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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 by the end of January 2025 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  ...   


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Sicilian-born composer Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) worked mainly in Rome and Naples, with great success. His music was also appreciated in other parts of Italy, and Scarlatti's varied and extensive oeuvre had a formative influence on the country’s musical culture around the year 1700. This volume presents Scarlatti's contribution to compositional genres relevant to his time using a variety of methodological approaches.  ...   


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