Thirty years after the death of Nino Rota and fourteen years since the creation of the Rota Archive at the Giorgio Cini Foundation, this “critical catalogue of the compositions for concerts, chamber music and music for theatre” is the result of another decade of work in Rota studies. Following on from the previous publications on his fi lmography, fi lmrelated documents and the proceedings of conferences held twenty years after Rota’s death, this book is the most complete and updated “map” of the Milanese composer’s work outside film music. Thanks to comparative work on all the sources found in the Archive (correspondence, reviews, tapes, and of course, original scores, which are described and highlighted in this Catalogue), the book enables readers to reconstruct the timeline for a corpus of works which Nino Rota always considered could be modifi ed, re-elaborated and re-used, and which he thus mainly kept in a state of very vital disorder.