Early Modern Italian Music Scholar and Cultural Historian at Georgetown University
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Georgetown UniversityAnthony R. DelDonna serves as Professor in Georgetown University's Department of Performing Arts, where he specializes in 17th and 18th-century Italian music, musicians, and culture. After earning his PhD in historical musicology "with distinction" from the Catholic University of America, he established himself as a leading expert in Neapolitan music and culture1. His research spans opera, instrumental genres, archival studies, performance practice, and ballet, with publications in prestigious journals including Eighteenth-Century Studies, Early Music, and Studi musicali. His scholarly contributions include co-editing "The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera" and authoring "Instrumental Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples," which examines the intersection of politics, patronage, and artistic culture