Paolo Emilio Carapezza

Paolo Emilio Carapezza, emeritus professor of musicology in Palermo University, teached there for more than half a century. He was one of the promoters of the Settimane internazionali di nuova musica in Palermo. Together with Antonino Titone, he started and edited Collage, international review of new music and contemporary visual arts. He is general editor of the corpus Musiche rinascimentali siciliane, and of the musicological series Puncta, Dafni, Aglaia, Constellatio musica and Vega.His works, translated in the principal European languages, regard the music of ancient Greeks, Renaissance and contemporary music, Mozart's theatre, music theory and philosophy. His edition of Greek ancient musics has been registered on cd. In 1992 he was decorated with the medal of Polish Composers Union.