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Music in Unconventional Venues of Nineteenth-Century Europe
edited by Francesc Cortès and Ramón Sobrino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 60).
During the 19th century, music thrived in a variety of private and...
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Liszt and Princess Carolyn zu Sayn-Wittgenstein:
Religion, Music, Arts and Politics in Rome in the Second Half of the 19th Century
Institut français Centre Saint-Louis, Rome
22–23 October 2026
Proposals for papers should be sent to the following address: before 1 June 2026.
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Intellectual Property and Music in the Theatre
Barcelona, Institut d’Estudis Catalans
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Beyond Corelli: Geminiani and the Instrumental Music of his Time
Lovere (BG), Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
5-7 June 2026

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Musical Rhetoric Beyond Figures
edited by Joan Grimalt, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Applied Music Studies, 3), pp. xvi+398, ISBN 978-2-503-62472-3.
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Musical Rhetoric Beyond Figures offers a fresh exploration of musical...
Abbonizio, Isabella. Music and Colonialism in Fascist Italy: Identity, Propaganda, and Ethnographic Representation
Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Music, Criticism and Politics, 13), pp. xviii+274, ISBN 978-2-503-62468-6.
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This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of the role of music within...
Music and the Figurative Arts in the Baroque Era
edited by Florence Gétreau and Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 59), pp. xv+448+16 color ills., ISBN 978-2-503-62184-5.
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The figurative arts — or the...
The Body in Musical Performance: Knowledge, Gesture, and Identity
edited by Marcello Mazzetti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 2),pp. xx+276, ISBN 978-2-503-62192-0.
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This volume offers a groundbreaking exploration of musical embodiment across time,...
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The Composer-Conductor Figure between the 19th and 20th Centuries
edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 61).
Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many great musicians served as both composers and conductors,...
In Search of Morton Feldman. A Portrait of the Composer at 100
edited by Benjamin R. Levy, Turhout, Brepols, 2026 (Contemporary Composers, 8).
There is something inscrutable about Morton Feldman. His music resists analysis, first through...
Twentieth-Century Music Criticism and Racial Discourses
edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 14).
In recent decades, the relationship between music and criticism has been a key...
New Perspectives on the 19th-Century Cello
edited by George Kennaway, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae)
This book offers a rich variety of approaches to the nineteenth-century cello and cellists. Its range...
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Philosophical Hermeneutics and Musical Interpretation
organised by
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
IAM-Institute for Applied Musicology
International Virtual Conference
19-21 June 2026
The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini and the Italian Institute...
Soundscapes of Entertainment: Music at Leisure in the 19th Century
organised by
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Faculty of Educational Sciences
Croatian Musicological Society
Palazzetto Bru Zane
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Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
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Beyond the Drawing Room: Women in the Promotion of Music in the Long...
International Conference organized by
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française
IAM-Institute for Applied Musicology
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The Reception of the Wiener Klassik in Central Europe in the Long Nineteenth...
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Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française (Venice)
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Manuscript and Printed Musical Sources
(In collaboration with RISM - Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales)
Below it is possible to find the musical sources owned by the Centro Studi Opera...
The Jan Ladislav Dussek Collection
The Centro Studi possesses a collection of more than 100 sources of works by Jan Ladislav Dussek.
Many of these sources are unique specimens, not...
The Luigi Dallapiccola Collection
The collection comprises a copious list of unpublished sources, acquired over many years by the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini.
It contains 36 letters,...
The Fascist Italy Collection
The Centro Studi provide scholars a huge collection of musical sources, journals, archival and private documents and books referring to the world of music during the...
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Perspectives on the Music of György Kurtág: Performance, Language and Memory
Edited by Rachel Beckles Willson and Gergely Fazekas, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Contemporary Composers, 7), pp. xii+252, ISBN 978-2-503-61866-1.
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The present volume has been made possibile by the friendly support of the
György Kurtág, who is...
«Sicut in caelo»: Sacred Music in Early Modern Italy
edited by Galliano Ciliberti and Thomas Neal, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Studies on Italian Music History, 21), pp. xx + 480, ISBN: 978-2-503-62185-2.
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This volume offers a comprehensive examination of sacred music in Italy from the...
European Musical Competitions, 1700-1940: History, Context and Meanings
edited by Charles Edward McGuire, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 56), pp. xii+412, ISBNÂ Â 978-2-503-61861-6.
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As music moved from the church and court into the public sphere, competitions – as loci of taste, judgements of one...
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