The Teatro del Maggio announces for Sunday, December 3rd, at 11 am, in the Main Hallof the Theatre, an extraordinary choral symphonic concert to raise funds for the Tuscan territories tragically and heavily affected by the flood at the beginning of November.

On the bill two compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven: Elegischer Gesang (Elegiac Song) Op. 118 and Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op 92.

On the podium of the Maggio Orchestra and Choir , maestro Daniele Gatti; the choirmaster is Lorenzo Fratini.

Maestro Gatti, Maestro Fratini, the Choir and the Maggio Orchestra renounce their fees for this humanly important and solidarity event.

To encourage maximum participation and allow substantial proceeds to be donated to the local area, tickets price owill be 20 euros (single seat in the entire theatre) and 10 euros for people up to 18 years of age (single seat in the entire theatre).

Beethoven's first composition for mixed choir and strings - on an anonymous text - is an intimate, collected and gentle, very expressive piece which is aimed at those who suffer to participate fraternally in their pain.

Symphony No. 7 in A major op. 92, composed between 1811 and 1812, debuted in Vienna on 8 December 1813 conducted by the same author in a musical evening for the benefit of the Austrian soldiers returning from the battle of Hanau. The composition was favorably received by the Viennese who especially liked the second movement, the Allegretto, which was even encored. Considered at the time, by the critics of the time, to be extravagant in some respects and bordering on excess, it was instead appreciated by Richard Wagner, who deserves the credit of immediately intuiting its true essence, who defined it as «the apotheosis of dance ». In this Symphony the dialectic between light and shadow is underlined and blossoms in its finale when the drama between evil and good has been resolved in favor of the good and positivity of life.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Elegischer Gesang in E major for chorus and orchestra Op. 118
Symphony No. 7 in A major Op. 92