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Venice Music Project

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Venice Music Project (VMP) is a cultural association founded in 2013 in Venice dedicated to the research, restoration, and performance of Venetian Baroque music. The organisation focuses particularly on rediscovering neglected or unpublished works preserved in archival collections and performing them in ways that aim to recreate their original sound and setting.

Venice Music Project was recommended in New York Times 36 hours in Venice.^[1]

History

Venice Music Project was established in 2013 with the aim of reviving the musical heritage of Venice from the Baroque period.^[2] Since its foundation, the association has combined archival research with live performance, seeking to bring previously unperformed or forgotten works to modern audiences.

The organisation has developed a programme of regular concerts and research initiatives centred on Venetian composers, most notably Antonio Vivaldi and manuscripts held in local and international archives. Its activities have expanded to include collaborations with cultural institutions and participation in documentary projects highlighting its research.

Mission and Objectives

The stated mission of Venice Music Project is the preservation, restoration, and promotion of Venetian Baroque music. The association approaches musical manuscripts in a manner comparable to the restoration of artworks or architecture, preparing historical sources for modern performance.^[3]

Musical Archaeology Project

A central initiative of the organisation is its Musical Archaeology Project, which focuses on identifying, studying, and reviving previously unknown or long-unperformed compositions from Venetian archives.

In 2026, the organisation will present the results of a two-year research project on the only surviving Venetian manuscript of Tetide in Sciro, a three-act opera by Domenico Scarlatti. The project involved scholarly analysis and transposition of the work for modern performance.

Past Projects

2019 Nicolò Jommelli (1714–1774) Requiem for string orchestra, choir, and 4 soloists. Performance of modern transcription by Venice Music Project of the most-frequently used Requiem mass setting prior to Mozart.

2020 Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747) Astianatte, lost opera. Performance of modern transcription by Venice Music Project of the surviving arias from a manuscript preserved in Cambridge, UK.

2021 "Neglected Treasures of Venetian Baroque Music". Along with other manuscripts written for the orphans at the Ospedaletto, an aria by Pasquale Anfossi (1727 – 1797), discovered in a fresco at the Sala della Musica of the Ospedaletto in Venice, was restored. VMP performed the aria in 2021 at the Scuola Grande dei Carmini and the article, Music painted on the wall of a Venetian orphanage will be heard again nearly 250 years later,^[4] quickly went viral, prompting interviews by the BBC and the Australian ABC.

2021 Johann Adolf Hasse (1699–1783) Salve Regina in G Major, motet in four movements for soprano and string orchestra. Performance of modern transcription by Venice Music Project

2022 Johann Adolf Hasse (1699–1783) L'Armonica, cantata for soprano, glass harmonica and string orchestra. Performance of modern transcription by Venice Music Project in occasion of the Venice Glass Week 2023.

2022 Carlo Arrigoni (1697–1744) Flora, misera Flora, cantata for soprano, solo violin, and basso continuo. Performance of modern transcription by Venice Music Project.

2023 Johann Adolf Hasse (1699–1783) La Deposizione dalla Santa Croce, oratorio for orchestra, chorus, and 5 soloists. Transcription and first performances in modern day over Easter of Venice Music Project's 2023 Concert Season.

2023 Antonio Sacchini (1730–1786) two Ave Regina Coelorum, motets in various movements for soprano and string orchestra. Performance of modern transcriptions by Venice Music Project.

2023 Antonio Caldara (1670–1735) six Motets-duets for voices of soprano, alto, tenor and bass in different combinations, and basso continuo. Thanks to a contribution by Regione Veneto, Venice Music Project transcribed, for the first time according to modern philology criteria, the whole Manuscript 17 preserved at the Biblioteca e Archivio delle Istituzioni di Ricovero e di Educazione IRE of Venice.

2024 Giovanni Porta (1675–1755) and Johann Adolf Hasse (1699–1783), contemporaries of Vivaldi: 2 motets. Discovered in the Montagu Music Collection at Boughton House, UK. The trailer of the documentary recounting this discovery is currently available here.

2024 Kaspar Förster the Young (1616?-1673) Ferma, rigida Parca, cantata for solo voice and basso continuo. This cantata is signed under a misspelled name on RISM, and the manuscript is badly damaged; while the missing bars are impossible to be reconstructed due to lost lyrics, Venice Music Project transcribed and performed the cantata for the first time in modern day.

2024 Alessandro Stradella (1643–1682) / Giovanni Legrenzi (1626–1690) "Bella, non piangere," aria for soprano and basso continuo. First performance in modern day from modern transcription by Venice Music Project.

2025 Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757): opera. Written for 4 sopranos and 2 contraltos, Tetide in Sciro tells the story of Achilles's mother, Thetis (Tetide), disguising Achilles as a woman in her desperate attempt to avoid his destined death in the Trojan War. This latest project, is underway with a projected performance date in 2026.

Performances and Venues

Venice Music Project stages concerts in historic Venetian settings, notably the Scuola Grande dei Carmini.