by prof. Trident Cosmo.
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Until the '50s, the chairs that were part of the furniture of the house of many families molfettesi were of two types: luxury, known as "King sìegge de fenecchiétte" whose bottom was covered with bamboo fibers and " King sìegge de page ", the bottom was covered with straw. The first furnish the bedroom, the latter were usually in the kitchen. When the stuffing of the latter began to deteriorate for the continued use, to determine often break rush, they did not use throw them away but were repaired by an itinerant craftsman, on payment of a modest reward for the repairs carried out. He was called "Conzasiegge" item consists of "conza" = styling, repair, and "sìegge" = chairs.
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The repairman chairs ( conzasiegge )
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The repairer or mender of chairs was a man who earned his bread by applying the art passed down from father to son. He wandered around the country (attùrne Earth) walk with the bag with shoulder strap, full of reeds of different colors and related tools.
The repairer or mender of chairs was a man who earned his bread by applying the art passed down from father to son. He wandered around the country (attùrne Earth) walk with the bag with shoulder strap, full of reeds of different colors and related tools.
When he was called for the installation of the bottom chair, threw his burden on the floor of tools, sat on a makeshift bed from him and immediately began to work calmly and quietly. If he was in good spirits, working humming old songs such as "old boot" by Gino Latilla, "The Woods" by Narciso Parisi, "roses and gardenias" Vittoria Mongardi; "avenue of autumn" by Carla Boni; " down the avenue "by Natalino Otto;" mothers "by Giorgio Consolini," O Sole Mio "by Claudio Villa, and others.
Work of stuffing required a good knowledge of art: take a braid of straw, wrapped at one end of the seat frame rear cross, brought together the two heads twisting them together, led to the corresponding front cross this cordon, then brought him back to ' beginning of the rear cross member. A second strip of straw, as the first set but on another point, followed the same route, until you reach the center of the seat. At this point it's remained that weave, pull, tie and cut.
After work, he called the landlady said: "The patròene, the seats and Pronda!. (Mistress, the chair is ready!) And the mistress as you I have to give? "Pàgheme to piacèiere de segneràie" (Pay me pleasure to your lordship!). He took the small fee that he kept in a worn wallet, asked a bit 'of water to quench their thirst during the heat of summer, gathering the remains of his stuff again on a journey and shouting: "Oh conzasiegge! Conzasiegge ... Oh! ..." Aware that his job was hard and could not give up. "Labor omnia vincit improbus" (A tenacious effort to overcome every difficulty), says Virgil (Georgics, I, 144).
The year was 1857, remembered in history for a seismic earthquake warned December 16 that devastated large part of Basilicata and Campania causing over 11,000 deaths and destroyed over 6,000 homes. The quake, centered Montemurro and with an intensity now estimated magnitude of 6.9 on the Richter scale (Mercalli IX degree), broke out with two intense shock after a few seconds apart, at 22:15.
At that time, Maestro Vincenzo Valente (1830-1908), father of the funeral march Molfetta, as defined by Francesco Peruzzi had finished composing a march entitled "ancient plants." The title given to the march reminiscent of the homonymous poem written in 1871 by Carducci ("The tree that blinds / the little girl, hand / pomegranate green / From 'beautiful scarlet flowers ... "), in which the poet expresses deep sorrow for the son Dante, died of a sudden and unexpected access of fever at the age of three years. The adjective "old" in the title means that the agony of the poet is tried by the same people every time the face of death.
The march, however, does not fully meet the expectations of the Master Valente, who was living with the doubt of not being able to give her a worthy final composition. Suddenly, he heard in the street (at that time lived on a Ament No. 26) the cry of the repairer of chairs. The teacher was impressed and translated musically that call by adding it to the "Wailing old ", so his funeral early composition called" Conzasiegge.
The march is the oldest among those written by composers from Molfetta. You run the output of the dead Christ from the church of Santo Stefano, during the procession on Good Friday.
Work of stuffing required a good knowledge of art: take a braid of straw, wrapped at one end of the seat frame rear cross, brought together the two heads twisting them together, led to the corresponding front cross this cordon, then brought him back to ' beginning of the rear cross member. A second strip of straw, as the first set but on another point, followed the same route, until you reach the center of the seat. At this point it's remained that weave, pull, tie and cut.
After work, he called the landlady said: "The patròene, the seats and Pronda!. (Mistress, the chair is ready!) And the mistress as you I have to give? "Pàgheme to piacèiere de segneràie" (Pay me pleasure to your lordship!). He took the small fee that he kept in a worn wallet, asked a bit 'of water to quench their thirst during the heat of summer, gathering the remains of his stuff again on a journey and shouting: "Oh conzasiegge! Conzasiegge ... Oh! ..." Aware that his job was hard and could not give up. "Labor omnia vincit improbus" (A tenacious effort to overcome every difficulty), says Virgil (Georgics, I, 144).
The year was 1857, remembered in history for a seismic earthquake warned December 16 that devastated large part of Basilicata and Campania causing over 11,000 deaths and destroyed over 6,000 homes. The quake, centered Montemurro and with an intensity now estimated magnitude of 6.9 on the Richter scale (Mercalli IX degree), broke out with two intense shock after a few seconds apart, at 22:15.
At that time, Maestro Vincenzo Valente (1830-1908), father of the funeral march Molfetta, as defined by Francesco Peruzzi had finished composing a march entitled "ancient plants." The title given to the march reminiscent of the homonymous poem written in 1871 by Carducci ("The tree that blinds / the little girl, hand / pomegranate green / From 'beautiful scarlet flowers ... "), in which the poet expresses deep sorrow for the son Dante, died of a sudden and unexpected access of fever at the age of three years. The adjective "old" in the title means that the agony of the poet is tried by the same people every time the face of death.
The march, however, does not fully meet the expectations of the Master Valente, who was living with the doubt of not being able to give her a worthy final composition. Suddenly, he heard in the street (at that time lived on a Ament No. 26) the cry of the repairer of chairs. The teacher was impressed and translated musically that call by adding it to the "Wailing old ", so his funeral early composition called" Conzasiegge.
The march is the oldest among those written by composers from Molfetta. You run the output of the dead Christ from the church of Santo Stefano, during the procession on Good Friday.
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output Christ Died: at 4.00
(photo Thomas Messina)
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In "Conzasiegge" summarizes all the characteristics of works of the Master and that is: very singable, simple harmonic structure nice and versatility.
U Conzasiegge "was also played on special funeral. Indeed in the past, Molfetta, when death kidnapped in the prime of a spouse, family members expressed their sympathy funeral flowers spreading along the way "plenis Manibus", with the rate of melting of the march Valente. So that sorrow for the death of a spouse joined the pathos created by listening to the composition. This mournful funeral parade had its "ratio" in the proverbial words of Plutarch (greek writer of Chaeronea): "The death of young people is a shipwreck, that of a landing at the old port."
U Conzasiegge "was also played on special funeral. Indeed in the past, Molfetta, when death kidnapped in the prime of a spouse, family members expressed their sympathy funeral flowers spreading along the way "plenis Manibus", with the rate of melting of the march Valente. So that sorrow for the death of a spouse joined the pathos created by listening to the composition. This mournful funeral parade had its "ratio" in the proverbial words of Plutarch (greek writer of Chaeronea): "The death of young people is a shipwreck, that of a landing at the old port."
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sheet music of the funeral march "Conzasiegge" (courtesy of Professor. Mauro Spagnolo)
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* Text by the prof. Trident Cosmo.
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