The University of Pisa mourns the death of Professor Carolyn Gianturco
The professor disappeared in the early morning of Friday 29 April Carolyn Gianturco, professor of Music History, founder and for several years coordinator of the Choir of the University of Pisa. On Saturday 30 the body will be taken to the chapels of the Misericordia in via Pietrasantina, while the funeral will take place on Tuesday 3 May at 4 pm in San Paolo a Ripa d’Arno.
Professor Carolyn Gianturco studied music and musicology at the Universities of Marywood, Ruggers and Oxford, where she completed her D. Phil. under the leadership of Sir Jack Westrup. For many years she has established History of music at the University of Pisa. In the academic year 1999-2000 she founded the Choir of the University of Pisa and maintained its coordination until 2013. From 2010 to 2013 she was entrusted with the coordination of the Center for the dissemination of culture and musical practice, which in the 2021 merged into the Center for Innovation and Dissemination of Culture of the Pisa University as a Music Pole.
The research of Professor Gianturco was dedicated above all to the person and music of Alessandro Stradella (1639-82), but also to the definition and dissemination of the Italian poetic-musical genres of the seventeenth century, to the discovery of the music of Tuscany and its history. The results of her research have been presented in 7 volumes, 4 chapters, 48 articles, 165 enclopedia entries and in 16 volumes of Italian facsimile cantatas. You have also edited numerous volumes of conference proceedings and music editions. She was co-author of the first thematic catalog of Stradella’s music and she was the author of the first documented monograph of the composer’s life with analyzes of more than 300 compositions by him.
He founded and directed the double series Studi Musicali Toscani. Researches and catalogs, 13 vols. and Tuscan Music Studies. Music, 4 vols. He was president of the National Edition of Alessandro Stradella’s Opera Omnia, a project of 42 vols. established in 2000 by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities. Professor Carolyn Gianturco was founder and president of the Tuscan Association for the Research of Music Sources, president of the Italian Society of Musicology and vice-president of the International Society of Musicology.