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  ...   

Every year, the German Historical Institute in Rome awards several six-week internships to students of history, music history and Digital Humanities mainly of higher semesters, whose studies are focused on the field of German-Italian relations or Italian history.
The application deadline for the period from mid-August to the end of 2026 is 15 March 2026.

Applications are accepted exclusively in  ...   

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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