Giovanni Battista Riccio
What’s New
2026
24 January 2026 (forthcoming)
Milano, Pontificio Istituto Ambrosiano di Musica Sacra (PIAMS)
Presentation of Riccio Opera Omnia at PIAMS, Milan
Presentation of Giovanni Battista Riccio’s Opera Omnia as part of the series of talks “Incontriamoci al PIAMS”, with Marina Toffetti, Chiara Comparin, and Gabriele Taschetti.
2025
5 October 2025
Salerno, Conservatory “G. Martucci”
XXII Conference on Music Analysis and Theory, Salerno
Paper “La metodologia Extended Matrix e la mappatura del processo analitico per la ricostruzione della musica incompleta di Giovanni Battista Riccio” (“The Extended Matrix methodology and the mapping of the analytical process for the reconstruction of Giovanni Battista Riccio’s incomplete music”) presented by Simone Berto (CNR, Rome) and Gabriele Taschetti (University of Padua) within the study session “Lo studio del repertorio polifonico incompleto: aspetti analitici e prospettive interdisciplinari” (“The study of incomplete polyphonic repertoire: analytical aspects and interdisciplinary perspectives”), coordinated by Marina Toffetti (University of Padua). See conference programme.
1 October 2025
Kraków, Musica Iagellonica
Riccio Opera Omnia vol. 3/I published
The first volume of the critical edition of Il terzo libro delle divine lodi (Venice, 1620) edited by Chiara Comparin has been published. Check the page at Musica Iagellonica and here for more information.
19 September 2025
Brescia, Conservatory “L. Marenzio”
Riccio’s Incomplete Music at the Brescia Conservatory
Conference “La restituzione delle polifonie incomplete fra teoria e prassi: il caso dei mottetti del primo e del secondo libro delle divine lodi (1612, 1614) di Giovanni Battista Riccio” (“The reconstruction of incomplete polyphonies between theory and practice: the case of the motets from the Divine Lodi books I and II by Giovanni Battista Riccio”), with Marina Toffetti, Chiara Comparin, and Gabriele Taschetti (moderator: Attilio Cantore), held as part of the first edition of the series of musicological meetings “Istitutioni Harmoniche” (coordinator: Massimo Priori).
9–12 July 2025
Valencia, Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació, Universitat de València
IMS Intercongressional Symposium 2025
Poster “Mus.I.Care: Taking Care of Incomplete Music” presented by Marina Toffetti, Enrico Scavo, and Gabriele Taschetti at the IMS Intercongressional Symposium “Global Mediterranean. Postcolonial music histories (16th-20th centuries)” in Valencia.
7 May 2025
Monteortone, Santuario Madonna della Salute
Quoniam Ensemble plays Riccio
Concert “Divine Lodi Musicali. Musica sacra e strumentale a Venezia fra XVI e XVII secolo”, Ensemble Quoniam (dir. Paolo Tognon), with music by Giovanni Battista Riccio, including reconstructed pieces.
21 January 2025
Padova, Palazzo Liviano
PhD seminar on damaged artistic heritage
Seminar “Beni artistici e musicali danneggiati e lacunosi: diagnosi e ripristino” (“Damaged and incomplete artistic and musical heritage: diagnosis and restoration”) held by Marina Toffetti, with contributions by Gabriele Taschetti and Enrico Scavo, Simone Berto (CNR, Rome), and Elena Randi (University of Bologna), within the institutional activities for PhD students in History, Protection and Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the University of Padua.
2024
14–16 October 2024
Genève, Haute École de Musique
International Conference “Reconstructing and Re-Sounding Early Music”
Two papers on Giovanni Battista Riccio and a moment musical with reconstructed motets from the Primo libro delle divine lodi were presented at the international conference “Reconstructing and Re-sounding Early Music”, jointly organised by the Haute École de Musique de Genève, the University of Padua, and the University of Geneva (see programme here).
- Chiara Comparin, “Ascertaining the actual state of preservation of music collections: the case of Riccio’s first (1612) and second (1614) books of the Divine Lodi”
- Marina Toffetti and Gabriele Taschetti, “What Riccio’s incomplete music teaches us: problems of analysis and reconstructive solutions in the first and second books of the Divine Lodi (1612, 1614)”
- Moment musical by the Geneva International Early Music Collective (dir. Pierre-Louis Rétat), “Giovanni Battista Riccio’s Divine Lodi”
1 October 2024
Kraków, Musica Iagellonica
Riccio Opera Omnia vol. 1 published
27 May, 10 and 24 June 2024
Hamburg, Hochschule für Musik und Theater
Workshop “The Reconstruction of the Missing Parts in Incomplete Polyphony” in Hamburg
6 May 2024
Padova, Palazzo Maldura
Concert-lecture with Quoniam Ensemble
2023
24–28 July 2023
Munich Residenz
MedRen Munich
28 June–2 July 2023
Genève, Haute École de Musique
Biennial Baroque Conference Genève
3 May 2023
Padova, Palazzo Liviano
International Study Day “Restoring Fragmentary Cultural Heritage”
3 May 2023
Padova, Palazzo Liviano
Concert-lecture with Quoniam Ensemble
14 April 2023
Milano, Pontificio Istituto Ambrosiano di Musica Sacra (PIAMS)
PhD Seminar at the PIAMS, Milan
2022
21–23 October 2022
Cremona, Palazzo Raimondi
XXIX Italian Musicological Society Annual Conference
1 October 2022
Kraków, Musica Iagellonica
Riccio Opera Omnia series inaugurated
2021
24 September 2021
University of Padua
European Researchers’ Night, Padua
26–30 April 2021
Vicenza, Conservatory “A. Pedrollo”
Spring School “In Search of the Lost Voice”
4–5 March 2021
Genève, Haute École de Musique
Séminaire “La reconstruction de la musique incomplète”
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