Mr. Petric's first publication The Concert Accordion - Contemporary Perspectives offers a rounded accordion history ignored by anti-historical fetish. The work introduced Giovanni Gagliardi’s forgotten 1911 treatise Manualetto del Fisharmonicista to an international readership and documented the origins of the concert accordion for the first time in the literature. Acclaimed as '...a towering achievement and a model of scholarship...'(Goldman), Petric provides evidence of forgotten treatises, correspondance, photographs, documentation of more than 60 interpretive artists and documentation of thirty-two unknown instruments and patents 1890-1950.
His Holistic Accordion - a Manifesto (2022) builds on Gagliardi's trenchant 1911 treatise and Pierre Monichon's musicology (1972) . 'Brilliantly written and theoretically astute' (Hutcheon), the theoretical work complements manufactured pioneering with perspectives of an informed interpretative art tested in an uninterrupted 35 year career in the agora.
His third book Accordion Dialogues (2025) opens fresh pathways to an interpretive art for young artists in a time of modernist uniformity in conversations with artistic companions Enrico Ceccheti, Hanna Arendt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bob Dylan, Hugo Noth and Colin Tilney among others.
Mr. Petric is committed to writing as an organic complement to his performances. His fourth book is pending.
He is published exclusively by Augemus Press, Essen, Germany, available here www.augemus.de .