Guanajuato, Gto., December 27, 2018.- Dr. Fabrizio Ammetto has dedicated part of his work to the reconstruction and interpretation of the compositions of Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), whose work has been identified more than fifty of incomplete instrumental structures, between sonatas, concerts and symphonies.

Doctor in musicology and musical goods from the University of Bologna in Italy, violin and viola performer; Founder, director and concert of L'Orfeo Ensemble di Spoleto, Italy; Professor-Researcher "C" of the Department of Music and Performing Arts of the Division of Architecture, Art and design, responsible for the consolidated academic body of "Musicology", member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the National system of Researchers (level II), and founder of the Baroque ensemble of the UG, found that some subjects, accompaniments, harmonic structures, among other missing elements, were present in other of Vivaldi's compositions.

In an interview, Dr. Ammetto mentioned that "Antonio Vivaldi is an author that all musicians, violinists or in general instrumentalists, as well as singers, have to study during their school period; as a violinist, I had to deepen many of his works, and this was the first approach with his music; but then there came a time when I was no longer so satisfied with the editions I was using for my executions, and so I began to look for the original sources, printed as manuscripts, to work in new editions; this caught my attention because I began to see that there were discrepancies between the original text of Vivaldi's composition and some editions."

Dr. Ammetto has made very important reconstructions of Vivaldi's compositions, among them are the concerts for violin, organ and orchestra, RV 774 and 775, of which one has only the part of the solo violin, which is equivalent to one sixth of the whole composition; Scientifically it was possible to rebuild the first movements when compared with the complete concerts RV 123, 284 and 285, which share material in common.

As a result of his research, Fabrizio Ammetto, in 2008 was invited to be part of the important International Scientific Committee of the Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi (Fondazione Giorgio Cini) in Venice, in charge of the publication in critical edition of the entire work of this great Italian composer.

In this regard, Dr. Ammetto commented: "... These investigations called the attention of the international scientific community, which means that the members of the Italian institute Antonio Vivaldi, who are in Venice, contacted me to ask if I was Interested in entering the Scientific Committee, currently composed of nine researchers from different countries, most of them are university academics, there are professors emeritus, there is a researcher who was director of the Faculty of Music of the Oxford University, and of course I accepted; the work has been quite interesting, stimulating, also fun and has come to produce its results."

Dr. Ammetto is the author of more than a hundred publications and has performed about 800 concerts (such as violinist, violist and conductor) in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, the Czech Republic, the United States and Mexico.

In the field of the University of Guanajuato, Doctor Ammetto has given, for more than 10 years, several courses of musical philology and musical analysis for the degree students in music; master and doctorate in Arts of the University of Guanajuato, and as a result of the theoretical-practical interdisciplinary workshops on the interpretation of Baroque music (directed to instrumentalists, singers and composers), the Baroque ensemble was created, the first musical group of the University of Guanajuato that he has participated in eight consecutive versions of the Cervantino International Festival, from 2011 to 2018.

It has propitiated and coordinated the composition and staging of the first Spanish-language opera of the UG, written for (and made entirely by) more than 200 university students: Angela, Dante and Umbria (libretto by Benjamin Valdivia, Music by Giancarlo Aquilanti and stage direction of Javier García González).

Today, it promotes the recent critical edition of the 12 Sonatas in trio opus I (1703) by Vivaldi which has been published in the framework of the Edizione critica delle opere di Antonio Vivaldi (Milan, Ricordi).

In 2018 was published the critical edition of the six Sextets op. 23 for two violins, two violas and two cellos G 454-459 (1776) by Luigi Boccherini, within the framework of the Italian national edition of the Opera Omnia of this composer, in which Dr. Ammetto is the first author along with Dr. Christian Speck (Universitaet Koblenz, Landau, Germany), top expert in the world of Luigi Boccherini.

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