Music of Florence
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While Florence, itself, "needs no introduction" as the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, the music of Florence may, in fact, need such an introduction. The city was at the heart of much of our entire Western musical tradition. It was here that the Florentine Camerata convened in the mid-1500s and experimented with setting tales of Greek mythology to music and staging the result--in other words, the first operas, setting the wheels in motion not just for the further development of the operatic form, but for later developments of separate "classical" forms such as the symphony.
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[edit] Venues and activities
A wave of urban expansion in the 1860s led to the construction of a number of theaters in Florence. Currently, the sites, activities, and musical groups is impressive. They include:
- the Teatro Comunale, seat of the Stabile Orchestrale Fiorentina and the main site of concerts in the series of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, a music festival the name of which recalls the presumed folk music festivals of the Middle Ages that are speculated to have been one of the sources for early opera;
- the Teatro della Pergola;
- the Fiesole Music School, open to all ages--an attempt to encourage amateur and semi-professional musical activity;
- the Italian Youth Symphony;
- the Teatro Verdi, seat of the Tuscany Symphony Orchestra;
- the Teatro Goldoni;
- the Luigi Cherubini music conservatory, also home to an impressive Museum of Musical Instruments;
- the music manuscript collection in the Central National Library;
- a great number of churches that host musical performances.
Further, the town of Empoli in the province hosts the Busoni Center for Musical Sudies; and Fiesole has an ancient Roman theater that puts an annual summer music festival.
[edit] Reference
- Guide Cultura, i luoghi della music (2003) ed. Touring Club Italiano.
