Domenico Morgante (Monopoli, 1956) is an Italian

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

organist An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ (music), organ. An organist may play organ repertoire, solo organ works, play with an musical ensemble, ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumentalist, instrumental ...

and

harpsichordist A harpsichordist is a person who plays the harpsichord. Harpsichordists may play as soloists, as accompanists, as chamber musicians, or as members of an orchestra, or some combination of these roles. Solo harpsichordists may play unaccompanied son ...

Biography

Graduated and specialized Cum Laude in Musicology, Organ, Harpsichord, Educational Sciences, he was a student of Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini,

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Marie-Claire Alain Marie-Claire Geneviève Alain-Gommier (10 August 1926 – 26 February 2013) was a French organist, scholar and teacher best known for her prolific recording career, with 260 recordings, making her the most-recorded classical organist in the worl ...

, Sergio Vartolo. As a researcher he has worked on various European Projects of Music. Of many compositions of the past has performed salvages and restorations critics (

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, Giorgio Lapazaya, Jacquet de Berchem, Giacomo Insanguine, Salvatore Fighera, Onofrio van Westerhout, Giuseppe de Ferrariis). As a musicologist has to his credit a hundred publications in Italy and abroad. At the end of the 1960s, though very young, was among the first in Italy to deal with philological interpretation of Ancient Music and the concertism with historical instruments. He directed the restoration of important historical keyboard instruments, collaborating on several occasions with the

Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities The Ministry of Culture () is the ministry of the Government of Italy in charge of national museums and maintenance of historical monuments. MiC's headquarters are located in the historic Collegio Romano Palace (via del Collegio Romano 27, in ...

. Since its founding in 1985 he has been the Director of the Mediterranean Institute of Musicology. He was awarded Professor Emeritus in the Organ Academy " Giacomo Insanguine" of

Monopoli Monopoli (; ) is a town and comune, municipality in Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Bari and region of Apulia. The town is roughly in area and lies on the Adriatic Sea about southeast of Bari. It has a population of 49,246 (2014), ...

(Bari), for his outstanding teaching in the field of the organ he was awarded the Premio Abbiati Italian Music Critics under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic (

Fiesole Fiesole () is a town and ''comune'' of the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, on a scenic height above Florence, 5 km (3 miles) northeast of that city. It has structures dating to Etruscan and Roman times. ...

, 2008). In 2013 he received awards from the art world and from the Albanian academic world (Biennale Music,

Durrës Durrës ( , ; sq-definite, Durrësi) is the List of cities and towns in Albania#List, second most populous city of the Albania, Republic of Albania and county seat, seat of Durrës County and Durrës Municipality. It is one of Albania's oldest ...

; Ministry of Culture,

Tirana Tirana ( , ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in Albania, largest city of Albania. It is located in the centre of the country, enclosed by mountains and hills, with Dajti rising to the east and a slight valley to the northwest ov ...

).Flora Gjondedaj Dervishi, ''Mes Kryemesharit dhe Antifonarit. A nuk i detyrohet Muzikologjia, cultura shqiptare, professor Domeniko Morgantes, për Antifonarin e durrsakut Gjergj Danush Lapacaj, të vitit 1532??'', in “Bulevard”, 2 Korrik 2013, VIII (653), pp. 10 e sgg.

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