A series of musical events is underway at the Museo di Palazzo Davanzati, thanks to a collaboration between the Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze and musei del Bargello and the Department of Early Music at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Florence. From April 17th to May 29th, 2026, three concerts will enliven the museum, transforming it into an evocative stage dedicated to early music. The initiative renews the dialogue between visual arts and music, offering audiences an immersive experience where historical and artistic heritage intertwines with live performances. The protagonists will be Conservatory students, who will perform works from the European Baroque repertoire, often little-known but of great artistic value.
The first event, scheduled for Friday, April 17th at 5:30 pm, will be entirely dedicated to Baroque vocalism between Italy and Germany, with a program centered on Alessandro Scarlatti and Georg Friedrich Handel. The performance will open with Concerto IV from Scarlatti’s Sacred Concertos, Op. II, and the aria Va tacito e nascosto from Handel’s Giulio Cesare. The second part will explore chamber music repertoire with Scarlatti’s cantata Quelle pace gradita for soprano and instruments, followed by two Handel arias Sweet Rose and Lily from Theodora and Tirannia mia bella from Lotario.
The second concert, scheduled for Friday, May 8th at 5:30 pm, will be dedicated to the great instrumental repertoire of the German Baroque, with a focus on Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann. The program will focus on some of Bach’s most famous pieces, including the Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041, the Harpsichord Concerto in A major, BWV 1055, and the Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043, alongside Telemann’s Harrach Concerto in G minor for recorder, strings, and continuo.
The series will conclude on Friday, May 29th at 5:30 pm with Johann David Heinichen’s Sonata a 4 in G, followed by works by Dietrich Buxtehude and Georg Philipp Telemann, including the motet Quemadmodum desiderat cervus and Psalm 117, which will feature a larger vocal and instrumental ensemble. The second part will be dedicated to operatic repertoire, with arias by Reinhard Keiser and Telemann, including Kleine Vöglein, eure Scherze and Geht, ihr heißen Seufzer, hin all the way up to Ihr fliegenden Sänger from Orpheus.
Admission to the concerts is included in the museum entrance ticket.
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