Abstract
On December 19-20, 2011, the Moscow Conservatory hosted an international scientific conference "Music of Italy: from the Renaissance to the New Time" timed to coincide with the Year of Russian Culture and the Russian Language in Italy and the Year Italian culture and the Italian language in Russia. The conference was attended by Russian scientists, representatives of the Moscow and Novosibirsk Conservatories, the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, the State Institute of Art Studies, as well as foreign guests: Professor Diego Fratelli (Milan) and Pierre Giuseppe Gillio (Novara).