Edited by Alessandro Monga e Davide Verga (2013)
One-volume set: score + critical commentary included pp. I-LXXXV, 1-159
NR 140739
Piano vocal score available
CP 140741
Composed in early 1731 and commissioned by the Congregazione di San Giuseppe at the Oratorio dei Filippini in Naples, the oratorio La Fenice sul rogo ovvero la morte di San Giuseppe can rightly be considered Pergolesi’s debut.
The present edition uses the autograph score (now preserved in the United States at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University) as its main source, while the extant manuscript copies (not a few, and preserved among Vienna, Brussels, Einsiedeln, London, Florence, Naples, Stockholm) serve as support to better investigate the original text.
The volume is accompanied by a Historical Introduction (reconstructing the religious and cultural context connected with the composition of the oratorio), a detailed description of all the sources examined, an Apparatus with critical notes, and indications regarding specific problems of performance practice. There is also a reproduction of the libretto and numerous images of the autograph score in facsimile.