Fortissimo nel mio cuore
Scolastra, Cappelletto

Marco Scolastra, piano

Sandro Cappelletto, narrator

Schubert: the last years

Text and dramaturgy by S. Cappelletto

Music by Franz Schubert (1797–1828)

30’ | Ticket €8

There is a year in the life of Franz Schubert that seems to contain everything: greatness and premonition, light and shadow. The year 1828 was a time of intense creative urgency: the last three piano sonatas were composed, the song cycle Schwanengesang (Swan Song), and the monumental String Quintet. Works permeated by an extreme awareness, as if Schubert sensed that his time was nearing its end.

On 26 March 1828, he gave his first and only public concert, entirely devoted to his own compositions—a great success, though one that came too late. A few months later, on 19 November, Schubert died of typhoid fever at just thirty-one years of age.

Fortissimo nel mio cuore is a musical narrative born from that final, vertiginous year, bringing together some of the composer’s most intense and profound piano pages. For this event, the extraordinary pianist Marco Scolastra engages in dialogue with the spoken narration of musicologist Sandro Cappelletto.

An experience in which word and sound intertwine to portray a man capable of transforming the little time he had left into pure beauty.

Text by Giada De Sio