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    The One and the Only

    Sunday 5 July 2026
    Montaione (Fi), Cappella "La fuga in Egitto"
    Sunday 5 July 2026 h. 6:00 p.m.
    Hortensia Quartet strings quartet
    Giuseppe Verdi / Strings Quartet, E minor
    Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy / Strings Quartet No. 6, Op. 80
    Duration 60 minutes about / no pause
    violins Giacomo Bianchi, Clara Franziska Schötensack
    viola Stefano Zanobini
    cello Augusto Gasbarri

    CLASSICA 2026
    L'unico e l'ultimo (The One and Only)
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    Free admission subject to availability
    For info: Municipality of Montaione - Tourist Information Office tel. +39 0571 699255 - turismo@comune.montaione.fi.it
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    The Hortensia Quartet’s concert is built around two of the most significant works in the nineteenth-century chamber music repertoire. The programme title plays on a little curiosity: ‘the only one’ refers to Verdi’s quartet, as the composer wrote just one; ‘the last’ refers to Mendelssohn’s Quartet Op. 80, the last great chamber music work he composed shortly before his death.

    Felix Mendelssohn’s Quartet Op. 80, written after the death of his sister Fanny, is a score permeated by intense emotional tension, in which the composer’s characteristic lyricism is imbued with dramatic and restless accents. Alongside Mendelssohn, Giuseppe Verdi’s Quartet in E minor surprises with its energy and contrapuntal refinement: a unique chamber music interlude in the output of the great Italian opera composer, revealing a different facet of his compositional style. A tribute on the 125th anniversary of his death.


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