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JSBach.it is the Italian association aiming at creating, favouring, promoting and disseminating initiatives, resources and projects focusing on Johann Sebastian Bach.
The project was created by Chiara Bertoglio and Maria Borghesi, as an outgrowth of their recent research on the state of Italian initiatives and studies about Bach. Since several decades, Bach has become one of the Italian audiences’ favourite composers and the protagonist of numerous events. However, for a long time Italy lacked a common space to which such projects could converge, and a catalyst for coordinating and for making this diversity heard.
JSBach.it was created with two main goals. Firstly, to create an interdisciplinary community: for finding and sharing information, for contributing studies about the reception of Bach in Italy, the presence of realities focusing on him and on his music, and useful resources for research and popularization. Secondly, JSBach.it aims at fostering the creation and development of new projects about the composer from Leipzig.
The activities of JSBach.it encompass various fields, and are tailored on the needs of musicologists, musicians, and the larger community of all Bach-lovers.
As concerns professionals, JSBach.it develops new research projects, maintains large databases on Italian publications and recordings about Bach and favours and implements connections with the most important Bachian institutions worldwide. Moreover, JSBach.it advertises and disseminates information about new Italian contributions in the Bachian field.
However, we also believe that music and culture are for all. Thus JSBach.it promotes events for the larger public, such as explorations of historical sources and places connected with Bach, series of readings and listening guides for familiarising with Bach’s music, and short videos presenting current research. Moreover, it broadcasts Un caffè con JSBach.it (“A coffee with JSBach.it”), a series of video and audio podcasts offering short virtual encounters with the protagonists of the Italian and international Bach-world; in a simple, direct and informal fashion, they chat with us about how and why they decided to dedicate their life to the music of Bach.
JSBach.it is a collective and dynamic space, living thanks to the cooperation of musicologists, musicians, students, cultural promoters and amateurs who are invited to participate in this project by telling us about initiatives, current projects, resources and advice.
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Further information:
Read the manifesto of jsbach.it presented in Dresden at the conference "J. S. Bach at the Dawn of 2020" in the occasion of the launch of the website: find it here
È nata nel settembre 2019 da un’idea di Chiara Bertoglio e Maria Borghesi,
e dalle loro ricerche sullo stato delle attività e degli studi italiani dedicati a Johann Sebastian Bach. Il compositore tedesco da diversi decenni è considerato uno dei compositori più amati dal pubblico italiano, e gli sono state dedicate numerose iniziative. Tuttavia, è mancato a lungo uno spazio comune in cui
far convergere questi progetti, una forza catalizzatrice capace di coordinare
e dar voce a questa pluralità di energie.
OBIETTIVI
CONVEGNO
Nel novembre 2020 JSBach.it è stata l’organizzatrice principale, insieme
al Conservatorio di Torino e all'Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte del
più grande convegno internazionale dedicato al tema Bach e l'Italia, svoltosi
in forma digitale con la partecipazione di musicologi, musicisti, didatti, compositori, registi. Il convegno resta tuttora disponibile in forma di archivio multimediale; ne è derivato ad un volume di riflessione critica, che sarà disponibile da dicembre 2021.
Oggi JSBach.it – Società Bachiana Italiana si rivolge sia a musicologi e musicisti, sia al vasto pubblico di appassionati bachiani. Le sue attività sono organizzate su tre aree: ricerca, performance, e didattica.
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