da Enrico Melozzi | 23/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).In the autumn of 1777 Mozart, twenty-one, passes through Augsburg on the journey to Paris and truly gets to know, for the first time as an adult, his cousin Maria Anna Thekla, daughter of... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 21/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Giacomo Puccini. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Giacomo Puccini was the first composer in history to wreck a car, which hardly surprises anyone who knows the man: he was the most modern of Italian musicians even in what he spent his money on, motorboats,... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 20/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos, Storia e tecnica
Franz Liszt, photographed by Nadar, March 1886. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).The term was coined not by a music journalist but by a poet: Lisztomania, wrote Heinrich Heine in 1844, searching for a clinical word for a phenomenon with no precedent, one that the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 18/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos, Storia e tecnica
Maria Malibran. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).In 1836 Maria Malibran was the most famous singer in the world, and she had won that world inch by inch: daughter of the tenor and teacher Manuel García, who had trained her with legendary severity, she had debuted... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 18/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Giuseppe Verdi, pastel by Giovanni Boldini (1886). Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).June 1832. An eighteen-year-old from Busseto, supported in his studies by a provincial patron and by the coffers of a local congregation, presents himself at the Royal... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 17/09/2026 | Interpreti, Melos, Storia e tecnica
Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).In 1737 the most famous and highest-paid singer in the world, Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli, thirty-two years old, at the peak of a career that had sent Naples, Vienna and London into...
