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Rinaldo Alessandrini & OCM: Palau de Música Catalana

About the Event

Enjoy a superb performance with an Italian virtuoso on Baroque keyboards at one of Barcelona's most beautiful landmarks, the Palau de la Música Catalana.

MUSIC FOR CELEBRATION

Zur Namensfeier was meant to celebrate the Saint of Emperor Francis I (October 4 is Saint Francis of Assisi) of 1814 but Beethoven did not finish it on time and it was released in the December. Nevertheless the work maintained the festive rhythm, the lyrical melodies and the sumptuous character of what had to be commemorated.

Händel had finished his work on time (April 1749), despite having accepted the commission with pessimism. He even had the good fortune to listen to the five complete movements in the general rehearsal on the day that the wooden building was inaugurated, with music and fireworks. It was commissioned by George II of Great Britain to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Aix la‐Chapelle, but disastrously everything was destroyed in a fire. It isn't something that will happen this time because Rinaldo Alessandrini's three decades of experience has fire it's in the form of applause. Some did not understand Beethoven the day he premiered his First Symphony (1800), as critics considered it was a bad mix of Mozart and Haydn symphonies with a modernity that was not very recognisable in the very fast tempos and harmonious novelties. Critics are not always right.

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