Music of Italy
Genres:	Classical: Opera Pop: Rock (Hardcore) - Hip hop - Folk - jazz
History (Timeline and Samples)
Awards	Italian Music Awards
Charts	Federation of the Italian music industry
Festivals	Umbria Jazz Festival - San Remo Festival - Ravello Festival - Festival dei Due Mondi
Media	Music media in Italy
National anthem	Il Canto degli Italiani
Regional styles
Calabria - Campania - Friuli - Liguria - Lombardy - Naples - Piedmont - Puglia - Rome - Sardinia - Sicily - Tuscany - Valle d'Aosta - Veneto - Venice
Related topics
opera houses - music conservatories

Music of Campania The capital city of the Campania region of Italy is Naples; there is a separate article dealing with the Music of Naples. This article is about musical activites elsewhere in the Campania region. The music of Italy is well-known, and includes numerous musical types, ranging from parish street bands to symphony orchestras, modern rock and pop and opera houses. ... // Art Music Art music is a somewhat broader term than classical music and may be defined for the purposes of this article as establishment music (either religious or secular) that is composed for pubic or private performance. ... Italian opera can be divided into three periods, the Baroque, the Romantic and the modern. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Italy is a European country, and has had a long relationship with rock and roll, a style of music which spread to the country by the early 1960s from the United States. ... There was a dynamic Italian hardcore punk scene in the 1980s . ... Italian hip hop started in the early 1990s. ... Italian folk music has a deep and complex history. ... Time line for Music of Italy Dates for musical periods such as Baroque, Classical, Romantic, etc. ... FIMI Federazione dellindustria musicale italiana (Federation of the Italian music industry) is an umbella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italian. ... Italian music festivals Below is a list of major music festivals in Italy with links to the appropriate external websites: Arena di Verona Outdoor opera during the summer months in the Roman amphitheater in Verona. ... Palazzo dei Priori in Perugia The Umbria Jazz Festival is one of the most important venues for Jazz in Europe and has been held annually since 1973, usually in July, in the city of Perugia, Italy. ... The Festival della canzone italiana (in Italian: Festival of the Italian song) is a popular Italian song contest running since 1951 and held annually in the city of Sanremo. ... The annual Festival of Ravello is a popular music venue in Italy. ... Cathedral of Santa Maria dellAssunta in Spoleto The Festival dei due Mondi (Festival of Two Worlds) is an annual summer festival in the city of Spoleto, Italy. ... Music media in Italy There is an abundance of print, on-line and broadcast media in Italy that cover all kinds of music. ... A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is formally recognized by a countrys government as their official national song. ... Il Canto degli Italiani (The Song of the Italians) is the Italian national anthem. ... The Music of Calabria Like other regions in southern Italy, Calabria for many centuries was an integral part of the kingdom of Naples, and, as with other regions, the musical life tended to be overshadowed by the important activities in the capital city to the north--the conservatories there, the... The complete name of this Italian region is Friuli-Venezia Giulia. ... Ciao, Raggazi Music of Naples is very cool ... The Piedmont (Piemonte in Italian) has played an important role in the development of music, in general, in Italy, due to the presence of medieval monasteries in that area, institutions that were great preservers of mansucripts in the Middle Ages as well as being geographically well located to connect to... Probably the most culturally distinct of all the regions in Italy, Sardinia is an islated island known for the tenores polyphonic chant, sacred songs called gozos and launeddas, a type of bagpipes. ... Sicily is home to a great variety of Christian music, including a cappella devotional songs from Montedoro and many brass bands like Banda Ionica, who play songs from a diverse repertoire. ... The development of music in the Valle dAosta region of Italy, similar to nearby Piedmont, has much to do with the presence of medieval monasteries that preserved important musical manuscripts from the Middle Ages and also served as conduits of information and influence from areas to the north. ... (This article is about music in the Veneto region of Italy, other than the city of Venice. ... The Venetian state and the city of Venice in Italy played an important role in the development of the music of Italy. ... Credit: Ahoerstemeier (outline), Sascha Noyes (other stuff), 2004 Info: Map of the regions of Italy with the individual region highlighted. ... Below is a list of major Italian opera houses with appropriate external links to their websites: Bologna Teatro Comunale Catania Teatro Bellini Florence Teatro la Pergola Genova Teatro Carlo Felice Florence La Scala Naples Teatro San Carlo Parma Teatro Regio di Parma Palermo Teatro Massimo Rome Teatro dellOpera Torino... Below is an alphabetical list, by city, of those music conservatories in Italy that maintain webpages. ... Naples panorama Naples (Italian Napoli, Neapolitan Napule, from Greek Νέα Πόλις - Néa Pólis - meaning New City; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is the largest city in southern Italy and capital of Campania Region and the Province of Naples. ... Ciao, Raggazi Music of Naples is very cool ...

