Luca Bianchini (Sondrio, December 28, 1961) and his wife Anna Trombetta (Torino, September 11, 1964) are two Italian musicians, musicologists and music critics with degrees in musicology from the Cremona School of Palaeography and Musical Philology.
Their Mozartian investigations[1] have revealed some surprising aspects[2] about the authorship of the composer's works and have caused quite a stir in musical circles, finding either support[3] or rejection from their musicologist colleagues.
Since the late 1980s, they have been revising musical works performed in world premieres and recorded on CD, such as Cimarosa's Armida Immaginaria for the Montpellier theater and for the Valle d'Itria International Festival, Semiramide in villa and Gli Zingari for the Taranto Paisiello Festival, or Pacini's Medea broadcast by RAI and discovered Simon Mayr's first Werther in operatic form, performed at the Rossini in Wildbad Festival, recorded on CD by the Bongiovanni label.
In 2022 they were awarded the Traetta Prize "in recognition of their passion in musicological research with important contributions in the redefinition of the historiography of 18th century music".
[5] The couple have published a series of books[6] resulting from their musicological, paleological and forensic research, raising doubts about the authorship of some of Mozart's compositions.