| Richard
Charteris is a musicologist,
writer and editor. He is Emeritus Professor in Historical
Musicology at the University of Sydney, Director
of the Centre of Early Venetian Music, a Governor
of the Dolmetsch
Foundation of Great Britain and a member of editorial boards in the USA and Europe. In 1990 he was elected a Fellow
of
the Australian
Academy of the Humanities, and in 2002 he was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in
London.
Among awards he has received is the
Centenary Medal in recognition of his
contribution
to musicology.
The field of his research is European music
of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, though
his main focus is music of the late Renaissance and
early Baroque, especially Venetian. His published
work is primarily concerned with the music of Johann
Christian Bach, Giovanni Bassano, John Coprario,
Giovanni
Croce, Alfonso Ferrabosco I and II, Domenico Maria
Ferrabosco, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli,
Adam Gumpelzhaimer,
Hans Leo Hassler, John Hingeston, Thomas Lupo, Claudio
Monteverdi and Daniel and Henry Purcell.
He has uncovered a vast quantity of unknown works
and sources and produced many research
publications
including musicological studies, critical editions
and refereed articles published in Europe, the UK
and the USA. In particular, he has edited the complete instrumental music of King Charles I's favourite composer, John Coprario, an Englishman who Italianized his surname but kept his English first name, and published it in monographical critical and performing editions issued in Germany, Great Britain and North America, including one in the Musica Britannica series published in London (Royal Musical Association and Stainer & Bell). In addition, he has published a nine-volume critical edition of the complete works of the composer and espionage agent employed by Queen Elizabeth I, Alfonso Ferrabosco I (Hänssler Verlag). His twelve-volume critical
edition of the complete works of the famous Venetian
composer Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1555-1612), who had a profound impact on music history, is available from the American Institute of Musicology, which is also publishing his critical edition of the works of Giovanni Bassano, one of Gabrieli's colleagues at St Mark's.
His monographs also include an
analytical
catalogue of the works of Giovanni Gabrieli published in
New York and books on the composer Adam Gumpelzhaimer
and the collector Emil Bohn published in Germany . Other major books which he has published investigate the
music manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library,
Washington D.C (Pendragon Press); the music collection of the
Renaissance bibliophile Johann Georg von Werdenstein found in collections in Munich, Kraków, Londion and elsewhere (Harmonie Park Press); and music, sources and collections relating to Giovanni Gabrieli and his contemporaries (Ashgate).
Richard Charteris has also produced many editions using performance conventions that are used internationally by choirs
and instrumental
ensembles for concerts, recordings, broadcasts and telecasts.
Concerts of Venetian music to which he has contributed
have been televised in Europe and elsewhere.
Three of his recent publications comprise:
1. A major study issued in the UK in 2021 about the art works connected to the influential late Renaissance German composer Adam Gumpelzhaimer with significant revelations about his music treatise Compendium musicae which was used extensively throughout Europe and appeared in multiple editions over almost one hundred years, see: http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2021articles/article1.html
2. A critical edition published in the USA containing scared cori spezzati works by Giovanni Croce, another Venetian colleague of Giovanni Gabriel, with a considerable amount of new information in its written sections, see: http://www.pendragonpress.com/book.php?id=732
3. A refereed article published in Belgium about some important early music editions that he discovered were originally part of the private library of the great German theologian Martin Luther, see: http://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.IMA.1.103711
His publications
and some of his relevant recordings
appear on adjoining pages, as do the names and addresses of his
publishers.
For further information,
see the entries about him in Marquis Who’s Who
in the World
and Grove
Music Online.
The professional bodies of which
Richard Charteris is a member include:
Note: You can click on the names of any one of these
professional bodies to visit their website.
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