As one moves away from Naples in almost any direction, there is prominent musical activity to be found. These include, for example, the restoration and use of a number of the so-called "Vesuvian villas" in and near Ercolano (ancient Herculaneum), a string of once luxurious villas built in the 1700s and severely damaged by aerial bombardment in WW2. The most prominent of these is the Villa Campolieto, already restored, open and the site of chamber concerts by the Alessandro Scarlatti association. Herculaneum (in modern Italian formerly Resina, but since 1969 Ercolano) was an ancient Roman town of the Italian region of Campania. ... Alessandro Scarlatti Alessandro Scarlatti (May 2, 1660 – October 24, 1725) was a Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. ...

The islands in the Bay of Naples should not be overlooked. The most important musical activity there is on the island of Ischia on the lovely premises of the Mortella Gardens and Villa, the site of the William Walton Foundation, which hosts a yearly music and opera workshop. The island of Ischia near Naples, Italy. ... Sir William Walton on the set of one of his operas Sir William Turner Walton, OM (March 29, 1902–March 8, 1983) was a British composer whose style was influenced by the works of Stravinsky, Sibelius and jazz. ...

The Flavian amphitheater in Pozzuoli, one of the greatest such structures in the ancient world, has undergone extensive restoration and is the site of outdoor summer concerts. Also, since 1985, the cloister of St. Francis in the town of Sorrento has hosted the annual Summer of Music in Sorrento, an extensive program of classical music. Pozzuoli (pop. ... Sorrento is the name of many cities and towns: Sorrento,_Italy Sorrento,_Florida, United States of America Sorrento, suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Sorrento, suburb of Perth, Western Australia, Australia Sorrento, Hong Kong, the largest residential development on Kowloon Station This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists...

Futher afield, in other provinces of the region, the city of Avellino has two prominent musical facilities: the Domenico Cimarosa Conservatory and, after a century without a decent opera house, the new Carlo Gesualdo Theater, opened in 2002 with a presentation of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro Avellino is a town and comune (township) of Italy, the capital of the Avellino province in eastern Campania, at 40°55N 14°46E, 351 meters (1152 ft) above sea-level. ... Domenico Cimarosa (December 17, 1749-January 11, 1801), Italian opera composer, was born at Aversa, in the kingdom of Naples. ... Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa Carlo Gesualdo (?March 8, ?1566 – September 8, 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian composer, lutenist, nobleman, and notorious murderer of the late Renaissance. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ... QPAC poster for The Marriage of Figaro The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro ossia la folle giornata), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Beaumarchais, Le mariage...

The city of Benevento has put to musical use some of its considerable array of ancient Roman archaeology, most prominently the Roman Theater from the second century, a.d. Various musical activites are hosted there as part of the city's ongoing self-promotion as the the City of "Spettacoli". The city also has a music conservatory located in the large Palazzo De Simone. Benevento is a town and archiepiscopal see of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, 32 miles northeast of Naples. ...

The annual Festival of Ravello is a popular music venue in Italy. Here, an orchestra starts to set up on a stage overlooking the Amalfi coast.

The city of Caserta is best-known as the site of the "Versailles of Italy", the gigantic Bourbon Royal Place built by Vanvitelli in the mid-1700s. The court theater on the premises is the site of frequent concerts, as are the new Communal Theater and the nearby San Leucio complex, an old silk-producing facilty and site of a yearly music festival, the eclectic motto of which is "From Giovanni Paisiello to Frank Zappa". Interestingly, Caserta is the only provincial capital in the Campania region without a music conservatory. Image File history File links Ravellofest01. ... Image File history File links Ravellofest01. ... Caserta, near Naples was certainly the largest palace and probably the largest building erected in Europe in the 18th century. ... Versailles in 1789. ... Luigi Vanvitelli (Naples, 1700 - Caserta 1773), an engineer as well as the most prominent 18th-century Italian architect, practiced a sober classicizing academic Late Baroque style that made an easy transition to Neoclassicism. ... Paisiello at the clavichord, by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1791. ... Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, guitarist, singer, film director, and satirist. ...

The province of Salerno includes Ravello on the Amalfo coast with the famous Ravello Festival, certainly one of the important musical and artistic affairs in Italy. The city of Salerno has its own permanent opera company (the only one in the region except for Naples). The city is also the site of the fine Giuseppe Martucci conservatory as well as the newly reopened Verdi Theater. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Amalfi Coast looking south, taken from Ravello, Italy Ravello is a town situated above the Amalfi Coast in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy and has approximately 2500 inhabitants. ... The annual Festival of Ravello is a popular music venue in Italy. ...

(Source: Most of the information on the music activites, theaters and other venues for music in this region is taken from Guide Cultura, i luoghi della music (2003) ed. Touring Club Italiano.)

external links

• Teatro Verdi in Salerno
• Salerno music conservatory
• Ravello Festival
• Avellino music conservatory
• Library of the Benevento music conservatory
• Summer music festival in Sorrento
• La Mortella (William Walton Foundation) on Ischia
• Carlo Gesualdo theater in Avellino