Global Mediterranean. Postcolonial music histories (16th-20th centuries). IMS Intercongressional Symposium

Session

RT 86 (Bottesini)

RT 86

12 Jul 2025, 09:00

Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació – Universitat de València

Conveners

RT 86 (Bottesini): Giovanni Bottesini (1821 – 1889): a Global Mediterranean Life

• Miranda Tagliari R N Sousa (University of Pittsburgh)

86. Giovanni Bottesini (1821 – 1889): a Global Mediterranean Life

12/07/2025, 09:00

Round table

As a performer, opera conductor and composer, Giovanni Bottesini was a key figure in the nineteenth-century traveling Italian opera performing circuit. His career is exemplary of the transnational entanglements of musical culture in a century that brought highly accelerated land and sea travel. Bottesini’s engagements, performances, and show how music culture became increasingly global. These...