Palestrina - prince of music
| Movie | |
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| German title | Palestrina - prince of music |
| Original title | Palestrina - princeps musicae
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| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 52 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georg Brintrup |
| script | Georg Brintrup |
| production | Lichtspiel Entertainment GmbH, Arte , ZDF |
| music |
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
interpreted by: Ensemble Seicentonovecento , the Cappella Musicale di San Giacomo and the Coro di Voci bianche JJ Winckelmann under the direction of Flavio Colusso , direction of the children's choir Donatella Casa Singer: Antonio Giovannini: altoJean Nirouët: alto Maurizio Dalena: tenor Raimundo Pereira: tenor Luigi Petroni: tenor Aurio Tomicich: bass Andrea Damiani: lute Andrea Coen: organ / flute Elisabetta Di Filippo: tambourine Radu Marian : soprano |
| camera | Paolo Scarfó, Benny Hasenclever, Oliver Kochs, Jorge Alvis, |
| cut | Georg Brintrup , |
| occupation | |
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Domenico Galasso: Iginio | |
Palestrina - Prince of Music (orig: Palestrina princeps musicae ) is a music film by the German filmmaker Georg Brintrup from 2009 . The film tells the life of the most famous Italian composer of the Renaissance through fictional interviews with his contemporaries and with his music.
action
The film presents an artist who has achieved everything and who affords himself to reject the offers of the mighty of the world with excessive fee demands. He wants to stay where he enjoys protection and the greatest artistic independence, and that of all things in the service of the Roman Catholic Church . He succeeds in this because he knows how to tame the demon that plagued him: the demon of artistic freedom. To keep him at bay, he has forged a powerful weapon, his music , and the Church believes this is done for them. People flock to hear his music, which the Counter-Reformation may have more access to than anything else. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (approx. 1526–94) only seems to perform what is required of him in Rome : like this to compose so that the word of the Church can be understood. However, he experimented and understood: "The medium is the message". It is the sound that inspires people, and not the word that music alone may serve. A realization that will have a lasting impact on the music of the West like no other, and which will enable Palestrina to compose as it urges him to.
At the height of his art, the plague wiped out Palestrina's family. He decides to enter the spiritual state. When he received the tonsure , he ran away and ended up in the arms of a rich widow. Suddenly he has the money to publish his works, which previously belonged to the church, and thus preserve them for posterity. It is the music that we know from him today.
The incident caused a stir, gossip and gossip. What just got into the good man? What we can think of today was less understandable to contemporaries. The question becomes the starting point for a film that rolls up the events that took place at the end of the 16th century in the ever-increasing field of tension between the spiritual and secular spheres in Europe - a field of tension in which we find ourselves again.
background
The film works dramaturgically on two intertwined temporal levels, renaissance and present. The protagonists of the present are a choir and its director, Flavio Colusso, who open up - and thus the audience - the work of Palestrina as it was performed at the time: in small cast, with male and boy instead of female voices. The choir is specially composed for the film from members of well-known Roman madrigal choirs, choirs that Palestrina directed 450 years ago. The level of the Renaissance is deliberately determined by gossip - of course, strictly based on the facts. As if someone had a camera with them at the time, clergy, musicians, princes, singers and lawyers are interviewed in a Renaissance atmosphere in order to track down Palestrina's sudden change of heart - a subtly ironic game with the documentary film genre . The puzzle is put together piece by piece , and the two levels complement each other to form an overall picture of the musician in his time, uncover his topicality and make the immortality of his music perceptible. The director Georg Brintrup moves in the border area between staging , documentation and essay . Dramaturgically, the pendulum swings in the direction of documentation. The film premiered on November 11, 2009 at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome and was first broadcast on Arte on March 15, 2010 .
Film music
The soundtrack contains the following 15 musical compositions by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina:
| No. | title |
|---|---|
| 1. | Now |
| 2. | Ecce sacerdos - Kyrie and Christe |
| 3. | S'il dissi mai |
| 4th | Io son ferito |
| 5. | Ecce sacerdos - Agnus |
| 6th | Aleph I and II |
| 7th | Heth |
| 8th. | Missa Brevis - Gloria and qui tollis |
| 9. | Missa Utremifasola - Agnus |
| 10. | Missa Papae Marcelli - Kyrie and Credo |
| 11. | La ver aurora |
| 12. | O refrigerio acceso |
| 13. | Ioth |
| 14th | Super flumina Babylonis |
| 15th | Sicut cervus I and II |
The following pieces of music also appear in the film:
- Costanzo Festa - Ogni loco m'atrista
- Jacques Arcadelt - Dormendo un giorno
distribution
After the world premiere in 2009 in the Roman Auditorium Parco della Musica on November 15, 2009 and the first broadcast on Arte, the film was shown at international festivals such as the Prix International du Documentaire e du Reportage Mediterraneen, the International Television Festival ECO, the AsoloArtFilmfestival, the Golden Prague International Television Festival, the L'Aquila international film festival, the Festival international du film sur l'art, in Montreal a. a. It was then broadcast on Italian ( RAI ) and Swedish ( SVT ).
Web links
- Palestrina - Prince of Music in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Presentation of the film
Individual evidence
- ^ Parco della Musica: Palestrina - princeps music . ( 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.
