Renato Meucci

Renato Meucci (* 1958 ) is an Italian musician, musicologist and university professor.

Meucci studied guitar and horn at the Conservatories of Rome and Milan and classical philology at La Sapienza University in Rome . After working as a horn player in orchestras for a decade, he switched to musicology.

Meucci holds lectures on the history of musical instruments as a visiting professor - from 1994 to 2000 at the University of Parma , since 2001 at the Music Department of the University of Milan . He is also a university professor of music history , from 1994 to 2000 at the Conservatorio Francesco Morlacchi in Perugia and since 2001 at the Conservatorio Guido Cantelli in Novara , where he also became dean in 2011 .

He researches and publishes on the topics of musical instruments , archeology , iconography , music ethnology , orchestration and music production in the 19th century.

From 1994 to 2007 Meucci was President of the Fondazione Italiana per la Musica Antica .

Fonts (selection)

• 2008: Strumentaio. Il costruttore di strumenti musicali nella tradizione occidentale. Marsilio, ISBN 978-88-317-9590-6 .

Awards

• 2003: Christopher Monk Award from the Historic Brass Society for his exceptional achievements in the field of brass instrument research
• 2012: Curt Sachs Award from the American Music Instrument Society

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} The Curt Sachs Award 2012. In: amis.org. Retrieved September 17, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Renato Meucci. In: consno.it. Retrieved September 17, 2018 (Italian). 
3. ^ ^{A b} Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriebsges.mbH (Hrsg.): Scientific yearbook of the Tiroler Landesmuseen . 2010, ISSN  0379-0231 , p. 469 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed September 17, 2018]).
4. ^ Renato Meucci. In: marsilioeditori.it. Retrieved September 17, 2018 (Italian).