Authentic Beethoven?
Seminario di Gabriele Riccobono e Rinaldo Nani – Venezia 22 / 23 novembre 2017
Seminar by Gabriele Riccobono and Rinaldo Nani – Venice, November 22-23, 2017
The recent seminar held by Gabriele Riccobono in Venice gave us the opportunity to meet the scholar of Beethoven performance practice.
WHAT IS “BEETHOVEN AUTHENTIC”? Why does contemporary Beethoven interpretation remain (often unintentionally) distant from Beethoven’s original indications? How can musicians who feel the need for greater authenticity have more control over their interpretative choices? The thesis of Gabriele Riccobono (founder and director of Beethoven Autentico) and Dr. Rinaldo Nani (algorithmic mathematician) is that a step forward can be made by integrating and correcting ordinary musicological processes with the contribution of Bayesian statistics. This perspective, currently being tested by the two scholars, will be the subject of this seminar on Beethovenian philology and performance practice, led by Professors Monica Bertagnin and Igor Cognolato. Introductory readings available at: beethovenautentico.com (text taken from the seminar brochure)
Gabriele Riccobono, founder and director of Beethoven Autentico, specializes in the authenticity of Beethoven’s sources and performance practices. Rinaldo Nani designs algorithms and architectures for new technologies and conducts research on complex systems and machine learning. They collaborate on the development of probabilistic models for evaluating competing hypotheses.
“Gabriele Riccobono’s Authentic Beethoven, with accessible yet powerful words, provides the foundation for an understanding of Beethoven’s music that brings him closer to his original intentions.” Professor Giuseppe Mariotti, Dean of the Faculty of Music, Tokushima Bunri University (Japan)
Authentic Beethoven in Venice
In the photos, Gabriele Riccobono with his mathematician colleague, Rinaldo Nani. In the photo on stage, on the sides: Igor Cognolato, piano professor at the Conservatory, and, on the right, Paolo De Rossi, violin professor. Second from the right is Monica Bertagnin, chamber music professor, some images of the splendid Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, and finally, in the last photo, with pianist Mizuho Furukubo (performing a Waldstein performance worthy of a frame).
