Concert in memory of ELLA VON SCHULZ ADAÏEWSKY (1846–1926)

Description

mezzo-soprano Victoire Bunel
piano Andrea Rucli
with a musicological introduction by Umberto Berti

Ella von Schultz Adaïewsky (1846–1926) was one of the most significant female composers and pianists of the nineteenth century. Trained in St Petersburg, she soon became a friend and colleague of Brahms, Berlioz, Liszt and Clara Wieck. In 1882 she took up residence in Venice and, during the summer months, would often stay in the Upper Friuli region, in Tarcento, where she began to study the Friulian and Slovenian musical traditions of the Resia Valley. An ethnomusicologist ahead of her time, she recorded her studies on the musical culture of these lands in a recently rediscovered manuscript, which she subsequently incorporated into her compositions. It is a great rarity to be able to hear her songs for voice and piano – alongside other works by composers such as Claude Debussy, Alma Mahler and the Friulian Piero Pezzè – masterfully performed by the French mezzo-soprano Victoire Bunel and the pianist from Udine, Andrea Rucli, who championed the rediscovery of Adaïewsky.

Tickets presale: Ticket Point, Corso Italia, 9 (Galleria Rossoni) – Trieste 

Organized by:

Società Germanica di Beneficienza