Francesco Zimei

^{Francesco Zimei, a musicologist specialized in historical repertoires and in an interdisciplinary approach to their original context, has carried out seminal studies on medieval Italian music, on relationships between text and music, and on reuse strategies in Johann Sebastian Bach’s instrumental works. For some years he has also devoted significant attention to Urban Music, to seventeenth-century sources and to Italian opera, with special regard to the American experience of Lorenzo Da Ponte. Author of over seventy publications including monographs, articles in peer-reviewed periodicals, essays and book chapters, he was founder and chairman of the Istituto Abruzzese di Storia Musicale and of the Centro Studi sull’Ars nova italiana del Trecento as well as a research fellow of Harvard University (Villa I Tatti) and Columbia University (Italian Academy for Advanced Studies). Member of several scientific committees and international research groups, he is musicological advisor to the Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa and editor in chief of three musicological series published by LIM. His musical reconstruction of the Oratorio for the Benefit of the Orphan Asylum (New York 1826) was recently celebrated by an American documentary starring Martin Scorsese.}