Concerto "L'atto più commovente che si possa dare"

**Special Project MiC 2025 dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Thomas Mann's birth**

**With the concert "The most moving act one can give" scheduled for Friday, October 31, 2025, at 7:00 PM in the Auditorium of the Paolo Grassi Foundation, "Images of the Twentieth Century. The Musical Dimension of Thomas Mann" kicks off, the new Special Project 2025 of the Paolo Grassi Foundation funded by the Ministry of Culture.**

An author to whom Mann dedicated essential reflections is **Ludwig van Beethoven**. “The sonata had come to its end, and it was an irrevocable end. And when he said 'the sonata,' he did not mean only that one, the Sonata in C minor, but the sonata in general, as a genre and traditional artistic form: the sonata itself had come, or rather, had been led to its end, had fulfilled its destiny, reached a goal beyond which it could no longer proceed, and thus it annulled itself, dissolved, took leave; the farewell gesture of that motif was a goodbye as grand as the composition itself, the farewell to the sonata."
Thus, in Chapter VIII of Doctor Faustus, Mann recounts op. 111, Beethoven's last and astonishing Piano Sonata. The art of the late Beethoven, Mann continues, “had risen to the spheres of pure and simple personal expression of a self painfully isolated in the Absolute, also isolated from the material reality due to the loss of hearing, a solitary prince of a realm of phantoms.” And what would have been possible to compose afterwards?
The performance of Sonata op.111, entrusted to the **masterful interpretation of pianist Sergey Kuznetsov**, along with the Sonata "The Tempest," in the concert "The most moving act one can give," is therefore indispensable.

**SERGEY KUZNETSOV, piano**

Presentation by **TIZIANA PANGRAZI**
University of Naples “L’Orientale”

**Program**

**LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN**
Piano Sonata in D minor No. 17 "The Tempest"
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, op. 111

**TICKETS**
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