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About Federico Militello
In the winter of 1768, while transcribing a damaged manuscript of C.P.E. Bach’s *Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen*, Federico Militello noticed inconsistencies in the ornamentation instructions across three surviving copies, differences not attributable to scribal error but to evolving regional performance conventions. This observation sparked his lifelong project: mapping how tempo, articulation, and figured-bass realization shifted between Hamburg, Vienna, and Naples within a single generation. His 1774 treatise *De Modis Clavicularum* didn’t just codify rules, it treated keyboard practice as a dialectical art, where fingering choices implied harmonic hierarchy and pedal use revealed rhetorical intent. Militello insisted that a trill wasn’t merely decorative but syntactic: its placement and duration could invert the perceived dominant-tonic relationship in a phrase. He trained students to hear counterpoint not as stacked lines but as choreographed gestures, each hand embodying a distinct social voice in dialogue. His surviving notebooks contain over 200 annotated sonatas, each marked with marginalia in Latin, Italian, and ciphered shorthand only deciphered in 2019.
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- “How did you reconcile Scarlatti’s Neapolitan fingerings with Viennese touch?”
- “What does your ciphered shorthand in the 1772 Haydn sonata annotations mean?”
- “Why did you reject the term 'adagio' in favor of 'gravitas moderata'?”
- “Can you demonstrate how a mordent alters harmonic function in a minor-key variation?”