Inhalt:
Is Italy a Bach-loving country? Starting from this question, Borghesi
recounts the stages, protagonists and features of the Italian reception of J.
S. Bach. The author reconstructs the musicological debate around the German
composer, discusses the role of Bach's works in education and the editorial
market, tracing back the activities of performers, musical institutions and
record companies. Special attention is devoted to Bach's Lutheran sacred
music and its dissemination in the Italian Catholic culture.
The volume constantly finds a balance between the identification of larger
trends and the investigation of specific case studies. It therefore provides
the much-needed history of a little-known component of Italian musical
culture in the second half of the twentieth century.