Centro Studi Opera Omnia
Luigi Boccherini
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Christian Speck is President of the Italian National Edition of Luigi Boccherini’s Complete Works and a charter member and scientific director of the Centro Studi Opera omnia Luigi Boccherini-Onlus (Lucca). He is Professor of Musicology at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. Following his studies at Munich Academy of Music, he received his Ph.D. from the Munich University in 1984, with a dissertation on Boccherini’s string quartets (Munich, Fink, 1987) and his Habilitation from the Tübingen University. In 1986 he discovered a twelfth Boccherini cello concerto in Naples, some cello Sonatas at the Abbey of Seitenstetten in Austria, and recently he found three new manuscripts of Concert Arias at the Biblioteca de la Catedral of Santiago de Compostela. He has contributed articles on Boccherini for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001) and for Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart 2.
Contacts: Christian.Speck@t-online.de
Publications
Books - Edited Volumes - Essays in Books and Journal Articles
Christian Speck, Das italienische Oratorium 1625-1665. Musik und Dichtung, Turnhout, Brepols, 2003.
