Under the First Empire, music, which played an essential role not only in social life but also within the armies, reveals the extraordinary versatility and the visionary side of the Emperor.
Founded on April 20, 1869, the Municipal Music of Ajaccio is the dean of Corsican music. It perpetuates the repertoire Empire des marches napoléoniennes. The Aria harmony orchestra is an emanation of it.

• 16H30: Marches and Imperial Parade Music
  "March of the First Consul of Paisiello"
  "March of Hairy Hats"
  "Walk of Bruce’s Soldiers"
  "Austerlitz" "The song of departure" "Consular march in Marengo"
  "The dream is passing".
  Performed by the orchestra ARIA.
  -17H15: FINAL: the 1848 Ajaccian
  Paroles Jean-François Costa de Bastelica, Musique François -Xavier Giacobini, arrangement orchestre ARIA.
  This version of the Ajaccian was composed for the ceremony of April 15, 1848, on the occasion of the first return to Corsica of Prince Napoleon, son of Jerome Bonaparte, former king of Westphalia after the repeal of the law of exile against the Bonaparte
  Performed by the orchestra ARIA and Matthieu-Joseph Nobili, tenor.