Giovanni Paolo Colonna: The Return of a Baroque Genius

After more than three hundred years of silence, Giovanni Paolo Colonna’s masterpiece “Missa a più cori” returns to the concert stage. The work by the 17th-century Italian Baroque master will be heard at Klaipėda Concert Hall as a world premiere for our time, presented by an international project bringing together Lithuanian soloists from “Canto Fiorito,” the Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra, and the Lithuanian National Philharmonic. G. P. Colonna, who worked in Bologna, was not only a composer, organist, and teacher, but also one of the most prominent musical figures of his era. His influence reached the major cultural centres of Europe, and his sacred works