da Enrico Melozzi | 23/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Title page of the first Sonzogno edition of “Cavalleria rusticana”, 1890. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).On 2 January 1842 the first issue of the Gazzetta musicale di Milano appears in Milan, and the publisher is not a journalist: he is Giovanni Ricordi, the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 21/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Handwritten page of the first partimento of Book I by Fedele Fenaroli. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Few people know the name of Bonifazio Asioli today, but for half of the Italian nineteenth century harmony meant his surname: students learned from Asioli the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 18/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Johann Joseph Fux. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).No textbook, in any discipline, can boast a career like it: Johann Joseph Fux’s Gradus ad Parnassum, Vienna 1725, is still today, directly or filtered, the basis of how counterpoint is taught in half the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 17/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos, Opinioni
Fortepiano by Conrad Graf, Metropolitan Museum. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).How many notes are there in an octave? Anyone who has seen a keyboard answers twelve, and the answer has been right for about two and a half centuries. Before that, it was an open... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 14/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Interpreti, Melos
Carl Czerny. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).For generations of piano students, Czerny is a life sentence: the speed studies, the metronome drills, the calisthenics. It is a serious historical injustice, because Carl Czerny is something else entirely: he is the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 12/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
“A Concert in 1846”, caricature by Andreas Geiger from Cham. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).The caricatures of the day drew him like this: Berlioz on the podium like an artillery general, and among the instruments of the orchestra a cannon. They laughed at the...
