Reto Müller (born February 1964,

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Swiss Swiss most commonly refers to: * the adjectival form of Switzerland * Swiss people Swiss may also refer to: Places * Swiss, Missouri * Swiss, North Carolina * Swiss, West Virginia * Swiss, Wisconsin Other uses * Swiss Café, an old café located ...

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 ...

focusing on

Gioachino Rossini Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. He gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote man ...

. Müller has been studying Rossini's work since 1979 (full-time since 2010). Since 1991 he has been providing advisory and organizational services to the

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Opera festival ''

Rossini in Wildbad Rossini in Wildbad is a bel canto opera festival in Bad Wildbad, Baden-Württemberg, specialising in the lesser-known operas of Gioachino Rossini and his contemporaries. The festival commemorates a stay by Rossini at the town's spa in 1856, whic ...

''. Since 1992 he has also been active in the Fondazione Rossini (Pesaro / Italy), including the publications ''Bollettino del Centro rossiniano di studi'' and ''Lettere e Documenti''. In 2011 he was appointed Member and Secretary of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Rossini. Müller is a leader of th
Deutsche Rossini Gesellschaft
(DRG) which he had joined in 1990 (Secretary, 1993–96; Managing Chair since 1996). He serves as editor of DRG-bulletin and the DRG's annual journa

Exhibitions

* ''Rossini a Napoli'', Teatro di San Carlo, Naples; December 1991 to January 1992 * ''Rossini im Portrait'', Foyer of the Staatsoper Stuttgart; 15 May to 1 July 1993 * ''Hommage an Rossini'', Gallery in GENO-Haus Stuttgart; June 9 to 7 July 1999 * ''Hommage an Rossini'', Trinkhalle Bad Wildbad; 11 to 25 July 1999

Bibliography

* ''Hommage an Rossini''. Kommentierter Katalog in ''Hommage an Rossini'', 1999 * ''Rossini in Bad Kissingen'' in ''La Gazzetta'', 2003 * ''Rossini und das Libretto - Hinweise in Briefen und Dokumenten'' in ''Rossini und das Libretto''. Tagungsband, 2010 * ''Rossini e Hiller attraverso i documenti e gli scritti'' in ''Bollettino del Centro Rossiniano di Studi'', 1992 * ''Rossini nel giudizio di Amadeus Wendt'' in ''Bollettino del Centro Rossiniano di Studi'', 1999 * ''Über Amadeus Wendt und das erste deutsche Rossini-Buch'' in Stendhal/Wendt:''Rossini's Leben und Treiben'', 2003 * ''Die Urfassung von Rossinis 'Stabat Mater in ''Rossini in Paris'', 2002 * La Cenerentola'. Der Triumph der Güte'', Programm Rossini in Wildbad, 2010 * ''Rossinis 'Messa di Gloria' und das Musikleben Neapels von 1819/20 in der Wahrnehmung des sächischen Komponisten Carl Borromäus von Miltitz'', in ''La Gazzetta'', 2012 * ''Gioachino Rossini: Guillaume Tell (Wilhelm Tell)'' (Operntexte der Deutschen Rossini Gesellschaft), 2 July 2013 * ''Gioachino Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims ossia L'albergo del Giglio d'Oro (Die Reise nach Reims oder Das Hotel zur goldenen Lilie)'' (Operntexte der Deutschen Rossini Gesellschaft), 25 June 2014 (with Luigi Balochi) * ''Gioachino Rossini: Bianca e Falliero'' (Operntexte der Deutschen Rossini Gesellschaft) Broschiert, 18 May 2015 * ''Lo 'Stabat Mater' del 1832: Rossini (e Tadolini) alla crociata del 'Mufti in ''Quaderni della Fondazione Donizetti'', 44, 2015 * ''Gioachino Rossini: Sigismondo (Sigismund)'' (Operntexte der Deutschen Rossini Gesellschaft), 4 February 2016 A complete bibliography of Müller's Rossini studies and articles is available a

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Muller, Reto Living people Swiss musicologists Classical music catalogues 1964 births