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Comparative Perspectives on Genetic Criticism in Music The IMS Study Group Comparative Perspectives on Genetic Criticism, founded in 2025, invites proposals for its first international conference at the DHI Rome. The conference seeks to take stock of current research questions, methodological approaches, and terminological frameworks in genetic criticism and sketch studies in music, while explicitly  ...   


Genoa's participation in the Otranto crusade against the Turks provides an opportunity to reveal a broader picture of the connections between local politics, international strategies and commercial interests in the Mediterranean at the end of the 15th century. By means of an extensive source corpus, the volume sheds light on the entanglements of informal diplomacy, private interests, emotions, espionage networks, Italian  ...   


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Domenico Cimarosa, Le trame deluse (1786)

Domenico Cimarosa's musical comedy "Le trame deluse", first performed in Naples in 1786, enjoyed great success throughout Europe and was translated into numerous languages. No less a figure than Johann Wolfgang von Goethe adapted the opera in order to stage it at Weimar. Rossini regarded it as more significant than "Il matrimonio segreto", Cimarosa's most famous work. Set in 18th-century Naples, the  ...   


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QFIAB 105 (2025)

The latest volume 105 of our journal "Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken" is now published and fully available in Open Access: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/qfiab/html#latestIssue.   


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