Lorenzo Tozzi

LORENZO TOZZI
Peculiar figure of musicologist-musician graduated in Literature, Lorenzo Tozzi is an historian and music critic, continuista, conductor and organizer.

He studied piano, composition, choral music, orchestral conducting and he specialized in Baroque practice with Alan Curtis and Jasper Christensen.
Professor of Music History at the S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, he also taught at the Universities of Fermo and Lecce. Music critic for the roman newspaper Il Tempo, he collaborates with numerous music magazines. For Ricordi, Suvini Zerbini and Schott, he edited the critical edition of works by Paisiello, Cimarosa, Piccinni, Cherubini, Scarlatti, Rossini; works later directed by Muti, Scimone, Ferro and Bellugi, and the complete Cantatas by the architect Carlo Rainaldi for the Italian Institute of Music History. In 1994 he founded the Romabarocca Ensemble, which faced the Roman and Neapolitan Baroque repertoire performing rare works such as Agazzari's Eumelio, La Rappresentazione di Anima e Corpo by Cavalieri with Cecilia Gasdia, the Diana schernita by Cornacchioli, Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Scarlatti's La Giuditta, the cantatas of the Roman architect Carlo Rainaldi and La sfera armoniosa by Quagliati. Relevant as well are the first modern performances of the Decebalus by Leo at the Ateneul Theater and the Bucharest Opera, the pastoral work Il pastor di Corinto by Scarlatti and Eco e Narciso by Domenico Scarlatti. More recently he has brought to light works by Francesca Caccini, Andrea Caporale and Girolamo Rossi. President Scalfaro in 1995 made him Knight of the Italian Republic for cultural merits.