Dinko Fabris is an Italian musicologist. He specializes in lute music, the music of Naples, and Italian music in general, having written books on Italian composers such as Andrea Falconieri, Andrea Gabrieli, Francesco Provenzale and Francesco Cavalli.^[1] He holds teaching posts at the Conservatory of Bari and the University of Basilicata, and was president of the International Musicological Society from 2012 to 2017.

Dinko Fabris attended the Conservatorio di Verona to study lute, followed by study at the University of Bologna for Italian literature and musicology. He received a PhD from the Royal Holloway, University of London. A visiting professor at the University of Paris, University of Melbourne and University of Ljubljana, Fabris has received fellowships from the University of Melbourne and the Warburg Institute. He teaches at the Conservatory of Bari, and since 2001 at the University of Basilicata as well.^[1]

Fabris has advised on numerous scholarly music editions, such as the Opere di Francesco Cavalli and the New Gesualdo Edition. He is a music consultant for the Pontifical Council for Culture and was president of the International Musicological Society from 2012 to 2017.^[2]

Fabris' speciality is on lute music and the music of Naples.^[1] He has also published books on a variety of Italian composers, including Andrea Falconieri, Andrea Gabrieli, Francesco Provenzale and Francesco Cavalli. Other publications include a survey on the music of Ferrera and Henry Purcell, as well as over 80 articles.^[1] His better known works include Music in Seventeenth-Century Naples (2007) and a 2016 book on Handel's Partenope.^[2]

• Fabris, Dinko (2007). Music in Seventeenth-Century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624–1704). Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7546-3721-9.
• ——; Murata, Margaret (2015). Passaggio in Italia: Music on the Grand Tour in the Seventeenth Century. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 978-2-503-53568-5.

• Fabris, Dinko (1992). "Vita e opere di Fabrizio Dentice, nobile napoletano, compositore del secondo Cinquecento" [Life and works of Fabrizio Dentice, Neapolitan nobleman, composer of the second half of the sixteenth century]. Studi musicali (in Italian). 21: 61–113.
• —— (1993). "Il Ruolo di Napoli Nella Tradizione del Ricercare in Partitura: Una Sconosciuta Raccolta di Fabrizio Dentice Del 1567?" [The Role of Naples in the Tradition of Score Research: An Unknown Collection by Fabrizio Dentice from 1567?]. Revista de Musicología (in Italian). 16 (6): 3293–3308. doi:10.2307/20796935. JSTOR 20796935.
• —— (1998). "La musica sacra di Francesco Provenzale" [The sacred music of Francesco Provenzale]. Analecta Musicologica (in Italian). 30: 323–372.
• Veneziano, Giulia Anna Romana; Di Benedetto, Renato; Fabris, Dinko (2001). "Naples". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.42068. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
• —— (August 2009). "Music and Gesture in Caravaggio's Paintings: A Film". Early Music. 37 (3): 521–523. JSTOR 40390811.
• —— (February 2013). "Reviving early opera: the past as progress". Early Music. 41 (1): 33–34. JSTOR 43306792.
• Fabris, Dinko (2019). "Alessandro Scarlatti". Oxford Bibliographies: Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/OBO/9780199757824-0266. ISBN 978-0-19-975782-4. (subscription required)

• Dinko Fabris's profile at the Academia Europaea