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Enrico Baiano (Naples, October 2, 1960) is an Italian harpsichordist and fortepianist, known on the international stage as a virtuoso and strict interpreter of early music. [1]
He graduated in piano and composition at Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella, Naples. He subsequently specialized in harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi, Milan.
He has performed at the most renowned early music festivals in Europe, Israel and Japan with a repertoire ranging from 16th to 21st century. He has taken part in various Italian and European television and radio broadcasts and in two documentary films directed by Francesco Leprino: "Sul nome B.A.C.H." and “A daring game” (on Domenico Scarlatti).
He is one of the major scholars and interpreters of the music of the Neapolitan masters of the seventeenth century (Giovanni de Macque, Ascanio Mayone, Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Giovanni Salvatore, Gregorio Strozzi,etc.), Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Jakob Froberger, Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti, Johann Sebastian Bach. Other authors to whom he dedicates in-depth study are the Elizabethan virginalists, Henry Purcell, Louis Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Carl Philip Emanuel Bach, Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Muzio Clementi, Ludwig van Beethoven.
Baiano has earned a number of international awards including the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Diapason d'Or, Choc de la Musique and Platte des Monats. [2] In 2024 he was awarded the Franco Abbiati Prize.
He was harpsichord professor at the Conservatorio Alessandro Scarlatti, Palermo and at Conservatorio Domenico Cimarosa, Avellino. He is currently professor of harpsichord and historical keyboards at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, Rome .
He is a member of the Advisory Panel of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America .
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Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi was an Italian composer and virtuoso keyboard player. Born in the Duchy of Ferrara, he was one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. A child prodigy, Frescobaldi studied under Luzzasco Luzzaschi in Ferrara, but was influenced by many composers, including Ascanio Mayone, Giovanni Maria Trabaci, and Claudio Merulo. Girolamo Frescobaldi was appointed organist of St. Peter's Basilica, a focal point of power for the Cappella Giulia, from 21 July 1608 until 1628 and again from 1634 until his death.
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