Musica come pensiero e come azione. Studi in onore di Guido Salvetti
edited by Marina Vaccarini, Maria Grazia Sità, Andrea Estero

Lucca, Libreria Musicale Italiana - Roma, Società Editrice di Musicologia, 2014

XXIV, 960 pp.

This volume hosts forty-five essays and two compositions by students, friends, and colleagues paying homage to Guido Salvetti. In keeping with the dedicatee’s breadth of interests, a variety of approaches and topics, spanning from antiquity to the present day, is displayed.

Marina Vaccarini graduated in piano, harpsichord, and experimental composition (specializing in musicology) at the Milan Conservatory; she also got her Master's Degree in musicology at the Milan University. She has been working for years with the Arcadia Foundation on the Sammartini Project scholarly editions, as well as with the NoMus Association, Milan, as book co-editor (Marino Zuccheri and Friends, 2018; Alberto Savinio. L’uomo isola, 2019, both with Maria Maddalena Novati and Laura Pronestì). She carried out research on the Villa collection  and on Antonio Bazzini’s manuscripts at the Milan Conservatory Library. She wrote essays on conservatory teaching and contributed to the Musica nel Novecento italiano series under the Società Italiana di Musicologia aegis. She is currently teaching music history at the Brescia Conservatory (Darfo – Boario Terme annex).

Maria Grazia Sità graduated in composition (specializing in musicology) in Milan, then in organ in Udine, and in philosophy in Venice. Her main research area is Italian music from the 18th century to the present. She published essays on keyboard literature and improvisation, the history of music teaching, and some aspects of Italian 20th-century music. On these topics she also co-edited La cultura dei musicisti italiani nel Novecento (2003, with Guido Salvetti) and L’insegnamento dei Conservatorî, la composizione e la vita musicale nell’Europa dell’Ottocento (Lucca: LIM, 2012). She researched Béla Bartók’s life and works, wrote a book on him (Palermo: L’Epos, 2008) and one on his quartets with Corrado Vitale (Lucca: LIM, 2012). Her more recent work also extends to Franco Donatoni’s early music, with special reference to its relationship with Bartók’s. She currently teaches music history at the Perugia Conservatory.

Andrea Estero is active as a musicologist, a journalist, and a publisher. He studied at the Milan University and Conservatory and is currently editor-in-chief of the Libreria Musicale Italiana, Lucca, and of monthly review, Classic Voice. He wrote essays and papers on several interest areas, including music publishing history, music organization, and record production in 20th-century Italy, musical interpretation and opera conducting theory, musical analysis, and Franz Liszt. He co-edited two volumes with Guido Salvetti, namely, Italia 2000 (Milano, 2011) and La cultura musicale degli italiani (in preparation). Among recent writings, an essay on Claudio Abbado’s relationship to Giuseppe Verdi (Parma: Studi Verdiani) and Organizzare musica: l'Italia nel contesto globale (Rome: Treccani) can be cited.

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