Italian National Edition of Locatelli’s Complete Works

The Complete Works of Pietro Antonio Locatelli was designated an Italian National Edition by Ministerial Decree of 2 June 1999.

Advisory Board

Sergio Durante (Padova, President), Ludwig Finscher (Heidelberg), Gustav Leonhardt (Amsterdam), Emilia Bricchi Piccioni (Cremona, Secretary Treasurer), Reinhard Strohm (Oxford), Michael Talbot (Liverpool), Christoph Wolff (Cambridge, MA).

Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695-1764) Locatelli was a violinist and composer from Bergamo, who after a period in Rome and a brilliant career as a virtuoso in various European cities eventually settled in Holland, where he spent a large portion of his life. Today he is numbered among the leading Italian musicians of the late-Baroque period.

In 1994 the Locatelli Foundation reached an agreement with the publishers Schott (Mainz, London, Madrid, Paris, New York, Tokyo and Toronto) concerning the publication of P.A. Locatelli’s complete works. The critical edition (1994-2002) consists of ten volumes. The first eight volumes contains the Locatelli’s published works, the ninth the unnumbered compositions, while the tenth includes a thematic catalogue, the letters and documents relating to his life and an iconography. Also to be published are the separate parts for the orchestral works, as well as a practical edition of the chamber works. A separate edition of the 12 Concerti of the Arte del Violino, arranged for violin and piano, is also under consideration. Finally, pocket-score versions will be published by Eulenburg.

The editorial work of the Italian National Edition of the Opera omnia of P. A. Locatelli is being carried out by the staff of the “Stichting-Fondazione P.A. Locatelli” (Amsterdam-Lucca). Drs Roberto Illiano, Fulvia Morabito and Massimiliano Sala will follow all the various phases of production right up to the publication of the volumes.

Locatelli’s Biography

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Practical Edition

Critical Edition