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"The most prolific and perhaps the most imaginative of the Italian masters, the author of a hundred operas, who was, in the early stages of his career, Rossini's competitor; the tireless emulator of Bellini and Donizetti, Verdi's forerunner; the versatile musician, who underwent the four musical transformations of his century while always preserving his enviable originality, died in Pescia on the 6th of this month,  ...   

For numerous artists and intellectuals from the German-speaking world, Italy once again became a place of longing and refuge in the post-war period. This also applies to Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970), who in 1957 was the first composer to receive a scholarship at the reopened German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome. Further stay in Rome would profoundly influence Zimmermann on both a biographical and artistic level. The  ...   

Databases, monographs, collected volumes, journal articles and reviews on a wide range of historical and musicological topics from the Middle Ages to the recent past – all this and more is freely available here.
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Are you doing research on topics of Italian history or music history? Are you concerned with the history of German-Italian relations in transregional or transnational contexts? Then send us your article for publication in our journal "Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken". It is published once a year and epoch-spanning, covering the period from the early Middle Ages to the present.  ...