Música Por la Paz: 50 Años La Folía

La Folía, an early music ensemble founded by Pedro Bonet, presents Francesco Corselli's Oficio de Difuntos alongside Baroque works by Vivaldi and Marcello, in a concert celebrating its fiftieth anniversary and forming part of the Música por la Paz series.

La Folía, founded by Pedro Bonet, works on the recovery, study and performance of early music in Spain. Its work is based on a historicist approach, the use of period instruments and attention to the Hispanic and European musical heritage. This concert marks fifty years since the ensemble was formed.

The programme centres on Francesco Corselli's Oficio de Difuntos, accompanied by works by Antonio Vivaldi and Benedetto Marcello. The journey explores meditation on memory, the spiritual dimension of singing and the way music can turn mourning into a shared experience, with repertoire from the European Baroque of the eighteenth century.

The concert is part of the annual Música por la Paz series, which the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid dedicates each year to the memory of Professor Francisco Tomás y Valiente, a lecturer at that university as well as a jurist and historian. It is organised together with the Faculty of Law and the Fundación Cultura de Paz. It takes place in the Sala Sinfónica of the Auditorio Nacional de Música, in the Madrid district of Chamartín, a venue devoted mainly to classical music.