Nino Pirrotta

Nino Pirrotta ( born June 13, 1908 in Palermo, † January 20, 1998 ibid ) was an Italian musicologist and educator.

Pirrotta studied at the universities of Palermo and Florence ( until 1931 ). His field was the music of the 14th century. With the philologist Ettore Li Gotti in 1935 he published the book Il Sacchetti e la Tecnica Musicale. After further work in the 1930s and 1940s, he also turned to the Italian Ars Nova, which he published studies and articles, and sources. Later he conducted research for the Florentine Camerata, as well as for pre-and early history of the opera by Angelo Poliziano to Monteverdi. For his book, Li Due Orfei he received in 1970 Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society.

Pirrotta taught first at the Conservatory of Palermo and was from 1948 to 1956 Librarian of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. After a visiting professorship in 1954 at Princeton University, he was from 1956 to 1972 librarian and professor of music at Harvard University. He then became a professor at the University La Sapienza in Rome. In Italy, he was honored as a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the 1983, Antonio Feltrinelli Prize awarded him.

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  • Musicologist
  • Music teacher
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  • University teachers (University La Sapienza )
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  • Died in 1998
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