Claudio Sartori

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Claudio Sartori

Claudio Sartori (born April 1, 1913 in Brescia ; died March 11, 1994 in Milan ) was an Italian musicologist , bibliographer and librettologist .

life and work

Sartori studied piano and literature and received a doctorate in music history . He found his first job in 1939 as a librarian at a school in Bologna . There his interest in musical sources developed and he published a number of music-historical contributions. During the Second World War he joined the Catholic wing of the Italian freedom movement and from March 1944, together with Teresio Olivelli and Carlo Bianchi, published the resistance magazine Il Ribelle (The Rebel), the first edition of which was 15,000 and which was distributed in numerous cities in Northern Italy. Sartori was arrested by the SS and only released in 1945.

In the first post-war years he devoted himself to journalism and music criticism. Sartori wrote for the daily newspaper Il Popolo di Milano and the trade journal Rivista Musicale Italiana . In 1947, he was appointed to the library of the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan and he finally turned to the historical recording and research of the original sources. Sartori saw inventory and cataloging as the primary task of historical musicology . Within a few years he was able to build up a network of colleagues and correspondents that not only extended across Italy, but also included partners in important institutions across Europe and North America. It was only thanks to this support that he was able to collect impressive amounts of data from all the well-known Italian libraries and collections. Sartori went on site again and again, so he and his colleague Mariangela Donà inventoried the printed holdings of the castle in Castell'Arquato for RISM .

In 1959 Sartori was appointed to the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense , where a few years later, together with Mariangela Donà, he founded the Ufficio Ricerca Fondi Musicali (URFM), the research office for musical sources . He remained its director until his retirement and developed three multi-volume works of the highest scientific standards: in 1968 he completed the Bibliografia della musica strumentale italiana stampata fino al 1700 (bibliography of Italian instrumental music in prints before 1700) and published in 1977, together with his colleagues Alfred Einstein and François Lesure , the new bird , the expanded and revised Bibliografia della musica italiana vocale pubblicata dal 1500 al 1700 by the musicologist Emil Vogel , who worked in Braunschweig , which was first published in 1892.

In the last decades of his life he was particularly passionate about Italian libretti from the 17th and 18th centuries. For his seven-volume main work I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800 , he collected over 26,000 entries and thus almost completely covered the textual bases of Italian opera. The five bibliographical volumes and the first index volume were published during his lifetime. Satori's work was highly praised by colleagues and critics, referred to as Catalogo Sartori and a standard work in musicology. He died while working on the second volume of the index, the last volume of the work.

As early as 1955, Sartori was accepted into the Executive Committee of the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML). He was also a member of a number of other professional associations and was visiting professor at the University at Buffalo in 1965 and at UCLA in Los Angeles in 1969 . During his lifetime, between 1986 and 1988, he handed over his extensive private library to the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi , and the Don Juan Archive Vienna holds the rights to his main work I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800 , which is currently creating a digital version.

Important publications

Bibliographies

  • Bibliografia delle opere musicali stampate da Ottaviano Petrucci , Firenze: Olschki, 1948. ISBN 9788822220417
  • Bibliografia della musica strumentale italiana stampata fino al 1700 , Firenze: Olschki, 1952 and 1968 (2 volumes)
  • Bibliografia della musica italiana vocale pubblicata dal 1500 al 1700 , together with Emil Vogel , Alfred Einstein and François Lesure , Pomezia: Staderini Minkoff 1977. (3 volumes)

Catalogs

  • La Cappella musicale del Duomo di Milano. Catalogo delle musiche dell'archivio , Milano: Ven. Fabbrica del Duomo, 1957
  • Assisi. La Cappella della Basilica di s. Francesco. Catalogo del fondo musicale della Biblioteca Comunale di Assisi. Milano: Istituto Editoriale Italiano, 1962
  • Catalogo del fondo Musicale di Ostiglia, biblioteca Dell'Opera Pia Greggiati , Milano, 1983
  • Ostiglia. Biblioteca dell'Opera Pia Greggiati. Catalogo del fondo musicale , Vol. I: Le edizioni. Milano: Nuovo Istituto Editoriale Italiano, 1983
  • I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800. Catalogo analitico con 16 indici , Cuneo: Bertola & Locatelli Editori, 1990–1994 (7 volumes)

reference books

  • (Ed.): Dizionario degli editori musicali italiani (tipografi, incisori, librai-editori) , Firenze: Olschki, 1958 (Biblioteca di bibliografia italiana, 32)
  • (Ed.): Dizionario Ricordi della musica e di musicisti , Milano: Ricordi , 1959
  • (Ed.): Enciclopedia della musica , Milano: Ricordi 1963 (Volume 1), 1964 (Volume 2 to 4)

Further publications

Translations

  • Paolo Landormy: Brahms , Milano: Genio, 1946
  • E. Robert Schmitz : Il pianoforte di Claude Debussy , Milano: Aldo Martello Editore, 1952

Memorial

  • Mariangela Donà, François Lesure (eds.): Scritti in memoria di Claudio Sartori , Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1994

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: List of RISM library seals, the seal for his private library is given there: I-Msartori = Milan, Biblioteca privata Claudio Sartori (In: I-Mc)
  2. ^ Digitization of the Don Juan Archive Vienna , accessed on April 12, 2015

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personal data
SURNAME Sartori, Claudio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian musicologist, bibliographer and librettologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Brescia
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1994
Place of death Milan