da Enrico Melozzi | 01/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Francesco Guardi, “The Ladies’ Concert”, 1782. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).In 1723 a book appeared in Bologna with a combative title right on the cover: Opinioni de’ cantori antichi e moderni, o sieno...
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Adolph Menzel, “The Flute Concert of Frederick the Great at Sanssouci,” 1852. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).In 1752 a book appears in Berlin whose title, in German, means an essay on a method for playing the transverse flute. The...
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Antonio Vivaldi, “Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione”, Opus 8, Book 1. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).In 1926 the Salesian College of San Carlo, at Borgo San Martino in the province of Alessandria,...
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos, Nuove opere, Opinioni
Portrait of Pietro Mascagni. Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).More than ten million people watch the final of the Sanremo song festival. The world premiere of a new Italian opera, when there is one, is seen over three evenings by a few...
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Pier Leone Ghezzi, caricature of Francesco Gasparini. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Codici Ottoboniani latini 3113. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).In 1708 a book of just over a hundred pages appeared in Venice under the title L’armonico pratico al...
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Ascolti, Dalla biblioteca, Melos
The title page of L’estro armonico, Opus 3, printed in Amsterdam by Estienne Roger in 1711. In 1711, in Amsterdam, a collection of twelve concertos by a Venetian priest who had never been to Holland is published. It is titled L’estro armonico, Opus 3, and...