Research in Musicology
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. 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 (with R. Illiano and L. Sala, 2002), Muzio Clementi cosmopolita della musica (with R. Bösel, 2004), Giovanni Battista Viotti. A Composer between the Two Revolutions (2006), Domenico Scarlatti Adventures. Essays to Commemorate the 250th Anniversary of His Death (with W. Dean Sutcliffe, 2008) and Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America (with R. Illiano, 2009). His publications include articles on xviiith-xxth-centuries music, such as ‘Italian Music and Racial Discourses during the Fascist Period’ (CUP 2007), ‘Giovanni Battista Viotti’s Quartets from Paris to London’ (Poznań 2009), 'New Evidence on Dussek’s Life and Works. Unpublished Correspondence and Concert Advertisements', ‘Cabiria di Pizzetti e la musica per il romanzo cinematografico in Italia negli anni Venti’ (Bologna 2011), and ‘Paganini and His Surrounding Myths’ (Poznań 2011). At present he’s editing the volumes From Stage to Screen: Musical Films in Europe and United States (1927-1961) and Vincenzo Manfredini: Regole Armoniche […] (Brepols 2012), and working on the role of Jazz in Spain during the Franco’s regime.
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.
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).
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.
Luca Sala graduated in musicology from the University of Pavia (Italy), continued his studies at the Jagellonian University of Kraków (Poland) for two semester fellowships, and is now attending a Ph.D in Musicology at Poitiers University (France). Founder of the journal Ad Parnassum. A Journal on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music (Ut Orpheus Edizioni), he is member of the Scientific Committées of the Italian National Edition of Muzio Clementi's Complete Works and Italian National Edition of Luigi Boccherini's Complete Works (Italian Ministerial Decrees), and on the advisory board of the Hellenic journal of music, education and culture. He has published a variety of writing on xviiith-xxth-centuries music, focusing especially either on the relationships between text and musical creative process in European Modernism, in particular in the works of Luigi Dallapiccola and Mieczysław Karłowicz, or on musical edition philological analysis. He has edited the volume European 'fin de siècle' and Polish Modernism. The Music of Mieczysław Karłowicz (2010) and co-edited the volumes Instrumental Music and the Industrial Revolution (2010) and Muzio Clementi. Studies and Prospects (2002). At the present he is writing the monograph Luigi Dallapiccola: un percorso di studio (under project, collaborating with Roberto Illiano), and working on the Symposium Proceedings «Grandeur et finesse». Chopin, Liszt and the Parisian Musical Scene, (Ut Orpheus, 2012), on a Ad Parnassum Monographic Issue on Polish Fin-de-siècle Music (Oct 2011), and on the miscellaneous book The Legacy of Richard Wagner (Brepols, 2012). He has presented several papers at International Conferences and Symposia. Actual research project points out investigation about relationships between propaganda and protest music in post-war europe.
Rudolf Rasch studied musicology in Amsterdam with Profs. Karel Philippus Bernet Kempers and Joseph Smits van Waesberghe. He wrote a dissertation on polyphonic carols in the Spanish Netherlands in the seventeenth century (Utrecht, 1985) and was affiliated to the Institute of Musicology of Utrecht University from 1977 until 2010, where he taught music theory, musical history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, musical history of the Netherlands and organology. His main research interests are the musical history of the Netherlands, tuning and temperament questions, and the works of composers such as Corelli, Vivaldi, Geminiani and Boccherini. He has published articles, books and editions in these fields, including Music Publishing in Europe 1600-1900 (a collection of essays edited, 2005), Driehonderd brieven over muziek (letters about music written by and to Constantijn Huygens, 2007), and critical editions of the Duetti per 2 Violini Opus 3 and the Sonate per tastiera e violino Opus 5 by Luigi Boccherini (2007, 2009). He is now preparing critical editions of the Trii per 2 violini e violoncello Opus 1 by Luigi Boccherini and the Sonate a violino, violone e cembalo by Francesco Geminiani. He was or still is on the board of the Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, the International Musicological Society and various other musicological organisations. He is a member of the editorial board of periodical such as Ad Parnassum, the Revue Belge de Musicologie, the Journal of the Alamire Foundation and Studia Musicologica, and he is general editor of the series Muziek uit de Republiek, with editions of Dutch music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He likes to play the violin and the pianoforte as a dilettante and is the president of an amateur symphony orchestra in the Netherlands.
Is Honorary member 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. 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.