Paolo Isotta

Paolo Isotta
Born	October 18, 1950 Napoli, Italy
Occupation	Musicologist and writer
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	University of Naples
Period	1974–present
Notable works	Il ventriloquo di Dio La virtù dell'elefante

Paolo Isotta (born October 18, 1950) is an Italian musicologist and writer.

Life

Isotta graduated from the University of Naples, where he studied classic Letters and law. He also studied piano with Vincenzo Vitale and composition with Renato Parodi and Renato Dionisi.^[1]

He was the musical critic for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera from 1980 to 2015 and for other journals such as Il Giornale.

In 2013 he published a critical article against Daniel Harding and, indirectly, Claudio Abbado, following which Stéphane Lissner, La Scala's director, declared him "non-pleasant person".^[2]

He wrote several books of musical criticism, among these one on the influence of the music in the Works of Thomas Mann.

Decorations and awards

• 2006: Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art

Works

• Antonio Caldara: problemi e prospettive (1971),
• I diamanti della corona. Grammatica del Rossini napoletano (1974),
• I sentieri della musica (1978),
• Dixit Dominus Domino meo. Struttura e semantica in Haendel e Vivaldi (1980),
• Il ventriloquo di Dio: Thomas Mann e la musica nell'opera letteraria (1983),
• Le ali di Wieland (1984),
• Per una lettura de "Il Turco in Italia", (1985),
• Protagonisti della musica (1988),
• Victor De Sabata: un compositore (1992),
• Omaggio a Renata Tebaldi (2002),
• La virtù dell'elefante (2014),
• Altri canti di Marte (2015).

References

1. Doremi, Daniela (November 2, 2015). "Paolo Isotta". Catalogo dei viventi 2015 – Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved June 24, 2016.
2. Davies, Lizzy (February 3, 2013). "La Scala blacklists veteran music critic". The Guardian. Retrieved June 24, 2016.

External links

• Works by Paolo Isotta at Open Library
  
• "A dialogue with Maestro Paolo Isotta". Oclarim. November 27, 2015.