J. Hirshberg. Tragedy and Lieto Fine in Romantic Opera Seria
Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Studies on Italian Music History, 12), pp. x+266, ISBN: 978-2-503-58642-7.
In a seminal essay Carl Dahlhaus has pointed out that »often it is possible to turn the ending in a different direction without making any difference to …
Read More →Rossini after Rossini: Musical and Social Legacy
edited by Arnold Jacobshagen, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Studies on Italian Music History, 13), ISBN: 978-2-503-58820-9, pp. xiv+420.
This volume reflects on Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) and the international reception of his work 150 years after his death.
Rossini was the most …
Read More →Fulvia Morabito, Pietro Antonio Locatelli: A Modern Artist in the Baroque Era
English Translation by Warwick Lister, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Studies on Italian Music History, 11), pp. xx+288, isbn 978-2-503-58017-3.
Pietro Antonio Locatelli (Bergamo 1693 – Amsterdam 1764) was a composer and violin virtuoso. After his period of education in Rome he …
Read More →The Early Keyboard Sonata in Italy and Beyond
edited by Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald, Turnhout, Brepols, 2016 (Studies on Italian Music History, 10), pp. xxii+334, isbn 978-2-503-56801-0.
The Early Keyboard Sonata in Italy and Beyond takes as its subject the birth of the keyboard sonata in Italy and its …
Read More →Locatelli and the Violin Bravura Tradition
edited by Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2015 (Studies on Italian Music History, 9), pp. xiv+406, ISBN 978-2-503-55535-5
2014 witnessed the 250th anniversary of the death of two violin virtuosos: Pietro Antonio Locatelli (Bergamo 1695 – Amsterdam 1764) and Jean-Marie Leclair …
Read More →VIVA V.E.R.D.I.: Music from Risorgimento to the Unification of Italy
edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2013 (Studies on Italian Music History, 8), pp. xii+396, ISBN: 978-2-503-54884-5
The present book investigates the musical landscape of the Italian peninsula from the Risorgimento to the formation of the unitary State, focusing in …
Read More →Verdi Reception
edited by Lorenzo Frassà and Michela Niccolai, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2013 (Studies on Italian Music History, 7), ISBN: 978-2-503-54615-5.
Organized in conjunction with the bicentenary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, this book contains fourteen contributions in which international scholars …
Read More →Paola Palermo – Giulia Pecis Cavagna, La cappella musicale di Santa Maria Maggiore a Bergamo dal 1657 al 1810
with documents transcriptions on Cd-Rom.
Turnhout, Brepols, 2011 (Studies on Italian Music History, 6), XII+526pp, Hardback, ISBN 978-2-503-51033-0.
From its very creation the musical chapel of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo was always one of the most outstanding of the …
Read More →Nicolò Paganini. Diabolus in Musica
edited by Andrea Barizza and Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2010, (Studies on Italian Music History, 5), XIV+566pp, Hardback, ISBN 978-2-503-53533-3.
Paganini is considered to be the greatest violin virtuoso of all time. He was a virtuoso who relied on the …
Read More →Studies on Italian Music History – Volumes 1-4
Vol. 4- Giovanni Battista Sammartini and his Musical Environment
edited by Anna Cattoretti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2004.
Vol.3 – Paul A. Mrkley – Lora L.M. Merkley, Music and Patronage in the Sforza Court
Turnhout, Brepols, 1999.
Vol. 2 – Davide Daolmi, …
Read More →New Masterclass
Medal of the President of the Republic
