Italian Echoes Across the Alps

On this musical journey, we will discover how 18th-century Italian music influenced one of the most important figures in the entire history of music, Johann Sebastian Bach.

The concert program, designed to demonstrate how music written for the harpsichord can be performed on the organ—consolidating a practice common at the time—will feature original compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, in which the Italian instrumental style resonates, alongside some of his transcriptions of concertos by Antonio Vivaldi and Benedetto Marcello. The program will be rounded out by a sonata by Baldassarre Galuppi, who, along with the aforementioned Vivaldi and Marcello, was one of the most prominent figures in the Venetian musical scene of the 18th century.