Paolo Isotta

Paolo Isotta (born 18 October 1950) is an Italian musicologist and writer.

Paolo Isotta
Born (1950-10-18) 18 October 1950
Napoli, Italy
OccupationMusic journalist and writer
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Naples
Period1974–present
Notable worksIl ventriloquo di Dio
La virtù dell'elefante/ La dotta lira. Ovidio e la musica/ Verdi a Parigi

Life

Isotta graduated from the University of Naples, where he studied classic Letters and law. He also studied piano with Vincenzo Vitale and composition with Renato Parodi and Renato Dionisi.[1] From 1971 to 1994 he was ordinary professor of history of music in the Conservatory of Torin and Naples. in february 2019 he was decretated Professor Emeritus

He was the musical critic for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera from 1980 to 2015 and for other journals such as Il Giornale.

In 2013 he published a critical article against Daniel Harding and, indirectly, Claudio Abbado, following which Stéphane Lissner, La Scala's director, declared him "non-pleasant person".[2]

He wrote several books of musical criticism, among these one on the influence of the music in the Works of Thomas Mann and one which is the first ever wrote about the influence of the poetry of Ovid on music from XV to XXI century.

Decorations and awards
  • 2006: Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art[3]
  • 2017: Isaiah Berlin Prize

Works
  • Antonio Caldara: problemi e prospettive (1971)
  • I diamanti della corona. Grammatica del Rossini napoletano (1974)
  • I sentieri della musica (1978)
  • Dixit Dominus Domino meo. Struttura e semantica in Haendel e Vivaldi (1980)
  • Il ventriloquo di Dio: Thomas Mann e la musica nell'opera letteraria (1983)
  • Le ali di Wieland (1984)
  • Per una lettura de "Il Turco in Italia", (1985)
  • Protagonisti della musica (1988)
  • Victor de Sabata: un compositore (1992)
  • Omaggio a Renata Tebaldi (2002)
  • La virtù dell'elefante (Marsilio, 2014)
  • Altri canti di Marte (Marsilio, 2015)
  • La bellezza nell'estetica dei 'Meistersinger' di Richard Wagner (2016)
  • Paisiello e il mito di Fedra (2016)
  • Othello: Shakespeare, Napoli, Rossini (2016)
  • Jérusalem: Verdi et la persécution de l'honneur (Liège, 2017)
  • Il canto degli animali. I nostri fratelli e i loro sentimenti in musica e in poesia (Marsilio, 2017)
  • De Parthenopes musices disciplina. L'educazione musicale a Napoli dal Medio Evo ai giorni nostri (Napoli, 2018)
  • "Non si pasce di cibo mortale chi si pasce di cibo celeste". Il convito e la fame tra mito, musica, poesia e teatro napoletano (Ariano Irpino, 2018)
  • La dotta lira. Ovidio e la musica (Marsilio, 2018)
  • La tradizione napoletana dei Responsori per la Settimana Santa. Tenebra della Passione e luce di Leonardo Leo, "Napoli Nobilissima", 2018
  • Rossini 1868-2018. Schizzo per un ritratto, Roma, 2018
  • La rivoluzione estetica del "Rigoletto", Roma 2019
osmo, musica, uomo nell'antichità e Dante, Ariano Irpito, Edizioni Biogem, 2019
  • 'Verdi a Parigi', Venezia, Marsilio, 2020
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References
  1. Doremi, Daniela (November 2, 2015). "Paolo Isotta". Catalogo dei viventi 2015 – Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  2. Davies, Lizzy (February 3, 2013). "La Scala blacklists veteran music critic". The Guardian. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  3. "Medaglia d'oro ai benemeriti della cultura e dell'arte - Isotta Prof. Paolo". Quirinale.it (in Italian). Retrieved February 6, 2017.

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