On December 26, 2025, Angelo BRANDUARDI, a singer-songwriter who composes pieces about St. Francis, gave a concert in Rome to herald the upcoming 800th<\/sup> anniversary of the Transitus<\/em> of St. Francis of Assisi and to conclude the 800th<\/sup> anniversary commemorating the saint\u2019s composition of the Canticle of the Creatures.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The concert was attended by an audience of 2,700 admirers of the renowned medieval minstrel St. Francis. The event took place at the Santa Cecilia Concert Hall located in the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone Complex in Rome. Roberto DAMIATA, Journalist<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On December 26, 2025, Angelo BRANDUARDI, a singer-songwriter who composes pieces about St. Francis, gave a concert in Rome to herald the upcoming 800th anniversary of the Transitus of St. Francis of Assisi and to conclude the 800th anniversary commemorating the saint\u2019s composition of the Canticle of the Creatures. The concert was attended by an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,117,148],"tags":[2962,2300,353],"class_list":["post-92029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-federations","category-fimp-en","category-news","tag-angelo-branduardi-en","tag-franciscan-centenary","tag-rome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95272,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92029\/revisions\/95272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBacked by his four longtime instrumentalists, the artist performed eleven pieces from his album L\u2019infinitamente Piccolo,<\/em> which talks about the life of St. Francis. The first song was Canticle of Brother Sun<\/em>, followed by ten of BRANDUARDI\u2019s best-known pieces from the 1970s through the 1990s.
\nThe idea of setting the life of St. Francis to music was first introduced in 1999, with the goal of spreading the message of St. Francis during the 2000 Jubilee Year. At that time, Friar Paolo FIASCONARO was the Coordinating Secretary for the Assembly of the four Franciscan Families of Italy, which was conducted in Sardinia. Friar Paolo invited the artist to present his plan to the sixty Ministers Provincial attending the Assembly. Mr. BRANDUARDI spoke to them and explained his deep artistic and spiritual bond with St. Francis.
\nThus the album L\u2019infinitamente Piccolo<\/em> was born. Its eleven songs are based on texts selected by BRANDUARDI\u2019s wife, Luisa ZAPPA. She took the texts from the Franciscan Sources and other books the friars had given her husband. Maestro BRANDUARDI involved four great musical forces of the time in his project, namely, the composers Ennio MORRICONE and Franco BATTIATO, and the renowned ensembles Madredeus<\/em> and Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare. <\/em>During the 2000 Jubilee Year, Mr. BRANDUARDI performed 150 concerts across Italy and Europe.
\nTwenty-five years later, on the occasion of the Franciscan 800th<\/sup> anniversaries, Friar Paolo FIASCONARO\u2014on behalf of the Union of the Conferences of Ministers Provincial of the Franciscan Family of Italy\u2014proposed that the songwriter take up the project again, even at the age of seventy-five. The friars enthusiastically supported the idea, giving rise to a new tour. The tour was further enriched when the friars of the Sacred Convent of Assisi suggested that Mr. BRANDUARDI collaborate with Aldo CAZZULLO, the author of the book \u201cFrancesco: Il Primo Italiano<\/em>\u201d [Francis: the First Italian]. Thus, Mr. CAZZULLO is now part of the new show, which will be a highlight during the 800th<\/sup> anniversary celebrations. The concert tour will begin in Pisa, Italy, on February 12, 2026, and will continue on to major theaters across Italy and Europe.
\nAt the end of the concert performed this December, Mr. BRANDUARDI and Friar Paolo FIASCONARO spent some time together talking about their great Franciscan concert series twenty-five years ago. They recalled past successes, the original musical program based on the life of St. Francis, and discussed future projects inspired by the Saint of Assisi.<\/p>\n