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HISTORY OF A MEETING Life
often surprises us with unexpected events that create a mystery on
the word “fate or destiny”. For those who believe in God they see
a plan God has for us, while others can say this it is just a combination
of facts and a matter of coincidence. This sort of events is changing
people’s life anyway. Music always had a fundamental role in my life and I am sure my existence would have been empty and not complete without it. As a self taught musician and then composer I always felt the fascination of this art which made me learn to play a few musical instruments and improve my singing technique. In my childhood I was used to follow all services in the church near my home where in the 50s Sacred Music was performed with its power and solemnity. In a large room, close to the church, there was an old harmonium where I started to play when I was 9 years old, discovering the harmony and the fascination of music. An old music manual I found in a drawer became my first reference book to learn how to play organ and I found in it some pieces written by a certain Domenico Zipoli, that became my favourite author to play. As a teen-ager in the 60s, the guitar and the Beatles songs soon replaced the old harmonium and Zipoli’s music and later my music and artistic professional activity took different roads and followed different artistic experiences. When I was 40, I decided to improve my tenor voice studying professional opera singing under the guidance of qualified teachers discovering again the pleasure of performing sacred music, especially the ancient one. I never thought I would have met the beloved author of my childhood again.  In
1990 I had as a guest in my home the son of a dear friend of mine
from Asunción (Paraguay) whose name is Carlos Federico Galeano, who
spent a few months with us and knew my singing activity and research
about new pieces of sacred music to perform. To thank me for the hospitality
I offered he brought one day from Paraguay copies of transcriptions
of music pieces of sacred music he got through a friend of his, conductor
of a local Choir. This is how I met Domenico Zipoli again and knew
he became Jesuit Missionary composing music for his beloved Indios
in the forests in South America. I discovered also the existence of
another name, the one of the musicologist, composer and conductor
of the local symphonic orchestra Maestro Luis Szarán. Since then my
artistic life changed completely and after I met Luis Szarán in Asunción
in the Summer of 1995, I founded together with the brothers Roberto
and Michele Antonello an Ensemble where I sang as soloist tenor till
the end of 2006. We proudly called our Group “Domenico Zipoli Ensemble”.An incredible friendship was born with Luis Szarán leading us to a close and enthusiastic professional co-operation to study, publish, perform and spread Zipoli’s music and in general the Music of the Jesuitic Reductions of South America all over the world. Maybe the “fate” decided that, but probably my good friend Luis is right to say that our beloved composer guided us from Heaven in a way our paths would have met. Giorgio Fornasier “Domenico Zipoli Ensemble” - - - Follows: Short historical notice, The Music in the Reductions . . ., Examples of music manuscripts |
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