Zicari Massimo
Music history, Introduction to music history
Massimo Zicari is Deputy Head of Research at the University of Music (Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana) in Lugano, where he also teaches music history since 2005.
In 2009 he was visiting Fellow at the Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, for a project concerning the reception of Verdi’s Operas in London. His studies focus mainly on opera reception and his most recent publications in this domain include: _Verdi in Victorian London_. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016; _“_La prima recezione di Giuseppe Verdi a Londra: Henry Fothergill Chorley e l’Athenaeum” (_Schweizer Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft,_ 2011; “Critica musicale e opera italiana a Londra: George Bernard Shaw”, (_Musica e Storia_, 2011); “Nothing but the Commonest Tunes: The Early Reception of Verdi’s Operas in London, 1845-1848” (_Dissonanz,_ 2011); _The Land of Song, La terra del Belcanto sulla stampa londinese nel decennio 1890 - 1900_ (Peter Lang, 2008).
His research areas include also the historically informed performance practice of Italian opera such as acoustics and performance science (“’Ah! non credea mirarti’ nelle fonti discografiche di primo Novecento: Adelina Patti e Luisa Tetrazzini,” _Schweizer Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft,_ 34/35 (2014/2015), pp.193-222; “Expressive Tempo Modifications in Adelina Patti’s Recordings,” _Empirical Musicology Review_ Vol. 12, n. 1-2 (2017)) and acoustics (Zicari, M., MacRitchie, J. et al. “Trumpet mouthpiece manufacturing and tone quality”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134 (5), November 2013, p. 3872–3886). He takes an interest also in the investigation of music teaching and pedagogy.
