Sylvano Bussotti's Pride Avant-Garde. Homage at the Triennale

In the week that celebrates the Lgbtqia+ community, the Triennale with the Ricordi historical archive dedicates a tribute to Sylvano Bussotti (Florence 1931 – Milan 2021), a composer belonging to the avant-garde of the 50s-70s whose musical production, notable for its graphic innovations, is intertwined with other forms: literary, plastic, scenic and cinematographic. Homosexual, he challenged the conventions of his time with works on the relationship between art and eros.

In the Triennale you can explore an installation , presented among others by Rocco Quaglia , choreographer and dancer who was a collaborator and companion of Bussotti, on “ Lorenzaccio ”, a romantic danced melodrama inspired by the homonymous work by Alfred de Musset that debuted in Venice at the 1972 Biennale , and listen to a 12-minute symphonic extract; in the atrium some pages of the autographed score and prints of the stage sketches will be reproduced on a screen.

Grace Lissi