Pierluigi Petrobelli- Curriculum Vitae#
Born Padua, 18 October 1932
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC CAREER
- March 1957 “Laurea in Lettere”, University of Rome; dissertation on Giuseppe Tartini
- 1959-1961 Graduate study in the Department of Music, Princeton University, with Oliver Strunk, Arthur Mendel, Lewis Lockwood, Milton Babbitt
- Summer 1960 Musicology courses, Harvard Summer School, under W. G. Waite
- June 1961 M. F. A. in Music, Princeton University
- 1962-1963 Graduate study, Department of Music, University of California at Berkeley
- 1964-1969 Librarian - Archivist, Istituto di Studi Verdiani, Parma
- 1968-1969 Teaching assistant, Department of High Education, University of Parma
- 1970-1972 Associate Professor of Music History, Department of High Education, University of Parma, Cremona ext.
- 1970-1973 Librarian and Teacher of Music History, “G. Rossini” Conservatory, Pesaro
- 1973 “Libera docenza” in Music History for all Italian Universities
- 1973-1977 Lecturer in Music, Faculty of Music, University of London King’s College
- 1978-1980 Reader in Musicology, University of London
- 1980- Director, Istituto di Studi Verdiani (after 1989: Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani), Parma
- 1981-1983 Professor of Music History, Facoltà di Lettere, University of Perugia
- 1983-2005 Professor of Music History, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
- 1988 Chair of Italian Culture, University of California at Berkeley
- 1989 - Spring Seminar for the “Diplome d’études approfondis (DEA)” in the “Musique et Musicologie” program, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 1996 Lauro De Bosis Lecturer in the History of Italian Civilization, Harvard University
- 1997 Seminar for the “Diplome d’études approfondis (DEA) in the “Musique et Musicologie” program, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
- 1959 Fulbright fellow (tuition and maintenance) for study at Princeton University
- 1960 John H.Bonsall Fellowship of Princeton University, “to an outstanding student in music”
- 1960-1961 Scholarship from the America-Italy Society of New York
- 1962-1963 American-Italian Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
- 1968-1971 editor of Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, Firenze, Leo S:Olschki
- 1981- editor of Studi verdiani Parma, Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani
- 1987- member of the editorial board of The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, Chicago and Milan, University of Chicago Press and Ricordi
- 1988- coordinating editor and member of the editorial board of Edizione critica dell’epistolario verdiano, Parma, Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdini
MEMBERSHIPS AND HONOURS
- 1973- member of the Advisory Committee (since 1990: of the Commission Mixte) of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)
- 1988-2007- member of the Wissenschaftliches Beirat für das Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheather der Universität Bayreuth
- 1989- Corresponding member of the American Musicological Society
- 1991- member of the Zentralinstitut fur Mozartsforschung (since 2005: Akademie für Mozartforschung), Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzburg
- 1992 member of the Advisory Board, Fondazione “W. A. Mozart De Pizzini von Hochenbruun”, Ala (Trento)
- 1992 member of the Academia Europaea
- 1994 member of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana
- 1996 “Visitante distinguido”, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
- 1997- Foreign Honorary Member, Royal Musical Association
- 1999- member of the External Advisory Panel, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
- 1999- “Cavaliere di Verdi” by the “Club dei 27” in Parma
- 1999- Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International Foundation
- 2000- Corresponding member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- 2003- Honorary citizenship, Fusignano (Ravenna), Corelli’s birthplace
- 2005- National Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- 2009- Honorary Member, International Musicological Society
PUBLICATIONS IN HIS HONOUR
- Verdi Studien Pierluigi Petrobelli zum 60. Geburtstag, Sieghart Döhring - Wolfgnang Osthoff eds., unter Mitarbeit von Arnlod Jacobshagen, München, G.Ricordi & Co. 2000, pp. 300.
- Pensieri per un Maestro – Studi in onore di Pierluigi Petrobelli,, Stefano La Via – Roger Parker eds., Torino, EDT, 2002, pp. XII + 416.