Enrico Baiano (Naples, October 2, 1960) is an Italian harpsichordist and fortepianist, known on the international stage as a virtuoso and strict interpreter of early music.

Biography

He graduated in piano and composition at Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella,

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. He subsequently specialized in harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano a
Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi

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. He has performed at the most renowned early music festivals in Europe, Israel and Japan with a repertoire ranging from 16th to 21st century. He has taken part in various Italian and European television and radio broadcasts and in two documentary films directed by Francesco Leprino: "Sul nome B.A.C.H." and “A daring game” (on Domenico Scarlatti). He is one of the major scholars and interpreters of the music of the Neapolitan masters of the seventeenth century ( Giovanni de Macque,

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, Gregorio Strozzi,etc.),

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Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Help:IPA/Standard German, �joːhan zeˈbasti̯an baχ ( – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety ...

. Other authors to whom he dedicates in-depth study are the Elizabethan virginalists, Henry Purcell, Louis Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Carl Philip Emanuel Bach, Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Muzio Clementi, Ludwig van Beethoven. Baiano has earned a number of international awards including the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Diapason d'Or, Choc de la Musique and Platte des Monats.FIMA - Fondazione Italiana per la Musica Antica - Enrico Baiano
(in Italian) In 2024 he was awarded th
Franco Abbiati
Prize. He was harpsichord professor at the Conservatorio Alessandro Scarlatti, Palermo and at Conservatorio Domenico Cimarosa, Avellino. He is currently professor of harpsichord and historical keyboards at th
Conservatorio Santa Cecilia
Rome . He is a member of the Advisory Panel of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America .

Publications

*
Method for Harpsichord
' , Ut Orpheus, Bologna 2010 (in English; also in Italian, French, German, Spanish and Japanese). * ''Il discorso musicale'', in ''La narrazione al plurale'' (edited by Simona Messina), Gaia Editrice, 2012. * ''(with Marco Moiraghi) Le sonate di Domenico Scarlatti - Testo, contesto, interpretazione''
LIM
Lucca 2014. * ''Mille fughe, pause e riprese – Clavicembalisti napoletani'', in ''Storia della Musica e del Teatro a Napoli''-''Il Seicento'' (edited by Francesco Cotticelli e Paologiovanni Maione
Turchini Edizioni
Napoli 2019. * ''Piccola introduzione al Clavicembalo ben Temperato,'' in ''I Quaderni del Cimarosa'' (a cura di Marina Marino e Massimo Signorini)'','' V-2019''.'' * ''Bach and the Seconda Pratica,'' in ''Bach e l’Italia'' (in English)''. Scambi, sguardi, convergenze'' (a cura di Chiara Bertoglio e Maria Borghesi)'','' LIM ''-'' Lucca 2020''.'' * ''The Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti from the perspective of Italian 17th century Toccata'' (in English), proceedings from XIV congress ‘Diego Fernández’ in ''Domenico Scarlatti: Forwards and Backwards'', (edited by Luisa Morales), FIMTE, Almería 2024.

Selected discography

*1995 -

Pietro Domenico Paradisi Pietro Domenico Paradies (also Pietro Domenico Paradisi) (170725 August 1791) was an Italian composer, harpsichordist and music teacher, most prominently known for a composition popularly entitled "''Toccata in A''", which is, in other sources, th ...

, ''Sonatas for harpsichord - 1754'' ( Glossa). *1996 -

, ''Diverse curiose partite'' (

Symphonia Symphonia ( Greek ) is a much-discussed word, applied at different times to the bagpipe, the drum, the hurdy-gurdy, and finally a kind of clavichord. The sixth of the musical instruments enumerated in Book of Daniel, (verses 5, 10 and 15), ...

). *1998 - Antonio de Cabezon, ''Obras de Musica para Tecla'' ( Glossa). *1999 -

, ''Sonate per clavicembalo K46, K109, K126, K175, K181, K217, K232, K233, K248, K249, K295, K296, K394, K395, K402, K439, K516'' (

). *2000 -

Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist, impresario of Baroque music and Roman Catholic priest. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lif ...

, ''Concertos for harpsichord solo'' ( Panclassics). *2001 - ''Musica al tempo di Luca Giordano - Il cembalo nella Napoli del'600'' (

). *2003 -

, ''Toccate, Partite, Canzoni'' (

). *2008 -

, ''Sonate per clavicembalo K3, K24, K69, K99, K113, K115, K118, K119, K120, K132, K148, K149, K184, K213, K214, K215, K216, K268'' (

). *2009

, Sonatas (harpsichord and fortepiano) K96, K124, K125, K141, K386, K387, K426, K427, K445, K481, K482, K 516, K517, K544, K545, K546, K547 (

Stradivarius A Stradivarius is one of the string instruments, such as violins, violas, cellos, and guitars, crafted by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari (Latin: Antonius Stradivarius), in Cremona, Italy, during the late 17th ...

33844). *2022 -

, ''Das Wohltemperirte Clavier I & II'' (harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano
Da Vinci Classic
C00656)''.'' *2024 - (wit
Tommaso Rossi
-

Georg Frideric Handel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel ( ; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti. Born in Halle, Germany, Han ...

, ''Sonatas for reorder/traversiere and thoroughbass'' (Stradivarius) *2024 -

- Toccatas BWV 910-916
Da Vinci Classic

References

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