Beethoven
Bietti, Quartetto Indaco

Giovanni Bietti, lecturer and musicologist

Quartetto Indaco

Eleonora Matsuno, violin

Ida Di Vita, violin

Jamiang Santi, viola

Cosimo Carovani, cello

L. van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Great Fugue for String Quartet in B-flat major op. 133

30’ | Ticket 10 €

Giovanni Bietti, as a distinguished narrator, and the Quartetto Indaco guide the audience through one of the boldest monuments in the history of music: Beethoven’s Great Fugue. Originally conceived as the final movement of another quartet, the work was immediately perceived as extreme and visionary, almost incomprehensible for its time. Even today, listening to it is a overwhelming experience: a music that struggles, bursts forth, and defies the conventions of musical language, pushing the instruments beyond all expressive limits. Bietti leads the audience through the architecture of this musical labyrinth, while the Quartetto Indaco confronts its complexity with energy and rigor.

Not a reassuring melody, but an intellectual storm taking shape in the spaces of the restaurant Il Cigno, a historic venue of Mantuan tradition. Here narration, music, and setting merge into a single experience, leading into Beethoven’s creative laboratory, a composer who never stopped daring.

Text by Antonio Pio Caliendo