A valuable information source on the composer, featuring 489 annotated
entries (61 on the operas) that cover the literature. Also a worklist, inventory
of editions, and a biographical summary. Author and title indexes.- Schlefer, James R. “Inventory of Sources for the Music of Giovanni Battista
Pergolesi in Catalogues of Libraries, Private Collections, and Exhibitons.” - (Typescript.)
A survey prepared for the Pergolesi Research Center, City U. of New York, and
available there. Described in Paymer (#1389), item 114.
Conferences
1391.G. B. Pergolesi (1710–1736): Note e documenti raccolti in occasione della set-
timana celebrativa (15–20 settembre 1942).Ed. Sebastiano Arturo Luciani.
Siena: Ticci, for the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, 1942. 102p. ML390 .S56.
Thirteen papers are separately described in Paymer (#1389), item 89.
1392.Pergolesi Studies = Studi pergolesiani. Proceedings of the International Sym-
posium.Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon, 1986. 2v. ISBN 0-918728-79-7. ML410
.P29 P47.
One volume on each of the two conferences, Jesi (Italy), 1983, and New York,- Contents available through Paymer (#1389), item 88. One paper is
entered at #1397.
Collections of Essays
1393.Il caso Pergolesi. Ed. Barry S. Brook and Marvin Paymer. Bergamo: Bolis,- 189p.
Not seen. Eight essays are described in Paymer (#1389), item 87.
1394.Pergolesi. Ed. Francesco Degrada et al. Naples: Sergio Cività, 1986. 237p. No
ISBN. ML410 .P44 P83.
A collection issued to observe the 250th anniversary of Pergolesi’s death. Most
of the essays are about biographical and background matters. Excellent pho-
tographs of cities, theaters, and other sites relevant to the composer. Bibliogra-
phy of about 150 entries, worklist, no index.
Biographies
- Radiciotti, Giuseppe. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Milan: Fratelli Treves,
- 300p. ML410 .P43 R123.
First edition, 1910. A German translation: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Leben
und Werk(trans., enlarged, and rev. Antoine E. Cherbuliez [Zurich: Pan,
1954]). A scholarly life and works, with program notes on the operas. Foot-
notes, worklist, bibliography of about 250 titles, name index.
Individual Works
L’Olimpiade
IO–1640,v.34.
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