Concert around Pergolèse

Name: Concert around Pergolèse
Start: 2022-09-17T16:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée du Château de Mayenne

In a nod to the exhibition Cultural Twins, excerpts from the Stabat Mater composed by Pergolèse proposed by the singing class of the Conservatory of Mayenne Community.

Saturday 17 September 2022, 16:30Passed

Conditions

Free entry

Giovanni Batistta Pergolesi (Pergolesis) is an Italian composer born in Jesi in 1710. The richness and diversity of his vocal music continues to radiate in Europe and around the world. The singing class of the Conservatoire de Mayenne Communauté offers excerpts from the vibrant Stabat Mater, a masterpiece of 18th-century European sacred music composed in 1736, as well as other sacred works and opera excerpts.

About the location

Musée du Château de Mayenne

Place Juhel, 53100

Mayenne
Pays de la Loire

Located between the border between Normandy and Brittany, Mayenne takes during the disintegration of the Carolingian empire a major importance which is concretized by the early construction (around 900) of a stone castle; it develops in the thirteenth century in a "lower courtyard" flanked by 12 towers and a fortified "high court" comprising a circular keep and a main building. Built from the 15th century according to the new needs of the artillery, the whole is backfilled in terrace and the towers partially arased in the 17th century. An interesting specimen of 13th-century military and residential architecture, Mayenne appears above all as a major archaeological site, with the recent discovery of the Carolingian building partially elevated in the high courtyard; a site museum (crypt) presents these different aspects. M.O. Mandy (2002). It is only in 1993 that renovation works bring out arcades of Carolingian bricks and finally lift the veil on the mystery of the origins of the Castle