Around Abel Gance's Napoleon: an itinerary taking in cinema and music

Lecture in Italian

Famous composers, such as Arthur Honegger, wrote music for Gance’s silent film Napoleon, but few theatres in 1927 had resident orchestras; usually a pianist would provide accompaniment with pieces chosen from compilations such as the Allgemeines Handbuch der Film-Musik by Hans Erdmann, Giuseppe Becce and Ludwig Brav, or Motion Picture Moods by Ernö Rapée. To sequences from Napoleon, Gabriele Dal Santo will perform a selection of music from those repertoires chosen by Marco Bellano, who will take a closer look both at the film and at music used to accompany silent films.