On Wednesday 9th, Thursday 10th, Friday 11th and Saturday 12th December, at 11am, and on Monday 14th December at 10am, in the Orchestra Rehearsal Room at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, the educational music activities dedicated to schools begin again: five appointments in which Andrea Battistoni conducts the Teatro Lirico Orchestra. The concert is entitled “Il direttore d’orchestra” (The orchestra conductor) and is dedicated entirely to the brilliant Ludwig van Beethoven and aims to explain the role of the orchestra conductor, with the participation of the conductor Andrea Battistoni, and using the showing of film.

The programme, which includes Ludwig van Beethoven’s very famous Seventh Symphony in A major Op. 92, is aimed mainly at primary, middle and high schools and at the Art schools in Sardinia.

Ludwig van Beethoven (Bonn, 1770 – Vienna, 1827) composed the Seventh Symphony between 1811 and 1812 and amongst the countless and prestigious critical essays written, Richard Wagner’s stands out particularly in “The Artwork of the Future”. Regarding this masterpiece he wrote, “The symphony is the apotheosis of dance: it is dance in its most supreme essence, the most blissful fulfilment of body movement, concentrated almost ideally on sounds. In his works Beethoven brought the body into music, accomplishing a fusion between the body and the mind.”