Paologiovanni Maione

Professor of History of Music and History and Aesthetics of Music at the Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella in Naples, he is a member of the scientific committee of the Centro de Estudos Musicais Setecentistas em Portugal “Divino Sospiro” in Lisbon; the Centro interdisciplinare di Cultura italiana (CiCi) at Universität Leipzig; ARPREGO (“Archivio pregoldoniano”) at the University of Santiago de Compostela; and the Fondazione Pergolesi-Spontini in Jesi. He also serves on the committee for the national edition of Domenico Cimarosa’s commedie per musica. From 1998 to 2003, he was part of the editorial board of the Rivista Italiana di Musicologia and from 2004 to 2009 he sat on the board of the Società Italiana di Musicologia as head of the “conferences” section. Since 2020 he has been on the board of AIRDanza, and since 2021 he has been music director of the Museum Complex of Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco in Naples. He is also a member of the scientific committees of the journals Kinetès, Caderno de Queluz, and Sinestesie, as well as of the series Chorégraphie. Ricerche sulla danza (LIM).

He is the author of several volumes, including “Onesto divertimento, ed allegria de’ popoli”. Materiali per una storia dello spettacolo a Napoli nel primo Settecento (Milan, Ricordi, 1996); La cappella musicale del Tesoro di San Gennaro di Napoli tra Sei e Settecento (Naples, Turchini Edizioni, 2008); Francesco Oliva, Lo castiello saccheato. Commeddea. In appendice Francesco Oliva – Pietro Trinchera, L’Emilia. Commedia per musica (Venice, lineadacqua, 2015); Carlo Goldoni, L’impresario delle Smirne (Venice, Marsilio, 2018). He has also edited numerous books, including Domenico Cimarosa: un “napoletano” in Europa (Lucca, LIM, 2004); Storia della musica e dello spettacolo a Napoli. Il Settecento(Naples, Turchini Edizioni, 2009; German translation Kassel, Bärenreiter, 2010); Le stagioni di Niccolò Jommelli (Naples, Turchini Edizioni, 2018); Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe (Vienna, Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2018); Storia della musica e dello spettacolo a Napoli. Il Seicento (Naples, Turchini Edizioni, 2019). His essays have appeared in journals such as Studi pergolesiani / Pergolesi Studies, Mozart-Jahrbuch, Musica/Realtà, Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, Analecta Musicologica, Fonti Musicali Italiane, Recercare, Römische Historische Mitteilungen, Napoli nobilissima, Studi Musicali, Problemi di critica goldoniana, Rivista di Letteratura Teatrale, Studi goldoniani, Anuario Calderoniano, Drammaturgia, Il Risorgimento, Venezia Arti, Atti e Memorie, as well as in numerous collective volumes. He has presented papers at conferences organized by European, American, and Asian institutions.

His contribution to the artistic and scientific programming of the Fondazione Pietà de’ Turchini has, for many years, been of extraordinary importance. Together with Federica Castaldo, he has designed musical productions for the ensemble Talenti Vulcanici, concert series within the seasons of Pietà de’ Turchini, recordings, international scholarly conferences, and publications for Turchini Edizioni—always with tireless dedication and an unparalleled originality of vision.