Raffaella Bianchi. A Cultural History of La Scala in the Risorgimento (1814-1848)
Turnhout, Brepols, 2022 (Studies on Italian Music History, 16).
This study of the La Scala opera house uses the approaches of cultural history to explore the world of Milan’s historic opera house at a crucial point in Italian History.
It …
Read More →Music Patronage in Italy
During the Renaissance and throughout the Baroque and Classical periods, musical production is linked to patronage. There are essentially …
Read More →Luigi Cherubini: A Multifaceted Composer at the Turn of the 19th Century
edited by Massimiliano Sala, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Studies on Italian Music History, 14), pp. x+494, ISBN 978-2-503-59100-1.
This volume investigates the figure of Luigi Cherubini, with the aim of providing a picture of the various faces that a composer and …
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 →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 →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 →New Masterclass
