Dr.
Carlo Bosi
Carlo Bosi studied History of Art, Music and Performing Arts at the Università di Bologna and completed his D.Phil. in Music at the University of Oxford. He held a series of positions at institutions across Europe before settling in Salzburg in 2010, where he led several projects as a PostDoc Researcher/Senior Scientist at the University of Salzburg, on topics including Renaissance chanson, connections between monophony and polyphony, and early Venetian operas and their links to the literary, free-thinking culture in Venice in the early 17th century. His first project at the Mozarteum, which he has led since the end of 2025, is on Antonio Caldara’s Salzburg operas (1717/27).
After completing a thesis on mathematical proportions in the motets of Guillaume Du Fay at the University of Bologna under the supervision of Prof. F. Alberto Gallo (1996), Carlo Bosi continued his academic path at the University of Oxford, where he was awarded his doctorate for a thesis on modality in the chansons of Guillaume Du Fay and Gilles Binchois. He then held research positions at the universities of Jena-Weimar, NTNU Trondheim, City University (London), Tours (Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance) and Basel. At the Paris Lodron University Salzburg, he collaborated on the project “Anleihe und Zitat monophoner Melodien im Lied um 1500” (Borrowing and Quotation of Monophonic Melodies in Song around 1500) led by Prof. Dr. Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, and led its continuation, “Anleihe und Zitat monophoner Melodien in weltlicher und geistlicher Mehrstimmigkeit um 1500” (Borrowing and Quotation of Monophonic Melodies in Secular and Sacred Polyphony around 1500). Both projects resulted in, among other things, the database http://chansonmelodies-sbg-ac.eu, which presents transcriptions with variants and concordances of all melodies and their texts.
From 2019 to 2024, he led the project ‘Frühe venezianische Oper und Literatur der Incogniti,’ (Early Venetian Opera and Literature of the Incogniti) which is in the process of being developed into a monograph for the publisher Peter Lang. He is currently pursuing his interest in opera in its cultural and literary context with a project at the Mozarteum on Antonio Caldara's Salzburg operas. He is also the contact person for the Ombuds Office for Abuse of Power and Misconduct in Musicology at the Austrian Society for Musicology (ÖGMw)
Research and teaching specialisms in detail:
- Chanson and secular polophony of the 15th and 16th centuries
- Early Venetian opera and Italian literature of the 17th century
- Music and philosophy of the Early Modern, in particular the works of Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)
- Antonio Caldara's Salzburg operas