Perspectives Historico-Esthetiques Dans L'Oeuvre de Fernando Liuzzi

Fernando Liuzzi strove to find a compromise between the historical/analytical musicology and the aesthetics of music. He tried to expand the Italian musicology perspectives, introducing some ideas coming from the German tradition. He spread theories from Hanslick, Lipps and Fiedler, at that time rather unknown in Italy. For Liuzzi it was crucial to blend philosophical thinking and musicology, expanding Benedetto Croce's ideas to create a new way to approach music studies. Liuzzi's work can provide a good insight about the early Italian musicology, its self-definition and its relationship with other cultural areas.