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Music for Band, edited by Denise Gallo (BA 10502, Kassel 2010).
1-3. Trois Marches militaires for Nicholas I, Emperor of all the Russias
4. Marcia (Pas redoublé) for Sultan Abdul-Medjid
5. La corona d'Italia: Fanfare per musica militare for King Victor Emanuel II.
Appendix I (versions of Nos. 1-3).
A. Two Pas redoublés for larger band, dedicated to Crown Prince Oscar of Sweden and Norway and to King Leopold I of the Belgians
B. Two Pas redoublés and a Marche militaire for piano, 4 hands, dedicated to Charlotte de Rothschild
C. Mariage de S. A. R. le Duc d'Orléans: Trois Marches militaires for piano, 2 hands.
Appendix II.
Coro (in Passo doppio) offerto alla Guardia Civica di Bologna (1848): original version of the March for the Sultan (N. 4).
Appendix III. Four earlier versions of La corona d'Italia (N. 5).

A. Fanfare for piano, 2 hands (16 June 1858).

B. Fanfare (Transcription) for piano, 2 hands
C. Petite Fanfare à quatre mains [I] (Transcription) for piano, 4 hands (score format)
D. Petite Fanfare à quatre mains [II] (Transcription) for piano, 4 hands (facing pages)

Performing editions in Bärenreiter Urtext series:
Il barbiere di Siviglia, piano-vocal score BA10506b
Andante, e Tema con Variazioni (Fl, Cl, Horn, Bsn) BA 10542
Duetto per Violoncello e Contrabbasso BA 10544
Andantino et Allegro brillante pour Harpe BA 10541

In progress:

La cambiale di matrimonio, edited by Alexandra Amati-Camperi.

Le comte Ory, edited by Damien Colas.

Maometto II, edited by Hans Schellevis.

Messa di Gloria, edited by Martina Grempler.

Moïse, edited by Charles S. Brauner.

Piano music from Péchés de vieillesse, edited by Flavio Ponzi.

Sigismondo, edited by Domingos Mascarenhas.

Vocal music, edited by Patricia B. Brauner and Philip Gossett.

Other publications:

Full scores:

Rossini, Zelmira, edited by Helen Greenwald and Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell (Edizione critica, Series I vol. 33, Pesaro 2005)

Verdi, Macbeth (1847 [appendix], 1865 [principal version]), edited by David Lawton (Works, Series I vol. 10, Chicago, 2005)

Vocal scores:

Rossini, Armida (Milan, 2009)

Rossini, Otello (Milan, 2008)

Verdi, Macbeth (Milan, 2007)

Rossini, Ermione (Milan, 2006)

Rossini, Il viaggio a Reims (Milan, 2006)

Visiting scholars at the Department of Music,
the University of Chicago

Fabrizio Della Seta (spring 2009) Professor in the School of Paleography and Musical Philology, University of Pavia, Italy

Della Seta earned his undergraduate degree in 1975 from Rome's University “La Sapienza,” and in 1977 he received a Diploma in Composition. From 1976 to 1988 he taught music history in Italian conservatories, from 1988 to 2000 he was associate professor in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Siena. In 2000 he became professor in the School of Paleography and Musical Philology of Cremona of the University of Pavia. Co-director of the critical edition of the works of Vincenzo Bellini (Milano, Ricordi), he also collaborates in the editorial activity of the Istituto nazionale di studi verdiani of Parma. He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Academia Europaea.

Select Bibliography:

Editions:
1. Giuseppe Verdi, La traviata, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, Milano, Ricordi 1997 (The Works of / Le opere di Giuseppe Verdi, s. I, vol. 19).
2. Giuseppe Verdi, La traviata. Schizzi, Introduzione, facsimile, trascrizione e commento (Parma, Comitato Nazionale per le celebrazioni verdiane 2001, Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, 2000).
3. Gioachino Rossini, Adina, Pesaro, Fondazione Rossini, 2000 (Edizione critica delle opere di Gioachino Rossini, Sezione I, vol. 25).
4. Vincenzo Bellini, I Puritani, Milano, Ricordi (Edizione critica delle opere di Vincenzo Bellini, vol. 10) (in preparation).

Books:
1. Italia e Francia nell’Ottocento (Storia della musica a cura della Società italiana di musicologia [nuova edizione], vol. 9), Torino, EDT 1993, 1995).
2. Beethoven: Sinfonia Eroica. Una guida, Roma, Carocci, 2004.
3. « ... non senza pazzia». Prospettive sul teatro musicale, Roma, Carocci, 2008.

Read Della Seta's complete biography and bibliography at the University of Pavia.

Francesco Izzo (winter-spring 2009) Lecturer in Music, University of Southampton, England.

Francesco Izzo earned undergraduate degrees in piano and music history in Italy and the M.A. and Ph.D. in historical musicology at New York University. He specializes in opera and song in nineteenth-century Italy, France, and North America, and his interests include music and politics, vocal performance practice, cultural transfer, and textual criticism. He is particularly interested in the study and performance of neglected drawing-room songs from Risorgimento Italy and Victorian England. His current projects include a critical edition of Verdi's Un giorno di regno for the Works of Giuseppe Verdi (published by the University of Chicago Press and Ricordi), a book titled Laughter and Revolutions, which explores opera buffa in Italy during the 1830s and 40s, and a study of the transfer of French opéra comique to the Italian stage.

