da Enrico Melozzi | 09/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Photographic portrait of Camille Saint-Saëns. Paris Musées, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0).9 March 1886 is Mardi Gras, and in Paris, at the home of the cellist Charles Lebouc, a Carnival evening of music is under way. On the programme is a novelty nobody has yet heard, a... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 08/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Albrecht Dürer, The Death of Orpheus, 1494. Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).On 23 February 1607 Carlo Magni, a gentleman of the court of Mantua, writes to his brother in Rome that the following evening the prince will have a... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 06/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
by Antida Carelli The echo of the Notte dei Serpenti 2026 still hangs in the air of the Pescara summer. The concert-event, conceived and directed since 2023 by Maestro Enrico Melozzi, is the work of a versatile composer of Abruzzese origin whose activity ranges from... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 06/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
On 1 May 1761, in Vienna, a twenty-nine-year-old man signs fourteen clauses and with them hands himself over for thirty years. The document is the contract between Prince Paul Anton Esterházy and Joseph Haydn, hired as Vice-Kapellmeister. The text exists, has been... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 06/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
In October 1705 the organist of the Neue Kirche in Arnstadt asks for four weeks’ leave. He is twenty, his name is Johann Sebastian Bach, and in the request he justifies the trip with a formula the minutes preserve: he wants to go to Lübeck to comprehend one... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 06/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
On 19 November 1828, in a room on the second floor of Kettenbrückengasse 6 in Vienna, Franz Schubert dies. He is thirty-one years and almost ten months old. The house is his brother Ferdinand’s, where he had moved a few weeks earlier because the doctor had...
