Research

Articles

The Thematic Catalogue of the Musical Works of Johann Georg Pisendel (PW): IV. Cadenzas, Sketches, Adaptations, Addenda, Transcriptions, Other. Fabrizio Ammetto, Francisco Javier Lupiáñez Ruiz, Luis Miguel Pinzón Acosta. “Ad Parnassum. A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music“ Volume 22, Issue 42 (April 2024)
La Sonata A-Wn, E.M. 55/13: una nuova composizione di Vivaldi. Francisco Javier Lupiáñez Ruiz e Fabrizio Ammetto, «Studi vivaldiani», XXIII, 2023, pp. 3-19.
The Thematic Catalogue of the Musical Works of Johann Georg Pisendel (PW): III. Lost Compositions and Doubtful Works. Fabrizio Ammetto, Francisco Javier Lupiáñez Ruiz, Luis Miguel Pinzón Acosta. “Ad Parnassum. A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music“ Volume 21, Issue 41 (October 2023)
The Thematic Catalogue of the Musical Works of Johann Georg Pisendel (PW): II. The Orchestral Music. Fabrizio Ammetto, Francisco Javier Lupiáñez Ruiz, Luis Miguel Pinzón Acosta. “Ad Parnassum. A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music“ Volume 21, Issue 40 (April 2023)
The Thematic Catalogue of the Musical Works of Johann Georg Pisendel (PW): I. The Chamber Music. Fabrizio Ammetto, Francisco Javier Lupiáñez Ruiz, Luis Miguel Pinzón Acosta. “Ad Parnassum. A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music“ Volume 20, Issue 39 (October 2022), pp. 1-25.
Three New Sonatas for Violin and Continuo by Johann Georg Pisendel. “Ad Parnassum. A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music“ Volume 18, Issue 35 (April/October 2020), pp. 39-68.

Completando lo inacabado. Consideraciones sobre el compositor, el intérprete y la ornamentación a través de los manuscritos de Johann Georg Pisendel. “Quodlibet, revista de especialización musical” Núm. 73 (2020), pp. 7-49.

Personal Manuscripts as Sources for Ornamentation: the Embellishments of Pisendel in Schrank II, with a Special Focus on Vivaldi. Early Music Performer, Issue 46, Spring 2020.

Las anotaciones de Pisendel en el Concierto para dos violines RV 507 de Vivaldi: Una ventana abierta a la improvisación en la obra del “Cura Rojo”. Javier Lupiáñez – Fabrizio Ammetto ‘Musical Improvisation in the Baroque Era’, Brepols (Turnhout, Belgium) Series of Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, 2019

Una nuova cadenza vivaldiana in un concerto per violino anonimo – A New Vivaldi Cadenza in an Anonymous Violin Concerto. Javier Lupiañez – Fabrizio Ammetto. Studi Vivaldiani 17

New Discoveries of Vivaldi in Dresden. Little article in the RISM
Historical Ornamentation Sources Catalog: A New Resource for Researchers and Performers. Little article in the RISM

Thesis

Javier Lupiáñez. Las anotaciones para la ornamentación de Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755) en los manuscritos vivaldianos de Dresde, tesis de doctorado (director de tesis: Fabrizio Ammetto), Universidad de Guanajuato (México), 2021.
Javier Lupiáñez. New Discoveries of Vivaldi in Dresden, Master Diss., Royal Conservatory of The Hague, 2015. Complete thesis

Booklets

Vivaldi. Violin Sonata RV 829. Booklet. Snakewood Editions, SDIG202401, 2024
Pisendel. Neue Sonaten. Booklet. Snakewood Editions, SCD202001, 2020.
1717. Memories of a Journey to Italy. Booklet. Snakewood Editions, SCD201801, 2018.
Telemann.Chamber music treasures from Dresden and Darmstadt. Booklet. Musica Ficta, MF8029 , 2018
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi. Nuove Sonate. Booklet. Ayros, AY-RA02, 2016
Transfigurations. Booklet. Ambronay Éditions, AMY 039, 2013
Georg Philipp Telemann. Booklet. Ambronay Éditions, AMY 302, 2012

SELECTED LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

«La natura ha più forza dell’arte» Ornamentation and the Interpretation of Musical Nature in Giuseppe Tartini. International Virtual Conference Philosophical Hermeneutics and Musical Interpretation 19 – 21 June 2026. Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
Regole per sonare il violino in a True Taste: Ornamentation and Interpretation in Geminiani and Tartini. Beyond Corelli: Geminiani and the Instrumental Music of his Time Lovere (BG), Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini. 5-7 June 2026
Tartini’s Ornamentation through the Figlie of the Pietà. From instrumental virtuosity to vocal practice in the Pietà manuscripts. “Con il signor prencipe per il mio scolare” Pupils, Patrons, Printers and Violin Culture in 18th-Century Europe. International Conference.University of Graz. 19 – 21 May 2026.
Un viaje sonoro: claves de la interpretación en el barroco y el clasicismo. Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Melilla. Masterclass. 30 de abril de 2026
Between Vivaldi and Tartini: Ornamentation, Cadenzas and Stylistic Transmission in the Libro d’Anna Maria and Libro di Chiara. University of Milan (The Violin Schools in Eighteenth-century Europe. International Workshop, 9-3 December 2025)
Baroque improvisation at Podium Auxesis. November 8 2025.
Vivaldi e l’ornamentazione – Tra la Pietà veneziana e la Dresda di Pisendel. June 6, 2025, organized by the Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute in Venice, is part of the annual thematic program Casanova, Venice and Europe
Vivaldi, 1678 – 2024. Obra y legado del Prete Rosso.12 de agosto de 2024. Academía de música antigua de Medellín.

