da Enrico Melozzi | 10/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Johann Mattheson. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Yesterday we left him with a sword broken on Handel’s button. But Johann Mattheson deserves to be remembered for what he did with the pen: in 1739 he published in Hamburg Der vollkommene Capellmeister, the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 09/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos, Opinioni
A page from the Graduale Aboense, 14th century. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).There is one date, just one, that the history of music can state with notarial certainty: Christmas Day 1198, in the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, when a second voice joined the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 07/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Leopold Mozart. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).The year 1756 was a good one for Leopold Mozart, violinist at the Salzburg court: in January his seventh child, Wolfgang, was born, and his Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule, the attempt at a fundamental... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 05/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).For a century, anyone in Europe who wanted to learn a keyboard instrument started from a single book: the Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen, the essay on the true way of playing the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 03/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Jean-Philippe Rameau, portrait attributed to Jacques Aved. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).The first sentence is a declaration of war: music is the science of sounds. It opens the Traité de l’harmonie that Jean-Philippe Rameau published in Paris in... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 02/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos, Opinioni
Apollo with the lyre, Attic kylix of the fifth century BC. Delphi Archaeological Museum, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).There is a black hole at the origin of European culture, and almost nobody looks at it. The Greeks of the fifth century, the people who gave...
