THE NEAPOLITAN PIANO SCHOOL: FROM ITS ORIGINS TO VINCENZO VITALE

This article is a journey through the Neapolitan keyboard tradition, from its origins to the school of Vincenzo Vitale, whose students still spread his music and pedagogical legacy all over the world, in music academies and on concert podiums. Nearly five hundred years of music: from the pre-classic harpsichord masters and composers, through the development of the music tradition in Neaples over the centuries, specifically the evolution of its music conservatories and their first piano teachers, to the fundamental pedagogues and their methods the XIX and XX centuries.