Fondo Rognoni
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Abstract
Luigi Rognoni, founder and first director of the Institute of History of Music at the University of Palermo in 1958, was a professor of History of Music in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy from 1958 to 1970, musicologist, music and film critic, publisher, director, also professor of German literature, aesthetics and philosophy of language, co-founder of the Italian Film Archive and of the RAI Third Programme, conductor and composer in his youth.
The Collection, as a whole, is composed of volumes of philosophical, artistic, literary, and musicological interest, including the private archive and tape library. It is of significant importance not only for musicological studies, but also for understanding Italian culture of the last century and testifying to the scholar's multifaceted activity.
Description
At the Music Library of the Department of Humanities. The Musicology and DAMS section houses the section of musicological interest, approximately 4,000 printed volumes: monographs, periodical years, opera and printed music librettos, and radio tapes.
The material selected for inclusion in the university's digital library today concerns printed music volumes, particularly scores and scores published mostly between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, and represents a documentary resource dedicated to musicology of great importance.
