QUARTETTO ADORNO

This concert is part of the complete performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartets, programmed by the Chigiana Academy in the Micat Vertice Concerts Season on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the great German composer and interpreted by the best young musical talents of today. Tonight’s program describes the evolution of Beethoven’s compositional style in the genre of the string quartet, a genre that the Bonn composer visits and studies several times in three different phases of his production. Opera18 includes six quartets composed between 1798 and 1800 with a contrasting character. This is followed by the works of maturity represented in this program by the quartet op.95 called “serious” and finally the transfiguration of the chamber genre given by the latest compositions for string quartet including the quartet in A minor op.132.

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The Adorno Quartet made itself known internationally by winning the Third Prize (First not awarded), the Audience Award and the Special Prize for the best performance of the contemporary piece by Silvia Colasanti in the 2017 edition of the Paolo Borciani International Award Competition. In the thirty-year history of the Competition, no Italian quartet had obtained such an important recognition. Founded in 2015 by Edoardo Zosi, Liù Pelliciari, Benedetta Bucci and Danilo Squitieri, they studied at the Fiesole Music School. Each member attended the advanced-level courses at the Chigiana Summer Academy. The name of the Quartet is a tribute to the philosopher Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno who, in an era of musical and social decline, identified chamber music as a key of salvation to perpetuate a true human relationship. The Adorno Quartet has held concerts for important Italian and foreign music halls and has collaborated with great artists such as: P. Badura-Skoda, B. Canino, A. Carbonare, S. Gramaglia, F. Meloni, P. Meyer, G. Sollima.