A Different Take on the Neapolitan School in Guido Olivieri’s Monograph ‘String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples’

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Piotr Wilk


Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2343-2116

Abstract

This article reviews monograph book published by Cambridge University Press (2024), dedicated to a hitherto neglected area of research, namely the instrumental works of the so-called Neapolitan School. Guido Olivieri’s publication is the result of 30 years of his pioneering work, based on sources overlooked and inaccessible to researchers outside the Neapolitan milieu. The author brings to light an unjustly forgotten repertoire and figures who enjoyed fame in their homeland and influenced European music of the 18th century. He reveals the impact of political events on Naples’ musical output and the careers of its instrumentalists.



Keywords:

Neapolitan instrumental music, Italian music of the 18th century, Italian influences in French and Austrian music, music patronage, Naples, virtuosi

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2025-10-07

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Wilk, P. (2025). A Different Take on the Neapolitan School in Guido Olivieri’s Monograph ‘String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples’. Muzyka, 70(3), 179–188. https://doi.org/10.36744/m.4583

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Piotr Wilk 

Jagiellonian University in Kraków Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2343-2116

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