Purposes and Objectives

1992 established from a Swiss initiative, the International Rosetti Society (IRG) made it its purpose to make generally known again the music of Antonio Rosetti (1750-1792) through the promotion of concert and CD performances as well as publications.

The IRG stands under the protection of His Highness Prince zu Oettingen-Wallerstein. It numbers at this time ca. 190 members from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Venezuela, the United States, and Japan. Included among its membership are musicians and musicologists, journalists, librarians, instrument builders, and those who simply share a general interest in Rosetti and his music.

In recent years the IRG has contributed both artistically and organizationally to numerous concert performances in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Czech Republic. Since 2000, an annual event has been the ROSETTI-FESTTAGE in the Ries..

In past years numerous CD releases on labels such as Arte Nova, Koch-Schwann, MDG, Naxos, RBM, tacet and Teldec have been produced with the support of the IRG. Currently available Rosetti CDs are listed under Music Editions – CDs – Bibliography.

Between 2000 and 2019 the IRG has published 20 issues of the journal Rosetti-Forum, which documented the state of research and provided information about items of current interest (concert venues, new books, CDs and musical editions). Instead of this since 2022 Rosetti-Nachrichten are released following basically the same purpose electronically but in a shorter form. The issues of Rosetti-Forum and Rosetti-Nachrichten that have appeared are found as full texts under Publications.

Since November 2001 the IRG has published through Amadeus in Winterthur works of Rosetti in practical editions. A list of the issues that have already appeared is found under Publications.

   Statutes of IRG