da Enrico Melozzi | 09/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Niccolò Paganini. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Niccolò Paganini died in Nice on 27 May 1840, in a room overlooking the harbour, without the sacraments. In his last days, eaten away by the throat disease that had taken his voice, he sent the priest away more... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 09/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
George Frideric Handel, portrait by Balthasar Denner. National Portrait Gallery, London, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Hamburg, 5 December 1704, the opera house on the Gänsemarkt. On stage is Johann Mattheson’s Cleopatra, and Mattheson, twenty-three, is... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 08/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).St Petersburg, 28 October 1893: Tchaikovsky conducts the premiere of his Sixth Symphony, the Pathétique, which ends as no symphony had ever ended, with a slow movement that dies away in the low register.... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 07/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
The Sistine Chapel. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere was the most protected piece in Europe. It was performed only in the Sistine Chapel, only during Holy Week, by the light of candles snuffed out one by one; tradition has it... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 06/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
The dancers of the premiere of The Rite of Spring in costumes by Nicholas Roerich, 1913. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).The theatre was brand new, opened two months earlier: the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, reinforced concrete and bas-reliefs, the most modern in... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 05/09/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Robert Schumann, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1839. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Düsseldorf, Carnival Monday, 27 February 1854. While the city is out in the streets in costume, Robert Schumann leaves his house in a dressing gown and slippers, in the rain,...
