Museums in Music

A program even richer and more widespread for the third edition of the chamber music review of the Fondazione Arena, Museums in Music. Building on the two previous sold-out editions, it returns in 2026 with 10 new Sunday appointments where music and art meet.

The protagonist of these unmissable appointments, all at 11:00, is chamber music, from the 16th to the 20th century, performed by the professors of the Fondazione Arena Orchestra, interpreting works from the Renaissance to Romanticism, from Classicism to the present day. 

There are four appointments at Palazzo Maffei, one in the Sala Maffeiana of the Teatro Filarmonico and one at the Museo degli affreschi G. B. Cavalcaselle near the tomb of Juliet.

Four brand new locations: the Biblioteca Capitolare, the Circolo Unificato dell’Esercito, the Accademia di Agricoltura Scienze e Lettere and the Museo Nicolis.

Visits to some museum collections are paired with the concerts.

The musical program is rich and varied.

Palazzo Maffei

Sunday, January 25
Quartet No. 4 in C Major by Mozart, Abendlied by Schumann (in the transcription by Busoni) and the Quintet by Reger.

Sunday, April 19
Transcribed for wind quartet, symphonies from William Tell, Cinderella, Semiramide, The Thieving Magpie and an unpublished fantasy on Rossini themes by Vincenzo Gambaro himself, who signs the transcriptions.

Sunday, April 26
Baroque sonatas by J. S. Bach and the Concert Royaux by Couperin, along with the sonata written for the same ensemble in 1952 by Elliott Carter.

Sunday, May 10
The protagonist will be Vienna, the musical capital between Classicism and Romanticism, featuring the first string trios by Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert.

Sala Maffeiana

Sunday, March 1
Brahms with the Liebeslieder waltzes, musical gems performed by the Coro di Fondazione Arena conducted by Roberto Gabbiani, who will also be at the piano.

Biblioteca Capitolare

Sunday, May 3
In the sign of Brahms, Sextets for strings

Circolo Unificato dell’Esercito

Sunday, May 17
Rare Octet by Beethoven and the Serenade K388 by Mozart for wind octet, with the lively opening of a transcription of the symphony from The Magic Flute.

Accademia di Agricoltura Scienze e Lettere 

Sunday, October 18
Serenade Op. 44 by Dvořák, a masterpiece of the genre, alongside two rarities such as the Little Symphony for Winds by Gounod and the Serenade "in vain" by Nielsen.

Museo Nicolis

Sunday, November 9
Fundamental string quartets of the 19th century, including the Fourth by Beethoven and the famous Death and the Maiden by Schubert.

Museo degli Affreschi G.B. Cavalcaselle

Sunday, November 29
Duo for violin and viola by Mozart and the rare "grand" Septet by Kreutzer.