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Rossini after Rossini: Musical and Social Legacy (1868-1918)
Lucca, Complesso Monumentale di San Micheletto 
19-21 October 2018

Organized by
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca

The influence of Rossini on his contemporaries has been and remains the subject of innumerable essays, conventions and publications. The story of the composer’s long life (1792-1868), initially focused on purely musical connections (Paganini, Giuliani,  Mercadante, Schubert, Donizetti, Bellini, Auber, Meyerbeer, Verdi, Offenbach, Bizet, just to name a few), has been expanded to include literary, philosophical and political dimensions (Stendhal, Balzac, Schopenhauer, Mazzini). Less frequently investigated, however, is Rossini’s legacy as it unfolded during the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s death the present conference focuses on the span of time corresponding more-or-less to the fifty years following 1868, almost to the threshold of the so-called Rossini Renaissance that, beginning in the early 1920s, generated renewed interest into the composer’s output, from the points of view of both performance and philology, and also helped to clarify the ambiguity of Rossini as a man.

Topics of investigation include, but are not limited to, the following: 
• Rossinian influences on operetta in Paris, Vienna, London and Italy; 
• Rossinian influence on subsequent opera composers; 
• The theory and practice of Operatic Singing; 
• Aspects of orchestration and instrumentation; 
• Stylistic and compositional legacy; 
• Treatises and biographical memoires; 
• Literature and poetry; 
• Reception; 
• Rossini and the cinema; 
• Rossini, the vocal chamber music and the popular song; 
• Rossini’s iconography and portraiture; 
• Rossini in politics, society and public opinion.

Scholarly Committee:
• Lorenzo Frassà (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini)
• Federico Gon (Universität Wien) 
• Roberto Illiano (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini)
• Arnold Jacobshagen (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln) 
• Fulvia Morabito (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini)
• Massimiliano Sala (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini)

Keynote Speaker:
• Arnold Jacobshagen (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln)

The official languages of the conference are English, French and Italian.  Papers may also be considered in other European languages. Papers selected at the conference will be published in a miscellaneous volume.
Papers are limited to twenty minutes in length, allowing time for questions and discussion. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words and no more than 200 words of biography. 
All proposals should be submitted by email no later than ***Sunday 29 April 2018*** to <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>. With your proposal please include your name, contact details (postal address, e-mail and telephone number) and (if applicable) your affiliation. The committee will make its final decision on the abstracts by the midst of May 2018, and contributors will be informed immediately thereafter. Further information about the programme, registration, travel and accommodation will be announced after that date. For any additional information, please contact:

Dr. Massimiliano Sala
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