Research in Musicology
Steering Committee - Charter Members
Massimiliano Sala - President
Is President of the Centro Studi Opera omnia Luigi Boccherini-Onlus (Lucca) and Vice-President of the Italian National Edition of Muzio Clementi’s Complete Works. After obtaining a D.M.A in piano (1998), he graduated in musicology from the University of Pavia/Cremona and is at the present a doctoral candidate in musicology at Koblenz/Landau University under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Christian Speck. He is on the advisory board of the Italian National Edition of Luigi Boccherini’s Complete Works and Secretary-Treasurer of the Italian National Edition of Pietro Antonio Locatelli’s Complete Works. He is on the editorial committee of the Ad Parnassum Studies and Boccherini Studies and on the advisory board of the Quaderni Clementiani series. He is also General Editor of the series Studies on Italian Music History (Brepols Publishers) and a founder of Ad Parnassum. A Journal on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music (Ut Orpheus Edizioni). He contributed the article on Giovanni Battista Viotti to Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart 2 and has edited the volumes Muzio Clementi. Studies and Prospects (2002), Muzio Clementi cosmopolita della musica (2004), Giovanni Battista Viotti. A Composer between the Two Revolutions (2006), Domenico Scarlatti Adventures. Essays to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of His death (con W. Dean Sutcliffe, 2008) and Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America (Brepols 2009). His publications includes articles on XVIIIth-XXth-centuries music, such as ‘Giovanni Battista Viotti’s Quartets from Paris to London’ (Poznań) and ‘Italian Music and Racial Discourses during the Fascist Period’ (CUP).
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Fulvia Morabito - Vice-President
With a diploma in piano (Conservatorio Luigi Boccherini, Lucca) and a degree with distinction and the right of publication in musicology (University of Pavia), in 1994 joined the editorial staff of the Stichting-Fondazione Pietro Antonio Locatelli (Amsterdam-Lucca) as editor of the Locatelli Opera omnia; at the same time, involved in research, she published many pieces including monographs, edited works, articles, sleeve notes, etc. In 2003 she was nominated as expert in the subject “Baroque and Classical Music” at the University of Pavia. In 2004 she was among the founders of the biannual journal Ad Parnassum. A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music and of Ad Parnassum Studies (Ut Orpheus Edizioni). Since 2005 she has been General Editor of the Monumenta Musica Europea series (Brepols Publishers) and member of the scientific committee of the Italian National Edition of Luigi Boccherini’s Opera omnia (Ut Orpheus Edizioni). Since 2008 she has been member of the Advisory Board of the Francesco Geminiani’s Opera Omnia (Ut Orpheus Edizioni). She is currently Vice-president of the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini–Onlus, Lucca.
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Roberto Illiano - Secretary-Treasurer
Is General Secretary of the Centro Studi Opera omnia Luigi Boccherini-Onlus (Lucca) and President of the Italian National Edition of Muzio Clementi’s Complete Works. He is member of the Council of Management of the La Spezia Concerts Society. He graduated in musicology in 1993 and further qualified in palaeography and musical philology in 1998. He collaborated with the Stichting-Fondazione Pietro Antonio Locatelli of Amsterdam-Lucca since 1999. He is on the advisory board of the Italian National Edition of Luigi Boccherini’s Complete Works (Secretary Treasurer) and of Muzio Clementi’s Opera omnia. He is a founder of Ad Parnassum. A Journal on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music (Ut Orpheus Edizioni) and General Editor of the series Speculum Musicae (Brepols Publishers). He is also on the editorial committee of the Ad Parnassum Studies and Boccherini Studies, and on the advisory board of the Quaderni Clementiani series. He has published a variety of writing on XVIIIth-XIXth-century music and analyses of XXth-century music, especially that of Luigi Dallapiccola. He is co-editor of the volumes Muzio Clementi. Studies and Prospects (Ut Orpheus Edizioni 2002), Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America (Brepols 2009), Instrumental Music and the Industrial Revolution (Bologna, 2010), and editor of the volume Italian Music during the Fascist Period (Brepols 2004). At present, he is working on the monograph Luigi Dallapiccola: un percorso di studio, collaborating with Luca Sala, and editing the book Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812): A Bohemian Composer en voyage through Europe,with Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald (Quaderni Clementiani, 4).
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Christian Speck- Scientific Director
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 (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.
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Steering Committee - Members
Lorenzo Frassà - Artistic Director
Is a member of the Steering Committee of the Centro Studi Opera omnia Luigi Boccherini-Onlus (Lucca). He graduated in musicology at the University of Pavia/Cremona in 2003 with a dissertation in opera history entitled Il teatro musicale di G. Rossini, 1810-1823: relazioni con le fonti e varianti d’autore: alcune considerazioni. In 2005 he founded the agency of artist representation and music promotion MAGADIS International Music Agency. In 2006 he set up, as sole administrator, the BravoMaestro company which runs the www.bravomaestro.com portal for the online sale of classical music. He is a member of the Editorial Commettee of the Boccherini Studies and Ad Parnassum Studies, and he is an editorial collaborator for the publications of the Centro Studi Opera omnia Luigi Boccherini. His fields of research particularly concern the operatic world in the 18th-20th centuries. He is at present editing the volumes “The Opéra-comique in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”, Turnhout, Brepols (Speculum Musicae, 15), “Verdi Reception” (Speculum Musicae, 19) and the critical edition of the “Musical Characteristics Op. 19, Fantasia con Variazioni Op. 48 and 12 Monferrinas Op. 49” for the Italian National Edition of the Muzio Clementi’s complete works. He's artistic director of the Festival Boccherini.
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Honorary Members
Luca Sala is Secretary-Treasurer of the Italian National Edition of Muzio Clementi’s Complete Works and an Honorary member of the Centro Studi Opera omnia Luigi Boccherini-Onlus (Lucca). He graduated in musicology from the University of Pavia/Cremona, continued his studies at the Jagellonian University of Krakow, and is now attending a Ph.D in musicology at the École Doctorale des Sciences Humaines et Arts of Poitiers (France) University under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jean Gribenski. He is on the advisory board of Muzio Clementi’s Opera omnia, and is on the editorial committee of the series Ad Parnassum Studies, Boccherini Studies e Quaderni Clementiani (scientific committee); he is also a founder of Ad Parnassum. A Journal on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music (Ut Orpheus Edizioni). He also is on the editorial board of the Hellenic journal of music, education and culture. He is the author of the article on Francesco Maria Veracini contributed to 'Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart 2' and has edited the volumes Muzio Clementi. Studies and Prospects (2002), European ‘fin de siècle’ and Polish Modernism. The Music of Mieczysław Karłowicz (2010) and Instrumental Music and the Industrial Revolution (2010 ). He has published a variety of writing on XVIIIth-XXth-centuries music, focusing especially on the relationships between text and musical creative process, in particular in the works of Luigi Dallapiccola and Polish Modernism. At the present he is working on the monograph Luigi Dallapiccola: un percorso di studio (collaborating with Roberto Illiano), on the critical edition of Luigi Boccherini’s Stabat Mater and on the book The Legacy of Richard Wagner (Brepols, 2012). He has presented several papers at conferences in Italy and Europe (Graz, Leeds, London, Brno, Poznan, Friburg, Rome, Birmingham, Florence).
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Contributing Members
Bert W. Meijer
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