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The Quartet of dissonance "in Mozart's" Oedipus Rex "by Pasolini

The Quartet K 465 No. 19 in C major "by Amadeus Mozart is the last of the six quartets' arcs that the brilliant Austrian musician dedicated to his teacher Joseph Haydn. Some years after his first public performance (1785), this was called "Quartet of dissonance", the reason lies in the first movement e precisamente nell'introduzione che palesa tipicità musicali haydniane. I movimenti di quest'opera sono quattro: 1 adagio-allegro , 2 andante-cantabile , 3 minuetto-allegro , 4 allegro . Mi vorrei soffermare un poco a parlare del primo movimento che, oltre ad essere il più famoso, è di una bellezza unica ed è stato inserito in un film importante: Edipo re di Pier Paolo Pasolini. In questa pellicola del 1967 il regista friulano scelse di utilizzare la sola introduzione del movimento in questione che si colloca in momenti particolarmente toccanti e poetici della vicenda filmografica, lasciando nello spettatore una straordinaria emozione e rendendo sia il film che la music, unforgettable. Mozart's music is placed at the beginning and end of the film. At first you hear while on a lawn, a mother (Silvana Mangano) breastfeeding her child, the woman's face, smiling at first, suddenly looks upset, then returns to smile. This is a very early stage and at the same time very scary, is not without its mysterious sides. Superb is Pasolini's final film, where a modern Oedipus (played by Franco Citti) flute player and his messenger (Ninetto Davoli) roam the streets and squares of a town in rags, Oedipus, though blind, is like if it were attracted to a place that feels close and searching, along with the faithful messenger, initially in the suburbs (starting here the notes of the "Quartet of dissonance") and then out of town, finally the two come close to a lawn, then Oedipus has the distinct feeling that they've ever been to this place and, turning to the messenger, says, " Where are we? 'the messenger replied: "We in a place with many trees and lined with many small rivers and a large green lawn green . So Oedipus realizes that the place is what you see at the beginning of the film, he was in fact the child who was breastfed by a woman (his mother) and then pronounced this memorable and poetic words: "O light that I no longer saw, that somehow you were my first, now enlighten for the last time. I have come. Life ends where it begins . It starts at the grass ...