Milano, Palazzo Marino in music: Sunday Alter Ego Ensemble in concert with “Federico II, the musician king”

Milano, Palazzo Marino in music: Sunday Alter Ego Ensemble in concert with “Federico II, the musician king”.

The concerts continue in the Sala Alessi at Palazzo Marino, as part of the event Marine Palace in Music. Appointment Sunday 5 March with “Frederick II, the musician King”, concert within the “La Musica dei Mecenati” exhibition, which will see Alter Ego Ensemble perform pieces by Janitsch, JS Bach, Graun, Čart, Benda, CPE Bach.

The concert accompanies the exhibition at the Gallerie d'Italia-Milano by Intesa Sanpaolo of the exhibition “From the Medici to the Rothschilds. Patrons, collectors, philanthropists", open until 26 March and curated by Fernando Mazzocca and Sebastian Schütze, with the general coordination of Gianfranco Brunelli, which investigates the relationship between big bankers, artistic patronage and collecting as strategic tools of representation and social affirmation , an eloquent example of the skilful transformation of economic capital into cultural and symbolic capital.

Over 120 works from prestigious international museums that allow you to delve deeper into the theme, through the analysis of figures who have incisively marked the history of collecting and taste such as Cosimo and Lorenzo de' Medici, the Giustiniani and Torlonia families, Enrico Mylius and, in the Central European area, Moritz von Fries, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener, Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild, and in America John Pierpont Morgan.

The appointment with “Frederick II, the musician King” you'll see Alter Ego Ensemble perform pieces by the artists called to the court of Frederick II of Prussia, an enlightened monarch and refined humanist, who surrounded himself with the best composers and singers offered by the European scene, personally participating in the musical life of the court, as a flautist, librettist and composer himself .