I Musici

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I Musici (older Italian for "The Musicians") are an Italian chamber orchestra . In some countries of Central Europe (especially in Germany and Austria) they also appear under the name I Musici di Roma .

history

The I Musici ensemble was founded in Rome in 1951 by students from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under the direction of their professor Remy Principe . It consists of 11 strings (6 violins , 2 violas , 2 cellos , double bass ) and a harpsichordist and plays without a conductor . The respective first violinist has a certain management function (1958–67 Félix Ayo , 1967–72 Roberto Michelucci , 1972–77 Salvatore Accardo , 1977–86 Pina Carmirelli , 1986–92 Federico Agostini , 1992–2003 Mariana Sîrbu , 2003–10 Antonio Salvatore, 2010–2019 Antonio Anselmi, since 2019 Marco Fiorini).

I Musici gave their debut concert on March 30, 1952 in Rome. The great success - among the admirers of the ensemble was u. a. Arturo Toscanini - soon made her popular, and concert tours followed through Europe, North, Central and South America, South Africa, Australia and Japan. The ensemble remained unchanged until 1977; since then all musicians have been gradually changed. The longest active founding member was the double bass player Lucio Buccarella.

repertoire

I Musici contributed significantly to the rediscovery of Italian baroque composers such as Albinoni , Bononcini , Corelli , Geminiani , Locatelli , Scarlatti , Torelli and Vivaldi . They became particularly well known for their interpretation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons , which they have recorded seven times on record or CD since 1955. Many of her recordings have received awards.

I Musici's repertoire also includes works from the 20th century, e. B. from Barber , Bartók , Britten , Hindemith , Martin or Respighi .

style

The music-making style of I Musici is characterized by tightness and brilliance. The historical performance practice they stood for a long time skeptical when they saw the danger of "academic dogmatism" or even the "fetishism" in it; this has brought them a noticeable loss of popularity and reputation since the 1990s (no new CDs were released from them between 1999 and 2006). In the meantime, they are increasingly incorporating knowledge of historical performance practice into their playing.

See also

literature

  • Alain Pâris : Classical music in the 20th century, instrumentalists, singers, conductors, orchestras, choirs . I Musici di Roma. 2nd Edition. dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 , p. 1016 .
  • Friedrich Herzfeld: Ullstein Lexicon of Music . I Musici. 6th edition. Ullstein GmbH, Frankfurt a. M. 1973, p. 252 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Alain Pâris. 1997. I Musici.
  2. ^ Marco Fiorini è la nuova Spalla de I Musici. In: Archi Magazine. December 17, 2019 (Italian).;
  3. ↑ Founding member Lucio Buccarella in an interview with the Canadian magazine La Scena Musicale in 2005 .
  4. ↑ “The musicians have incorporated the achievements of 'historically informed' performance practice without being dogmatic” ( Kölnische Rundschau , February 5, 2009). “Of course it doesn't sound like it did 60 years ago with them; one has learned a lot from the 'historians', and so there are more staccato accents than before ”( Cologne-Bonn music calendar  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , March 2009).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kb-musikkalender.de