MUSICAL SUGGESTIONS

13 - International museum and musical library

In the centre of Bologna, a music library preserves and proudly displays almost 100,000 musical documents including scores, parts, librettos, letters, printed books and manuscripts. Bologna was also the home of Padre Martini, a very well-known musician with whom Tartini was compared to for much of his life and with whom Mozart also had the opportunity to study during a visit to Italy. At the museum we can still see the study scores of the great fourteen-year-old musician.

A reconstruction of a luthier’s workshop tells us how Bologna was an important centre for the production of stringed instruments as early as 1400, an industry revived in the 20th century. In the museum there is the famous lithograph from 1824, “The dream of Tartini” by François-Séraphin Delpech, which depicts Tartini with the Devil, and which has become a true timeless icon.

Info: www.museibologna.it/musica