"On the evening of Christmas day in 1882, within the
Apollonian halls of the “La Fenice” Theater, Richard Wagner led an
orchestra formed by the teachers and students of the “Benedetto
Marcello” Conservatory. On that night, he proposed some music which,
until that time, had been never revealed. It was his last concert, but
also a wish that finally came true: re-listening to the score, fifty
years from its first performance, on the birthday of Cosima, his loving
wife to which the event was dedicated and kept as a secret. Wagner wrote the symphony at the age of
19 and lost track of the manuscript after having sent it to Felix
Mendelssohn. Only in 1877 were certain instrumental parts found in an
attic in Dresda within a trunk; Anton Seidl, the young assistant of
Wagner at the time, re-composed the score in 1878 under the instructions
of Wagner. This episode, which is not very well known, is the main topic of the documentary of Gianni Di Capua, produced by Kublai Film"
"....A cross-media work (it is, in fact, a documentary app for Android,
iPhone and iPad and will soon become a theatrical work) which
rediscovers new moments of the last Venetian stay of Richard Wagner and
the relationship between the great German composer and the city which he
most loved: Venice." Read more HERE.
And watch the documentary in full HERE. It's in Italian, biut easy enough to follow
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