Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute
The main activity of the Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute is the preparation and publication of modern editions of the music of the Red Priest. All instrumental music (about 550 titles) and sacred and secular vocal music (87 works) has been published with the publisher Ricordi. A critical edition of the Opere teatrali is in preparation, consisting of operas, serenades, oratorios and arias.
The Institute also publishes a series, “Quaderni vivaldiani”, with the publisher Olschki including the proceedings of the study conferences organised since 1978 and extensive monographic essays on the life and work of Antonio Vivaldi. With the publisher S.P.E.S., he published a series of Opere incomplete, music by Vivaldi that has come down to us in fragmentary form -, and one, “Vivaldiana”, of facsimiles. In collaboration with the University of Venice, in 1982 he began the publication of the series “Drammaturgia musicale veneta”, a facsimile edition describing the evolutionary arc of melodrama in Venice from 1640 to 1800.
Since 1980 he has published an annual journal, ‘Studi vivaldiani’, distributed worldwide. Between the 1970s and 1980s, he curated seven editions of the Vivaldi Festival, in collaboration with the Teatro La Fenice, while since 1990 he has organised the ‘Antonio Vivaldi International Record Prize for Italian Early Music’ for 12 consecutive years. He also set up a photographic exhibition, ‘Antonio Vivaldi e il suo tempo’, which was shown in several Italian cities and in many countries in Europe and America.
History
The Antonio Vivaldi Italian Institute, founded by Antonio Fanna and Angelo Ephrikian in 1947 and which became part of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, in in 1978, preserves copies of all the music – manuscripts and prints of the period – composed by Antonio Vivaldi, as well as modern editions of the same, monographic essays and extensive audio and video documentation, available to scholars for consultation.
Research Activities
The research involves the preparation by the Istituto Italiano ‘Antonio Vivaldi’ of a critical edition of all Vivaldi’s instrumental works published in monographic or anthology collections. The critical edition comprises thirteen volumes: twelve for as many published collections with opera numbers (i.e. a single volume for each collection), plus an additional volume for the fourteen compositions published in anthology prints of the time (RV 179, 189, 195, 220, 275, 276, 291, 335, 341, 364 and/or 364a, 456, 513, Anh. 15 and 65?). Where necessary, the critical edition will also include variants (such as different movements of the same composition) from the manuscript tradition.contacts [email protected]
Annual journal of the Giorgio Cini Foundation’s Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute
“Studi Vivaldiani publishes articles not only on Antonio Vivaldi and his musical production but also on the musical, cultural, social and historical context in which the Red Priest lived and worked.
In addition to the essays, there are two regular columns: Michael Talbot’s Miscellanea, mostly containing reports of new Vivaldi discoveries, new publications and noteworthy Vivaldi performances, and Roger-Claude Travers’ Discographie vivaldienne, which lists and comments on the annual offering of recordings of Vivaldi’s music. The Review is available free online at the Giorgio Cini Foundation website.
Direttore
Francesco Fanna
Condirettore
Michael Talbot
Direttore responsabile
Chiara Casarin
Comitato direttivo
Marco Bizzarini (Napoli), Cesare Fertonani (Milano), Giulia Giovani (Siena), Roberta Milanaccio (Manchester), Giada Viviani (Genova),
Consulenti
Fabrizio Ammetto, Alessandro Borin, Paul Everett, Karl Heller, Antonio Moccia, Federico Maria Sardelli, Eleanor Selfridge‐Field, Reinhard Strohm, Colin R. Timms, Roger‐Claude Travers
Segreteria di redazione
Roberta Milanaccio