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Due sonate per violoncello di Giovanni Bononcini in un manoscritto napoletano
| Autore | Guido Olivieri |
| Curatela | Marc Vanscheeuwijck |
| Collana | Studi e Saggi |
| N. | 31 |
| Dimensioni | 17×24, pp. XIX+372 |
| Anno | 2020 |
| ISBN | 9788855430272 |
Montecassino MS 2-D-13 is a very large miscellaneous manuscript consisting of 136 folios; it includes two «Sinfonie per violoncello del Sig.r Giovanni Bononcini». The manuscript bears the date 1699 on both the title page and on the last folio. Although it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the history and provenance of this manuscript, some internal indications seem to point almost certainly toward Neapolitan origins. The existence of Bononcini’s music in a Neapolitan manuscript is in itself very significant. We have no evidence of Bononcini’s presence in Naples, although his opera Il Trionfo di Camilla was staged in Naples in 1696–97, when Duke Luis Francisco de la Cerda became the new Viceroy. On these premises, we can hypothesize that these two sonatas were written in Naples around those years, and most likely before Bononcini’s move to Vienna in 1698.
Guido Olivieri teaches Musicology at The University of Texas at Austin, where he also directs the Early Music Ensemble «Austinato». Olivieri has co-authored with Marc Vanscheeuwijck the volume Arcomelo 2013. Studi in occasione del terzo centenario della nascita di Arcangelo Corelli (LIM, 2015), and with Enrico Gatti the critical edition of A. Corelli Le sonate da camera di Assisi (LIM, 2015). He has published articles and reviews in collective volumes (Musical Improvisation in the Baroque Era, Brepols, 2019; Sleuthing the Muses, Pendragon Press, 2013; Performance Practice: Issues and Approaches, Steglein, 2009) and scholarly journals (Studi Musicali, Nuova Rivista Musicale italiana, Analecta Musicologica, Notes, Pergolesi Studies, Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis), and contributed to The New Grove Dictionary of Music, the MGG, and the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. In his publications he has examined the influence of social, cultural, and political contexts on the circulation of music and musicians in eighteenth-century Europe. His groundbreaking research, conducted on new archival sources, focuses on the developments of the string sonata in eighteenth-century Naples, and has significantly contributed to the revival of interest on Neapolitan instrumental music.<olivieri@austin.utexas.edu>