Signature in Venice of the deed of donation of Alberto Bruni-Tedeschi’s archives to the Giorgio Cini Foundation

When her first album came out in 2002, Carla Bruni spoke widely about her father and the way he influenced  her musical tastes before she started to form her own.  Alberto Bruni Tedeschi (1915-1996) was a composer of operas, requiems and other works in twelve-tone. After he died,   his manuscripts, scores, recordings and other working documents were put together into a collection.  On November 3 2009 Carla Bruni-Sarkozy  went to Venice with her sister Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and their mother Marisa Borini for a signing ceremony in which they made over the Alberto Bruni Tedeschi archive to the Giorgio Cini Foundation.  The Georgio Cini Foundation was created in 1951 by Count Vittorio Cini with the aim of restoring the Venetian island of San Giorgio Maggiore and of creating an international cultural centre.   It houses a centre for research into contemporary culture made up of eight institutes (history of art, literature, music, science etc).  Another premises at the Palazzo Cini at San Vio contains masterpieces by Piero delle Francesca and Botticelli.   A concert was organised for the signing ceremony on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore.  The symphony orchestra and choir of Croatian state radio-television performed Bruni Tedeschi’s  Mass for the Nyondo Mission – a work which he composed after a visit to Africa and which had its premier in Hamburg in 1953.  Attending the concert were fashion designers  Pierre Cardin and Miuccia Prada and the director of the Palazzo Grassi Monique Veaute.