Il traguardo finale è la semplicità
Bietti

Giovanni Bietti, musician and lecturer

The Music of Fryderyk Chopin

Music by Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)

30' | Admission included with museum ticket

Explaining Chopin without resorting to clichés is an art in itself. Giovanni Bietti — pianist, musicologist, and a familiar face to the general public thanks to his lecture-concerts broadcast on Rai Radio 3 — succeeds with rare ease, combining the precision of a scholar with the warmth of someone who deeply loves the subject he speaks about.

Although Frédéric Chopin never left Paris after 1838, Poland remained forever in his heart and never abandoned him: every Mazurka, every Polonaise, every Nocturne bears the mark of nostalgia for a homeland he felt he had lost. Frail with tuberculosis, brilliant and reserved, loved and tormented by George Sand, Chopin wrote almost exclusively for the piano, imprinting upon the instrument an almost obsessive concentration capable of expressing everything: dance and mourning, irony and prayer, virtuosity and silence.

In the Hall of Mirrors of the Ducal Palace, Bietti will guide the audience through Chopin’s refined musical world, transforming the museum into an elegant salon for one evening.

Text by Federica Mastantuono