Angelo Pompilio (Matera, 1955) is full professor in Modern Music
History in the Department of Cultural Heritage, in Ravenna. He completed his music education at
the Conservatory of Matera in 1978 and graduated in Musicology at
the University of Bologna in 1980 with a thesis on Pomponio Nenna's
four voices madrigals (1613). Teacher of Music History at Pesaro
Conservatory from 1981 to 1983, he was then appointed researcher in
Music History at DAMS (University of Bologna), where he has worked
up to 1993. He was appointed associate professor at the Magistero
Faculty of the University of Messina (1993-93). He has been working
at the Faculty of Humanities, then Faculty of Preservation of the
Cultural Heritage, since 1994. From 2001 to 2007 he was the head of
the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali “G. Verdi” in Ravenna,
from 2007 to 2015 he was the director of the Department of
Cultural heritage at the University of Bologna, in Ravenna,
from 2012 to 2015 he was the vice president of the School of
Letters and Cultural heritage in Ravenna.
His research activity applies to three main fields: historiographic
research (15th-16th centuries madrigal, opera), bibliographic
research on printed music editions (16th and 19th century Italian
editions and Italian opera librettos), computer technology applied
to musical heritage (databases for music repertories and music
documentation).
In the first research field he has studied the Italian madrigal
from Neapolitan area and southern Italy and edited some critical
editions of madrigals' books. He has also written papers on
Neapolitan and Italian 15th-16th centuries music publishing, on
solo voice collections edited in the early 17th century, on
music production and consumption in the Kingdom of Naples in
15th-16th centuries, on 16th-17th centuries Italian secular music,
on 17th-18th centuries Venetian librettos.
The bibliographic research has concerned the 16th-17th and 19th
centuries Italian music editions, bibliographic repertories for
16th-17th centuries Italian secular music and poetry books,
composers' works lists and music libraries catalogues. In recent
years he has worked on 17th-20th centuries librettos, particularly
on 17th-18th centuries Venetian librettos, and on librettos digital
archives.
Since two decades Angelo Pompilio is involved in computer
technology applied to musical heritage, especially to conception
and development of digital systems aimed to collect and file music
documentation.
On behalf of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani in Parma
(1990-2000) he has attended to the conception and realization of
digital archives for records collection (1997), Verdi's operas
visual documentation (1998) and Verdi's letters (2000). On behalf
of “I Teatri” Association in Reggio Emilia he has implemented the
TECA software (1998), for audiovisual documentation, and CRONOLOGIA
software (1999), for stage chronology. On behalf of the Istituto di
studi rinascimentali in Ferrara he has developed a database
containing the bibliography of music editions printed from 1570 and
1630 (including about 5.000 items). Since more than twenty years he
has attended to the “Repertorio della poesia italiana in musica,
1500-1700” (http://repim.muspe.unibo.it/), an “incipitario” of
Italian secular music poetry which contains analytical description
of the whole 16th-17th centuries secular music production and of
its literary sources. From 2001 to 2003 he has attended, with
Lorenzo Bianconi, to the RADAMES project (Repertoriazione e
Archiviazione di Documenti Attinenti al Melodramma E allo
Spettacolo: http://radames.muspe.unibo.it). Since 2004 he has
devoted himself to “Corago” project, the first complete achievement
of RADAMES experimental model, which is aimed to carry out a
repertory of Italian opera production, a stage chronology and a
digital archive of librettos (
http://corago.unibo.it). Within
this project, he has coordinated librettos digitalization and
cataloguing initiatives in the Biblioteca Estense Universitaria in
Modena, in the Museo del disco d'epoca in Sogliano al Rubicone, in
the library of the Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo, in the
Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna and in the Museo Internazionale
e Biblioteca della Musica in Bologna.
