Psicologia Generale P. Cherubini

Attraverso queste letture della Psicologia delle visioni del mondo di Karl Jaspers e in generale attraverso lo studio della filosofia cerchiamo di scoprire in noi, nel nostro spirito ciò che i filosofi intendevano con le loro parole. Fino a quando non interiorizziamo le affermazioni del filosofo, egli intende.

Luigi Cherubini has earned a little place in posterity thanks to his Requiem Mass in D minor, written for his own funeral, and above all to his opera Medea, whose revival was one of the highlights of Maria Callas’ career. This strange, unclassifiable composer, not completely classical and only reluctantly romantic, late in life wrote six string quartets, of which Hausmusik London performs the first and last, on period instruments. The former (1814) pays an expected tribute to opera, the first violin frequently showing off in the foreground as a kind of instrumental prima donna.

In 1824, while waiting for the the ninth symphony it commissioned from Beethoven, the Philharmonic Society of London ordered a backup symphony in D major from the Italian-turned-French composer Luigi Cherubini. The Society had been founded ten years earlier to perform music by ‘the greatest masters’, notably Beethoven, Cherubini and Carl Maria von Weber.