Paolo Isotta

Paolo Isotta
Born (1950-10-18) 18 October 1950
Napoli, Italy
Occupation Music journalist and writer
Nationality Italian
Alma mater University of Naples
Period 1974–present
Notable works Il ventriloquo di Dio
La virtù dell'elefante

Paolo Isotta (born 18 October 1950) is an Italian music journalist and writer.

Life

Isotta graduated from the University of Naples, where he studied classic Letters and law. He also studied piano with Vincenzo Vitale and composition with Renato Parodi and Renato Dionisi.[1]

He was the musical critic for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera from 1980 to 2015 and for other journals such as Il Giornale.

In 2013 he published a critical article against Daniel Harding and, indirectly, Claudio Abbado, following which Stéphane Lissner, La Scala's director, declared him "non-pleasant person".[2]

He wrote several books of musical criticism, among these one on the influence of the music in the Works of Thomas Mann.

Decorations and awards

Works

  • Antonio Caldara: problemi e prospettive (1971)
  • I diamanti della corona. Grammatica del Rossini napoletano (1974)
  • I sentieri della musica (1978)
  • Dixit Dominus Domino meo. Struttura e semantica in Haendel e Vivaldi (1980)
  • Il ventriloquo di Dio: Thomas Mann e la musica nell'opera letteraria (1983)
  • Le ali di Wieland (1984)
  • Per una lettura de "Il Turco in Italia", (1985)
  • Protagonisti della musica (1988)
  • Victor de Sabata: un compositore (1992)
  • Omaggio a Renata Tebaldi (2002)
  • La virtù dell'elefante (2014)
  • Altri canti di Marte (2015)
  • "La bellezza nell'estetica dei 'Meistersinger' di Richard Wagner" (2016)
  • "Paisiello e il mito di Fedra" (2016)
  • "Othello: Shakespeare, Napoli, Rossini" (2016)
  • "Jérusalem: Verdi et la persécution de l'honneur" (Liège, 2017)
  • "Il canto degli animali. I nostri fratelli e i loro sentimenti in musica e in poesia" (2017)

References

  1. ↑ Doremi, Daniela (November 2, 2015). "Paolo Isotta". Catalogo dei viventi 2015 – Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  2. ↑ Davies, Lizzy (February 3, 2013). "La Scala blacklists veteran music critic". The Guardian. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Medaglia d'oro ai benemeriti della cultura e dell'arte - Isotta Prof. Paolo". Quirinale.it (in Italian). Retrieved February 6, 2017.

Sources

  • Zurletti, Sara (22 January 2015). De la critique musicale à la "transvaluation" de la musique italienne : le cas de Paolo Isotta, critique musical du Corriere della sera. Le technicien et l’écrivain. Questionner la légitimité des figures de la critique musicale du XXe siècle à nos jours (in French). Paris-Sorbonne University. Retrieved 6 February 2007.
  • Works by Paolo Isotta at Open Library Edit this at Wikidata
  • "A dialogue with Maestro Paolo Isotta". Oclarim. November 27, 2015.
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