da Enrico Melozzi | 03/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos, Storia e tecnica
Hans Rott (1858-1884). Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).October 1880, a train bound for Alsace. A twenty-two-year-old Viennese pulls out a revolver and aims it at another passenger who is about to light a cigar. He mustn’t, he explains with perfect calm:... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Interpreti, Melos
Arturo Toscanini, Milan, 1953. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).On 30 June 1886, in Rio de Janeiro, the audience boos the conductor and the evening is in danger of collapsing. The Italian company on tour sends to the podium its second cellist, who is nineteen,... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Interpreti, Melos
Andreas Staub, portrait of Clara Wieck-Schumann, pastel, 1838. From the Melos Library.In 1837 an eighteen-year-old pianist plays an entire programme in Berlin without a score, from memory. At the time it is an oddity bordering on arrogance: playing without the notes... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Il Sistema, Interpreti, Melos
In every opera house there is one person who knows the score better than the conductor, better than the singers and better than the director, and who does not appear on the poster. In the Italian contract the job is called maestro collaboratore, in English a... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Cross-over, Interpreti, Melos
In 1954 a thirty-three-year-old Argentine bandoneon player arrives in Paris with a scholarship and a folder full of symphonic scores. He has already won a prize at home with a symphony, he has studied with Alberto Ginastera, and he wants to become a serious composer....
