Un’orchestra sopportabile 
La musica strumentale italiana tra XVIII e XIX secolo
edited by Mariateresa Dellaborra
(Essays, 4)

XII, 160 pp.; 21 x 14,8 cm

"The instrumental genre ruined music," Stendhal wrote in his 1814 description of the Italian music scene. His opinion, widely shared and echoed over several decades, loomed large on the standard repertory and its objective evaluation. This volume aims at reaching a more balanced assessment. Major figures from that era are explored, who helped shape that repertory. Unknown aspects of their music and its circulation, both at home and abroad, are highlighted. New historical data are presented, and compositions are discussed that are either unknown or approached from an unusual perspective.

Table of contents:

Presentazione

Nota della curatrice

Introduzione
Guido Salvetti

«Or qui comincian le dolenti note»
Intellettuali italiani e musica tra XVIII e XIX secolo 
Alessandro Peroni

Musica strumentale italiana in Francia nella seconda metà del Settecento 
Candida Felici

Boccherini tra camerismo e sinfonismo 
Guido Salvetti

«Tentava la vostra mano la tastiera...» 
Ascoltare musica a Pavia nell’Ottocento 
Gianfranca Lavezzi

Alessandro Rolla a Parma (1782-1802) 
Mariateresa Dellaborra

Musica strumentale per Maria Luisa d’Etruria nel fondo Borbone della Biblioteca Palatina di Parma 
Elena Previdi

Carlo Bignami: il virtuoso ‘poltrone’? 
Marina Vaccarini

«Avvicinandosi ad uno spirito tanto possente e venerato» I Capricci op. 1 di Paganini e la loro fortuna in Germania 
Danilo Prefumo

Indice dei nomi

Mariateresa Dellaborra teaches Music History at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali “Franco Vittadini”, Pavia. An authority on 18th- and 19th-century Italian music, she published books and essays for Olschki, Ets, Brepols, L’Epos, Lim, Ut Orpheus, Rugginenti, and Marsilio, wrote entries for The New Grove (2nd edition) and MGG, and edited instrumental compositions by Niccolò Paganini, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Alessandro Rolla, and Saverio Mercadante, as well as operas by Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Tommaso Traetta, Niccolò Jommelli, Marcos Portugal, and Alessandro Stradella. A board member of Arcadia Foundation, Milan, she coordinates the Monumenti Musicali Italiani section at SIdM, and participates in the ITMI (Indici della Trattatistica Musicale Italiana) working group, Franceschini Foundation, Florence.