da Enrico Melozzi | 18/10/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Richard Gerstl, Portrait of Arnold Schoenberg, Seated, 1906. Vienna, Wien Museum. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Vienna, July 1911. Arnold Schoenberg signs the preface of a book that Universal Edition is about to send to press, and at its head he places a... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 12/10/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Portrait of Giuseppe Tartini, eighteenth century. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Ancona, 1714. A violinist of twenty-two, Giuseppe Tartini, plays a double stop, two notes together, and hears a third. It does not sit above the other two, as one would expect of a... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 06/10/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
On 1 June 1581, in Florence, Vincenzo Galilei signed the dedication of a book that had almost failed to appear. He addressed it to his patron, Count Giovanni Bardi of Vernio, and put into it an outburst that no publisher today would let through. He had handed the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 01/10/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Eduard Hanslick. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Vienna, 1854. A thirty-year-old jurist on loan to music criticism, Eduard Hanslick, publishes a slim essay with a technical title, Vom Musikalisch-Schönen, On the Musically Beautiful, destined to become the most... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 27/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Johann Nikolaus Forkel. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Göttingen, 1802. Johann Nikolaus Forkel, the university’s director of music, an organist, a scholar with a mania for catalogues, publishes a little book of a hundred pages: On Johann Sebastian... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 24/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos, Opinioni
Arcangelo Corelli in the portrait by Hugh Howard. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).In 1714 an Amsterdam publisher brings out, posthumously, the twelve Concerti grossi of Arcangelo Corelli’s Opus 6. Eight years later, in 1722, Rameau’s Treatise on Harmony appears...
