Boccherini Complete Edition

directed by Fulvia Morabito
(Designated Italian National Edition – Ministerial Decree of 27 April 2006)

Scholarly Committee:
Sergio Durante, Roberto Illiano (Secretary Treasurer), Miguel Ángel Marín, Fulvia Morabito (President), Rudolf Rasch, Luca Lévi Sala, Massimiliano Sala, Andrea Schiavina, Christian Speck

Luigi Boccherini’s Opera Omnia was designated Italian the National Edition by Ministerial Decree of 27 April 2006. It aims to publish the critical edition of the complete works by one of the most prominent and prolific European composers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Boccherini’s complete works is divided into 32 volumes — 9 of which will be dedicated to vocal music, 3 to opera and ballet production and 20 to instrumental works — with another 13 volumes devoted to spurious works, documents and iconography, letters and a thematic catalogue. The catalogue will be published as the final volume of the edition, when the fundamental work on the Boccherini’s sources will have been concluded; so, it will become the most complete and detailed reference point for those wishing to study the composer’s oeuvre.
Each volume of the critical edition includes a historical-analytical Introduction, the music itself, and the Critical Commentay (including the Description and Criticism of the Sources, and the List of Variants).
At the same time, practical editions also are produced, with the express aim of making the scores usable for performance. They include scores for each composition, separate instrumental parts and, finally, the piano reductions of the concertos for solo instrument and orchestra; orchestral parts are available on hire.