The essay reconstructs the profile of Arturo Toscanini from the point of view of the close relationship established, in his experience as an artist, between music and the struggle for freedom, equality and human rights. The aim of the contribution is, on the one hand, to analyse the performative practices through which his constant and consistent active commitment to the values of democratic coexistence was manifested, analysing the perspective of meaning that guided Arturo Toscanini’s decisions regarding what was performed at his concerts and the venues for staging them. On the other hand, by closely studying Toscanini’s fragmentary thoughts against anti-Semitism, dictatorships, the exercise of power over others and war, contained in his dense correspondence, the survey aims to reconstruct the fundamental tenets of Toscanini’s conception of democracy and the civil commitment of the artist in the difficult twenties and thirties of the twentieth century, up until after the Second World War.

Il saggio ricostruisce il profilo di Arturo Toscanini dal punto di vista dello stretto rapporto instauratosi, nella sua esperienza di artista, tra musica e lotta per le libertà, l’eguaglianza e i diritti dell’uomo. Il contributo intende da un lato analizzare le pratiche performative attraverso cui si manifestò il suo costante e coerente impegno attivo a favore dei valori della convivenza democratica, analizzando le prospettive di senso che orientarono le scelte di Arturo Toscanini sul palinsesto musicale e sui luoghi dove portarlo in scena. Da un altro versante, studiando in particolare i pensieri frammentari di Toscanini contro l’antisemitismo, le dittature, l’esercizio di potere sugli altri e la guerra, contenuti nel suo denso carteggio, l’indagine intende ricostruire nelle sue linee fondamentali la concezione toscaniniana di democrazia e di impegno civile dell’artista, nei difficili anni Venti e Trenta del Novecento, fino agli esiti successivi alla seconda guerra mondiale.

Chiodi, G. (2020). Prove di democrazia. Musica, libertà e diritti dell’uomo nella visione di Arturo Toscanini. LAWART, 1, 81-138 [10.17473/LAWART-2020-1-5].

Prove di democrazia. Musica, libertà e diritti dell’uomo nella visione di Arturo Toscanini

Chiodi, G
2020

Abstract

The essay reconstructs the profile of Arturo Toscanini from the point of view of the close relationship established, in his experience as an artist, between music and the struggle for freedom, equality and human rights. The aim of the contribution is, on the one hand, to analyse the performative practices through which his constant and consistent active commitment to the values of democratic coexistence was manifested, analysing the perspective of meaning that guided Arturo Toscanini’s decisions regarding what was performed at his concerts and the venues for staging them. On the other hand, by closely studying Toscanini’s fragmentary thoughts against anti-Semitism, dictatorships, the exercise of power over others and war, contained in his dense correspondence, the survey aims to reconstruct the fundamental tenets of Toscanini’s conception of democracy and the civil commitment of the artist in the difficult twenties and thirties of the twentieth century, up until after the Second World War.
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Music; Liberty; Human rights; Democracy
Italian
2020
1
81
138
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Chiodi, G. (2020). Prove di democrazia. Musica, libertà e diritti dell’uomo nella visione di Arturo Toscanini. LAWART, 1, 81-138 [10.17473/LAWART-2020-1-5].
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