Giacomo Danese is Professor of Harmony and Music Analysis at the Luigi Cherubini State Conservatory in Florence. After studying music in Italy (piano diploma in 1993, composition diploma in 2000) and academic studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin (with Hermann Danuser) and the University of Roma Tre with E. Matassi (doctorate in philosophy), he taught at the Italian Conservatories of Cosenza, Milan, Pescara and Turin.
In 2008 he was visiting professor at the Conservatorio Superior de Música “A. Piazzolla” of Buenos Aires, in 2010-2011 Gastwissenschaftler for a research project sponsored by the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung in Berlin, and as of 2019 on guest professor at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel.
His publications on Adorno's music and aesthetic include: Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno. Il compositore dialettico (Rubbettino, 2008), Die Klavierlieder Theodor W. Adornos im Kontext der Wiener Schule (Rubbettino, 2012), Theodor Wiesengrund-Adornos Klavierlieder op. 3. Echos eines Wiener Abends für Zeitgenössische Musik [In G. Geml & H.-G. Lie (Eds.), Durchaus rhapsodisch, J. B. Metzler, 2017].
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