM

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