da Enrico Melozzi | 21/10/2026 | Melos, Officina
François Boucher, Renaud et Armide, 1734. Paris, Musée du Louvre. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Paris, 15 February 1686, Théâtre du Palais-Royal. The Académie royale de musique gives Lully’s Armide for the first time, before the Grand Dauphin, with sets... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 17/10/2026 | Melos, Officina
John Broadwood & Sons, grand piano, London, 1827. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Augsburg, 17 October 1777. Mozart is twenty-one, on his way to Mannheim and Paris, and writes to his father a letter full of enthusiasm... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 13/10/2026 | Melos, Officina
Michael Praetorius, trombones from the Syntagma musicum, 1614-1620. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).London, Saturday 1 September 2012. In the orchestra pit of the Royal Opera House, Wagner’s Die Walküre is in rehearsal. Christopher Goldscheider, the orchestra’s... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 09/10/2026 | Melos, Officina
Bassoon from the musical instrument collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Biebrich, on the Rhine, 1831. Carl Almenräder is getting on for forty-five, plays the bassoon in the court orchestra of the Dukes of... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 05/10/2026 | Melos, Officina
Double bass and bow attributed to Charles Plumerel, Mirecourt, 18th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Paris, 1844. Hector Berlioz sends the Grand traité d’instrumentation to press, and, having reached the last rung of the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 02/10/2026 | Melos, Officina, Storia e tecnica
Antonio Stradivari in an imaginary nineteenth-century portrait. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).The most famous man in the history of violin making is a visual phantom. Antonio Stradivari died in Cremona in 1737 after some seventy years of work and about a...
