Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute
Founded by Antonio Fanna and Angelo Ephrikian in 1947 and becoming part of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in 1978, the Institute is responsible for the preservation and publication of Red Priest’s music in modern editions. All instrumental music (approximately 550 titles) and sacred and secular vocal music (87 works) have been published with the publisher Ricordi. A critical edition of the Opere teatrali is currently in preparation, consisting of operas, serenades, oratorios, and arias.
The Institute organises annual meetings on the performance practice of Antonio Vivaldi’s compositions, dedicated to young singers and musicians: Accademia Vivaldi. The students selected through a call for applications have the opportunity not only to refine their interpretation but also to explore the various musicological aspects of the compositions under the guidance of musicologists and Vivaldi scholars. Between the 1970s and 1980s, the Institute curated seven editions of the Vivaldi Festival in collaboration with the Teatro La Fenice. Since 1990, it has organised the Premio Internazionale del Disco Antonio Vivaldi per la musica antica italiana (‘Antonio Vivaldi International Record Prize for Italian Early Music’) for twelve consecutive years. The Institute also curated the photographic exhibition Antonio Vivaldi e il suo tempo, which was displayed in several Italian cities and in numerous countries across Europe and America.
The Institute edits a series of publications. The series Quaderni vivaldiani (Olschki publisher) compiles the proceedings of the study conferences organised since 1978, as well as extensive monographic essays on the life and work of Antonio Vivaldi. In collaboration with the publisher S.P.E.S., it published a series of Opere incomplete, featuring Vivaldi’s music that has come down to us in fragmentary form, and a series titled Vivaldiana, consisting of facsimiles. In collaboration with the University of Venice, the Drammaturgia musicale veneta series was published in 1982, offering a facsimile edition on the evolution of melodrama in Venice from 1640 to 1800. Since 1980, it has published an annual journal, Studi vivaldiani, which is distributed worldwide.
Since 1997, the Institute has been directed by Francesco Fanna.
Accademia Vivaldi 2023 © Fondazione Giorgio Cini
The Institute preserves copies of all music composed by Antonio Vivaldi (including manuscripts and period prints), as well as modern editions of the same, monographic essays, and extensive audio and video documentation, all of which are available to scholars for consultation.
STUDI VIVALDIANI
In addition to specific essays on musical, cultural, and socio-historical production, the annual journal features two regular columns: Michael Talbot’s Miscellanea, which primarily includes reports on new Vivaldi discoveries, recent publications, and notable Vivaldi performances, and Roger-Claude Travers’ Discographie vivaldienne, which lists and comments on the annual release of recordings of the renowned composer’s music.
