DAL 1700. TWO CENTURIES OF ITALIAN BAROQUE

If Baroque has a most relevant place in the History of Universal Art, its contributions to Italian music of the 17^th and 18^th centuries fill and outshine a great part of the History of Music.

Italy, ever generous in terms of trends and art movements, was the ideal breeding ground for the art of musical trompe l’oeil. After a lucid, moderate, and splendid Renaissance, thanks to the kind hand of Monteverdi, who bridges a new destination, Italian music compositions starts to have its own musical identity that was to place the country ahead of European fashions and music schools for two centuries.

Italian Baroque gives the country, just like a tree bent under the weight of its fruits, an extraordinary musical heritage. Figures like Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) or Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) do not only increase the musical prestige of Italy, but also make decisive contributions to the development of instrumental techniques, especially the violin.

Dal 1700 proposes a tour around this most interesting and vast musical scenery, emphasizing composers who are halfway between the 17^th and the 18^th centuries in order to analyse closely the wealth that the change of century brought about in Italian Baroque.