Francesco Fontanelli, with a diploma in piano performance and a Masters in Musicology, received his Ph.D. in 2019 from the University of Pavia, defending a thesis on the genesis of Beethoven’s Quartet op. 127. His main interests are directed towards the analysis of compositional forms and techniques between the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on their relationships to aesthetics and cultural history. He has worked on Liszt, Wagner, and Puccini, and has published numerous essays on Italian composers of the ‘Generation of the Eighties’. For his monograph on Alfredo Casella’s orchestral poems, published by De Sono, he received the award “Arthur Rubinstein. Una vita per la musica giovani” (2016). He is currently a research fellow at the University of Pavia and collaborates on the project “Harmony in 20th century music”, sponsored by the Giorgio Cini Foundation of Venice and the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.