Domenico Morgante


Domenico Morgante is an Italian musicologist and organist.

Biography

Morgante was a researcher at the University of Bari from 1984 to 1986. He wrote lexicographical articles on Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giorgio Lapazaya, Jacquet de Berchem. He directed the restoration of important historical keyboard instruments, collaborating on several occasions with the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. Since its founding in 1985 he has been the Director of the Mediterranean Institute of Musicology. For his outstanding teaching in the field of the organ he was awarded the Premio Abbiati Italian Music Critics under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic. In 2013 he received awards from the art world and from the Albanian academic world.