Guido Olivieri

Guido Olivieri is a musicologist who teaches at The University of Texas at Austin, where he also directs the Early Music Ensemble “Austinato.” He has co-edited with M. Vanscheeuwijck the volume Arcomelo 2013. Studi in occasione del terzo centenario della nascita di Arcangelo Corelli (LIM, 2015). His groundbreaking research – published since 1996 in collective volumes and academic journals, such as Eighteenth-Century Music, Studi musicali, Analecta Musicologica, Nuova rivista musicale italiana, Fonti musicali italiane, and Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis – has decisively promoted the revival of interest on Neapolitan instrumental music.

Olivieri has contributed entries to The New Grove Dictionary of Music, the MGG, and the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani and has given lectures and workshops at institutions and academic meetings around the world. In Spring 2018, he was the Robert M. Trotter Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of Oregon and in 2019-21 has been president of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music.

Olivieri has collaborated to several CD projects with international ensembles specialized in early music and has published critical editions of newly discovered repertory, including manuscript violin sonatas by A. Corelli (Le sonate da camera di Assisi, LIM 2015, with E. Gatti), two unknown cello sonatas by G. Bononcini (Società Editrice di Musicologia, 2019),and cello methods and sonatas by forgotten Neapolitan musicians (with G. Barbati). His current projects include the critical edition of D. Cimarosa’s masterwork Il matrimonio segreto (Bärenreiter; with F. Gon) and the first book on instrumental music in early 18^th-century Naples (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).