Fabio Morabito

Background

About Fabio Morabito

Fabio Morabito is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Alberta. He was the Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellow in Music at the University of Oxford (2017-2020), and previously taught at Durham University and Kings College London, where he completed his PhD in historical musicology. The dissertation won the Ralph Gibson Award of the Society for the Study of French History. His earlier trainings in music and musicology took place at the University of Pavia-Cremona, in Italy, and the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, in Germany. Fabio’s research focuses on the culture of Western art music in the late 18th and early 19th century, exploring issues of canon formation, the origins of celebrity culture, as well as the usage, handling and social history of musical scores. Other interests include ideas of musical authorship and identity; music sociability; material and media cultures in the 18th and 19th centuries;"new historicism" and historiography; and the history and future of the humanities. His most recent articles are out in the 2022, 2021 and 2020 issues of 19th-Century Music, Music & Letters and the Journal of Musicology, and he is at work on a monograph entitled “Making the Modern Composer.” Fabio was the Principal Investigator of the project 19th-Century Musicians as Annotators (University of Oxford 2019-21), funded by the British Academy and fostering collaborative research between music historians, historians of the book and the British Library.