Elisabetta Pasquini

Elisabetta Pasquini is full professor at Bologna University, where she teaches History of Music: Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries, as well as History of Instruments and the Orchestra. She also coordinates the first cycle/bachelor degree course in Drama, Art and Music Studies. She has written about the “Esemplare, o sia Saggio fondamentale pratico di contrappunto”: padre Martini teorico e didatta della musica (Florence, Olschki, 2004) and about the life and works of Giambattista Martini (Palermo, L’Epos, 2007). For the publisher UtOrpheus of Bologna she co-directs, along with Francesco Lora, the critical edition series «Tesori musicali emiliani», where she has published an oratorio by Giovanni Battista Bassani (Giona; 2009) and the first two volumes of the Integrale della musica sacra (Complete Sacred Music) by Domenico Gabrielli (2012 and 2019). As a philologist, she also published the critical edition of Francesca da Rimini by Saverio Mercadante (Bologna, UtOrpheus, 2015), which was staged in 2016 as part of the XLII Festival della Valle d’Itria and in 2019 as part of the Belcanto Opera Festival in Tokyo. Go to the Curriculum vitae