Essays

Writ­ings by Har­ri­et St. Clair Jones on the life of F. P. Ric­ci and his Recueil de Con­nais­sances Ele­men­taires pour le Forte-piano:

Francesco Pasquale Ricci—An Enlight­ened Music Master
F. P. Ric­ci was born to a pros­per­ous mer­chant fam­i­ly on May 17, 1732, in the Ital­ian city of Como, locat­ed on the bor­der of the Swiss Alps. Upon com­ple­tion of a lib­er­al edu­ca­tion, Ric­ci stud­ied music and vio­lin with Giuseppe Vig­nati, the Mae­stro di Cap­pel­la for the Ducal Palace of Milan… Read more

The Recueil and Its Transformations
In this sec­tion I will present evi­dence of how com­po­si­tion­al cred­it of Francesco Pasquale’s Recueil was mis­at­trib­uted by the pub­lish­er LeDuc. The Recueil’s his­to­ry, and recent schol­ar­ly writ­ings, will pro­vide the  proof… Read more

My Search for F. P. Ricci’s Recueil
An email inter­view with Har­riet St. Clair Jones by Mari­na Riboni, Reporter at La Provin­cia di Como, Italy

Ital­ian trans­la­tions-By Gabriel­la Einaga
Francesco Pasquale Ricci—Un inseg­nante di musi­ca illuminato
Il Recueil e le sue trasformazioni