Presentación | Selección discográfica y bibliográfica

Torelli in the Pisendel Collection. Giuseppe Torelli and the music of his time in Bologna, 28-29-30 September 2023. Conservatorio “G. B. Martini”, Bologna.

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Nardini’s Italian style of ornamentation vs German style. Convegno internazionale di studi dedicato a Nardini nel terzo centenario della nascita. Università Roma Tre

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“Descubriendo al compositor. De como algunos manuscritos de Dresde dejaron de ser anónimos“, at the IV Jornades d’Investigació Artística en Música dels Pirineus, 18 June 2023

Programa

Ornamentando en los tiempos de Herrando. Jornadas “José Herrando” de Castellón

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“Wild and eccentric”. Ornamenting in the style of Vivaldi’. “LOOK AGAIN” | Early Music Seminar. Royal Conservatory of The Hague

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New approaches to ornamentation in the 18th century though the “working manuscripts” of Johann Georg Pisendel. The 19th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music 2021.

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«Un gusto barbaro». Vivaldi’s Italian ornamentation style versus Quantz’s German mixed style. Lecture and workshop at Mozarteum, Salzburg, 9th June, 2021

Presentation

Ornamentation sources on how [not] to follow the rules. The embellishments of Pisendel in the Schrank II, with a special focus on Vivaldi. Lecture and workshop at Mozarteum, Salzburg, 5th June, 2019

Abstract

Pisendel ornamenta Vivaldi. IX Coloquio Interno de Exposición de Avances de Tesis del Posgrado en Artes de la Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico, 28th May 2019

The annotations of Johann Georg Pisendel in the Dresden manuscripts: an open window to the improvisation in the first half of the 18th century. The 18th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music will be hosted by the Musicology and Cultural Heritage Department of Pavia University in Cremona, from Tuesday 10 July to Sunday 15 July, 2018.

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Pisendel’s annotations in the Concerto for two violins RV 507 by Vivaldi: an open window on improvisation in the work of the “Red priest”. International Conference “Musical Improvisation in the Baroque Era” Lucca, Complesso Monumentale di San Micheletto, 19-21 maggio 2017

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New discoveries of Vivaldi in Dresden: trio sonata RV 820, sonata RV 205/2 and a new vivaldian cadenza in an anonymous concerto. Ex umbra in solem: On musical works that have been lost, rediscovered or deserve reassessment Haliciana Schola Cantorum, L’viv, Ukraine, November, 2017

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Nuevos Descubrimientos Vivaldianos en Dresde, metodología de la identificación. Lecture at Conservatorio Superior de Música de Vigo, Spain, February, 2017

New discoveries of Vivaldi – Attribuzione definitiva di composizioni dubbie ad Antonio Lucio Vivaldi. Lecture at Conservatorio Statale di Musica, Cagliari, Italy, March, 2016

New discoveries of Vivaldi in Dresden. Lecture-Recital at Festival Musica Antica, The Hague, The Netherlands, September, 2016

IDENTIFICATIONS

Some works that I have managed to name:

Vivaldi – Violin Sonata RV 829
Vivaldi – Triosonata for violin, violoncello and continuo RV 820
Vivaldi – A new violin cadenza. See: Una nuova cadenza vivaldiana in un concerto per violino anonimo – A New Vivaldi Cadenza in an Anonymous Violin Concerto. Javier Lupiañez – FabrIzIo Ammetto. Studi Vivaldiani 17.
Vivaldi – Basso part of Vivaldi concerto RV 205 (second movement).inserted in an anonymous sonata Mus.2-R-8,50.
Vivaldi? – Sonata for violin and continuo RV 205/2.
Pisendel – Three new violin sonatas.
Corelli – Sonata Op. 5 No. 9 by Corelli transcribed for organ in the Ms. HC449c2/C28 (pp. 35-43). Foundling Museum, Gerald Cock Handel Collection
Colombi or Lonati movement inserted in a Bitti Sonata. Mus.2362-R-2. The 3rd movement of a sonata by Bitti TalB SV10 can be also found in Colombi’ sonata contained in Libro XIV.
Leclair – A movement of a Leclair Sonata (Op. 1, No. 7/3) inserted in the anonymous sonata Mus.2-R-8,33.
Maccarani – A movement form Trattenimenti musicali Op. 1 by Stefano Alli Maccarani inserted in an anonymous sonata from the Schrank II, Mus.2-R-8,19.
Westhoff – Imitatione delle Campane inserted as last movement in an anonymous sonata. Mus.1-R-70. See: Kees Vlaardingerbroek – Michael Talbot, Vivaldi, Bariolage and a Borrowing from Johann Paul von Westhoff – Vivaldi, il bariolage e un imprestito da Johann Paul von Westhoff in Studi Vivaldiani (18). See p. 97.

EDITIONS

Check my editions at Snakewood

other editions

Antonio Vivaldi. Sonata RV 829 for violin and continuo (edited by Javier Lupiáñez Ruiz and Fabrizio Ammetto). Ricordi, 2024
Charles Henri Blainville. Suite Turque. Ed. Musica Repartita, Utrecht, 2016.
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi. Trio Sonata RV 820, critic edition. Musedita, 2016.
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi. Sonata RV 205/2, critic edition. Musedita, 2016.

IMSLP

Historical Ornamentation Sources Catalog

Created and curated by Javier Lupiáñez, the Historical Ornamentation Sources Catalog is an open-access database that catalogs musical sources from the 17th to early 20th centuries, with a special focus on historical ornamentation and improvisation practices. The catalog is built on two key principles: providing practical, organized access to sources by linking to external catalogs and libraries and categorizing them by author, date, or typology. Additionally, it fosters a dynamic, participatory platform that encourages community involvement, enabling users to contribute new sources and continuously improve the catalog.

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