Read Francesco Izzo's complete biography and bibliography at the University of Southampton.

Helen Greenwald (winter-spring 2008), a musicologist, cellist, and translator, teaches music history and musicology at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. B.S., M.A., Hofstra University; M.Phil, Ph.D., provost’s scholar, City University of New York; Certificate with honors in German, University of Vienna. Cello studies with David Wells, George Ricci.

Her work has appeared in such journals as 19th-Century Music, Acta Musicologica, Music & Letters, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Current Musicology, the Mozart-Jahrbuch, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, the Music Library Association’s Notes, Studi musicali toscani, Newsletter of the Résource Internationale d’Iconographie Musicale, and Cambridge Opera Journal. Greenwald has presented papers in the international forum, including the 1991 International Mozart Congress (Salzburg), the 2001 Verdi Congress (Parma), the Royal Music Association, the British Society for Music Analysis, the biannual British 19th-Century Music Conference, the Salzburg Symposium, the American Musicological Society, the Society for Music Theory, the New England Conference of Music Theorists, the Music Theory Society of New York State, and the Modern Language Association. She is co-editor of the critical edition of Rossini's Zelmira, published at the end of 2005 by Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi. Most recently, Greenwald was contributing curator and consultant to the international exhibition "La Scena di Puccini", shown September 2003–February 2004 at the Fondazione Ragghianti in Lucca, Italy. Greenwald also speaks and writes regularly for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New York Opera. Her principal areas of research include vocal music of the 18th-21st centuries.

She is currently preparing the critical edition of Verdi's Attila.

Read a profile of Helen Greenwald at NEC Today.

Stefano Castelvecchi (spring quarter 2007) teaches at the University of Cambridge (Faculty of Music and St. John's College). He studied Humanities at the University of Rome and Composition at the Conservatory of Rome, and he holds a Ph. D. in Musicology from the University of Chicago. Before Cambridge, he taught at Vassar College.

Castelvecchi has published critical editions of works by Rossini and Verdi and various articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian opera.

In 2004 he joined the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and more recently was elected to the Council of the American Musicological Society.

Honors include the Stuart M. Tave Teaching Fellowship from the University of Chicago, two awards from the American Musicological Society, and a Research Leave Grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Board.

PUBLICATIONS

Critical Editions:
Cantata per l'Imperatore Francesco I d'Austria, in Edizione critica delle opere di Gioachino Rossini (Pesaro: Fondazione Rossini, 1999)
Alzira, in The Works of / Le Opere di Giuseppe Verdi, vol. I/8 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press / Milan: Ricordi, 1994), with the collaboration of Jonathan Cheskin

Articles and shorter papers:
"Commentary: Was Verdi a 'Revolutionary'?" Journal of Interdisciplinary History 36.4 (2006) 615-620
"Verdi per la storia d'Italia", in Verdi 2001, ed. by Fabrizio della Seta et al. (Florence: Olschki, 2003)
"Directions in Musicology: Opening Statement," in Musicology and Sister Disciplines: Past, Present and Future, ed. David Greer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
"Sentimental and Anti-Sentimental in Le nozze di Figaro," Journal of the American Musicological Society 53/1 (Spring 2000)
"The 'Textualisation' of Opera," in Performing Verdi, ed. Roger Parker and Alison Latham (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
"L'opera come drame: Il disertore," in Giovanni Simone Mayr: L'opera teatrale e la musica sacra, ed. Francesco Bellotto (Bergamo: Comune, 1997), pp. 37-49
"From Nina to Nina: Psychodrama, Absorption and Sentiment in the 1780s," Cambridge Opera Journal 8,2 (July 1996), pp. 91-112
"Sullo statuto del testo verbale nell'opera," in Gioachino Rossini 1792-1992: Il testo e la scena, ed. Paolo Fabbri (Pesaro: Fondazione Rossini, 1994), pp. 309-14
"Walter Scott, Rossini e la couleur ossianique: Il contesto culturale della Donna del lago," Bollettino del Centro rossiniano di studi (1993), pp. 57-71
"Alcune considerazioni sulla struttura drammaturgico-musicale della farsa," in I vicini di Mozart. II. La farsa musicale veneziana (1750-1810), ed. David Bryant (Florence: Olschki, 1989), pp. 625-31
"Le Rossiniane di Mauro Giuliani," Bollettino del Centro rossiniano di studi (1986), pp. 33-72

Alberto Rizzuti (Fall Quarter 2006)

RIZZUTI earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2001 with the dissertation "Music for a Risorgimento Myth: Joan of Arc 1789–1849," written under the guidance of Philip Gossett. He has served as a Researcher at the University of Udine (1994–2000) and is now active as an Associate Professor at the University of Turin.

Publications:
"Sognatori, utopisti e disertori nei Lieder militari di Gustav Mahler" (Firenze, De Sono - Passigli, 1990).
"Fenomeni del baraccone. Il Guarany di Antonio Carlos Gomes fra donne, cavallier, armi ed orrori" (Torino, De Sono - Paravia, 1997).
"A salti e lanci. Il dibattito sul Volkslied nell'epoca dello Sturm und Drang," a cura di Clelia Parvopassu e Alberto Rizzuti, (Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 1997)
"Viganò's 'Giovanna D'arco' and Manzoni's 'March 1821' in the Storm of 1821 Italy," Music and Letters 86.2 (2005) 186-201.

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