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In the summer 1838, during the long period of dismissal authorized by the king of Prussia, Spontini went to England where he was welcomed with great honours at  the court of Queen Victoria, for whom he wrote some cantatas. He went then to Paris and finally to Italy. On October 30th he reached Jesi and stayed there for forty days, starting the institutions of a pawnsbroker’s for Jesi’s and Maiolati’s indigents with the donation of 30 000 francs. During his permanence in Jesi, Spontini had some conversations with Cardinal Ostini, archbishop of Jesi, to which followed Cardinal’s issuing of the edict “against the abuse of theatrical music introduced in churches” (November 27th, 1838).
Spontini studied deeply the matter up to compile a vast and organic plan of reform of the church music that culminated in the Report about the Reform of sacred music (1839). Gaspare Spontini cared a lot about his theoretical work and, tirelessly,  he did not stop promoting it and regretting Pio IX’s decision, in 1847, to entrust other people with the reform of the desecrated religious church music. In 1847 he concluded his artistic activity with the conduction of the Olimpie at the Musical Festival of the Lower Rhine in the city of Cologne.
Spontini, together with his consort, reached Jesi in 1850, welcomed with great honours and celebrations; from Jesi he went to Maiolati, to not leave it again. On January 24th 1851 Gaspare Spontini died in Celeste’s arms at the age of 76 years, because of pulmonary complications. His body, in the winter uniform of Academician of France, was laid in Saint Stephen’s Church of Maiolati, waiting to be moved to the sepulchre in S. Giovanni’s Church, as he wished.

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Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore - Prosa Maiolati Spontini 2019
06/03/2019    
21:00 - 23:00
Maiolati Spontini, Teatro G. Spontini VicoQuartoMazzini - ATGTP SEI PERSONAGGI IN CERCA D'AUTORE da Luigi Pirandello uno spettacolo di VicoQuartoMazzini con Michele Altamura, Alice Conti, [...]
Il gabbiano - Stagione Prosa Jesi 2018-2019
08/03/2019    
21:00 - 23:00
Un affascinante incontro fra due protagonisti assoluti del teatro italiano, Massimo Ranieri e Giancarlo Sepe, per la prima volta insieme, mettono in scena l’8 marzo [...]
Buongiorno buonanotte – Stagione Teatro Ragazzi 2018-2019
10/03/2019    
17:00 - 19:00
Jesi, Teatro G.B. Pergolesi GialloMare Minimal Teatro BUONGIORNO BUONANOTTE PER ULTERIORI APPROFONDIMENTI Acquista online il tuo biglietto
Macbettu - Stagione Prosa Jesi 2018-2019
16/03/2019    
21:00 - 23:00
Un Macbeth che si esprime in sardo e, come nella più pura tradizione elisabettiana interpretato da soli uomini, è l’originale progetto di Sardegna Teatro Macbettu [...]
VIRTUOSO - Stagione Sinfonica FORM
22/03/2019    
21:00 - 23:00
JESI, TEATRO G.B. PERGOLESI VIRTUOSO A. Gentile, Ho scritto una canzone, dedicata ad Ennio Morricone P. I. Čajkovskij Variazioni su un tema rococò per violoncello e orchestra, [...]
Colpo di scena - Prosa Maiolati Spontini 2019
29/03/2019    
21:00 - 23:00
Maiolati Spontini, Teatro G. Spontini EnteTeatro Cronaca Vesuvio Teatro COLPO DI SCENA scritto, interpreto e diretto da Carlo Buccirosso con Gino Monteleone, Gennaro Silvestro, Peppe [...]
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