da Enrico Melozzi | 22/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Josef Danhauser, Liszt at the Piano, 1840. Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Tuesday 9 June 1840, London, the Hanover Square Rooms. The hall where sixty-five years earlier Johann Christian Bach had begun giving his concerts is full of... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 20/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
William Hogarth, The Bad Taste of the Town (Masquerades and Operas), 1723-24. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).London, June 1727, the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket. They are giving Bononcini’s Astianatte; Caroline, Princess of Wales, is in the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 19/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Ernst Oppler, Arthur Nikisch. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Berlin, 10 November 1913. Arthur Nikisch and the Berlin Philharmonic walk into a studio that has nothing an orchestra needs: no hall, no acoustics, no room. A metal horn juts out of one wall, and... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 17/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
On the night between 26 and 27 January 1967, while the Sanremo Festival was celebrating its rite, by now a national holiday, in the city of flowers, room 219 of the Hotel Savoy became the stage of one of the deepest wounds in Italian music: at the age of twenty-eight,... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 17/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Teofil Kwiatkowski, The Last Moments of Fryderyk Chopin. Warsaw, Fryderyk Chopin Institute. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Paris, Place Vendôme, the night of 16 to 17 October 1849. In the apartment at the Hôtel Baudard de Saint-James, where he moved only a few... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 16/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Gesualdo, Irpinia, 1611. The Neapolitan printer Giovanni Giacomo Carlino moves his workshop into a room in the prince’s castle, at the top of the village. From those presses, in the same year, come three books: the fifth and sixth books of madrigals for five...
