Paolo Fabbri, born 15 October 1948, is an Italian musicologist and academic. In 1989 he was awarded the

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. He is best known for his extensive publications on the life and works of

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, and for a biography of composer

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which was first published in the Italian language in Turin in 1985 and later published by

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using an English language translation by Tim Carter in 1994. He is also the author of ''Il secolo cantante: Per una storia del libretto d'opera nel Seicento'' (Bologna, 1990). For many years he has been a Professor of Music History and Musical Aesthetics at the

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. He is the current director of the Fondazione Donizetti library in Bergamo.'' The Cambridge companion to Rossini'', Part 7, By Emanuele Senici, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pg. ix

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