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Author of The Philosophy of Music (Paris, 1836) Giuseppe Mazzini is the only Italian philosopher and politician to have devoted his specific to attention to a text explicitly devoted to the relationship between music and society.
In 1834 Mazzini founded to Bern the association of the Young Europe, gathering the projects of democracy and independence expressed from Italian, Polish and German exiles.
For Mazzini, music, particularly melodrama, is closely connected with the dream of a united, free Europe sharing the same ideals of progress and emancipation.
A prominent guitarist, a great expert in opera opera, Mazzini, in his London exile matured a reflection on music that saw in Meyerbeer's production the ability to provide his political thought with a Synthesis of ideas, motives and reflections that could convince Europeans to unite in a great shared and conscious harmony. It was a project that would find its full realization in 1862 in theAnthem of Nations that Giuseppe Verdi presented for the London International Expo.
Stefano Ragni has the great merit of having made Mazzinians and Italians rediscover Giuseppe Mazzini's passion for and interest in music, in times not out of suspicion, by grasping its revolutionary and spiritual function within the framework of the evolution of his political and social thought.
to Beginning with his edition of _Philosophy of Music _for the editions of Domus Mazziniana in Pisa (1996), Ragni has devoted most of his energies to Mazzini and Risorgimento musicological studies, presenting the results in the innovative formula of lecture-concerts, which have always attracted wide public and critical acclaim.
The Associazione Mazziniana Italiana (AMI) has had the pleasure and honor of being able to count on Stefano Ragni's expertise and availability on many occasions and hopes to do so again in the future, knowing full well that each appointment proves to be original and brilliant, adding a piece to the knowledge of Giuseppe Mazzini's multifaceted personality.
AMI is therefore proud to count the Perugian artist and scholar among the contemporary standard bearers of Mazzinianism, who was awarded the silver medal coined for the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification with the effigy of Goffredo Mameli.
Mario of Naples
AMI National President
speaker and pianist **Stefano Ragni **(Conservatory and University for Foreigners of Perugia)
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_A hymn of a few bars created in times near to us victory. _(G. Mazzini, Philosophy of Music)
D. Auber
_La muette de Portici _(1828, Paris)
Amour sacrée de la Patrie
Rends-nous l'audace et la fierté
_Meyerbeer is the greatest artist of a transitional period, in which the High Priest cannot yet appear. _(G. Mazzini, letter to Emilie Ashurst Venturi, London May 21, 1867)
**G. Meyerbeer **
Les Huguenots (Paris, 1836)
The third Rome
R.Wagner
_Rienzi _(Dresden, 1842)
Europe before Sarajevo
G. Verdi
Anthem of Nations (London, 1862)
we thank the company Angelo Fabbrini Pianoforti - Pescara for valuable cooperation
Stefano Ragni, a philosophy graduate with degrees in composition, choral music and piano, teaches at the Conservatory and the University for Foreigners in Perugia.
Author of twenty musical monographs sees his _Course on the History of Italian Music for Foreign Students _broadcast worldwide.
His critical edition of Giuseppe Mazzini's _Philosophy of Music _(Domus mazziniana, Pisa, 1996) and his volume Giuseppe Mazzini and the Music of Giovine Italia form the basis of his presence on the National Committee for the Bicentennial Celebrations of Mazzini's Birth (2005).
He is the author of the musical itineraries that accompany visitors to the new installations of the Mazzini Memorial in Pisa and the Garibaldi Memorial in Caprera.
In 2013 he was a member of the Scientific Committee of Verdi Celebrations established by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. For the Italian Encyclopedia Institute (Treccani) he wrote an essay published in the large volume celebrating Verdi's bicentennial.
He is a component of the Simonetta Puccini Foundation.