da Enrico Melozzi | 01/09/2026 | Dossier, Lungo formato, Melos
by Enrico MelozziOn 14 February 1791, in a castle near Gloggnitz, an hour by carriage south of Vienna, Anna von Walsegg, Countess of Stuppach, dies at twenty. Her husband Franz is twenty-eight, with a fortune, an orchestra of amateurs that plays in his house twice a... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Dossier, Il Sistema, Melos
Honoré Daumier, “Concours du Conservatoire”, lithograph, 1870. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (public domain).To get into an orchestra you play behind a screen. The candidate enters the hall, walks on a carpet so that the sound of shoes will not reveal... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Dossier, Melos
Francesco Guardi, “Il concerto delle dame,” 1782. Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Europe’s first salaried professional women musicians were Venetian orphans, and their workplace was a charitable home. The Ospedale della... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Dossier, Melos
In 1808 a twenty-three-year-old Milanese violinist opens a shop in the Contrada di Santa Margherita. His name is Giovanni Ricordi, and the trade he knows is copying music. Six years later, in 1814, he is appointed copyist to the Teatro alla Scala. At that moment,...
