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tipografia metropolitana bologna - september 2015
The church boasts a choir by Frà Damiano da Bergamo, created between 1528 and 1551. Described by contemporaries as the eighth
wonder of the world, it is one of the last intarsiate choirs of the late
Renaissance. Splendid still life paintings of musical instruments
decorate the lectern for the great choir books (some dating back to
the 14th century can be seen in the Museum).
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named Unesco creative city of music, both for its
past excellence and for the great variety of today’s
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San Colombano is composed of a number of buildings aggregated
over the centuries starting from around the year 610. The complex
houses the collection of ancient musical instruments of Maestro Luigi
Ferdinando Tagliavini, a musicologist and musician born in Bologna
and internationally known. It is a rich collection of harpsichords,
spinets, pianos, clavichords, wind instruments and a group of automatic instruments. Unique instruments, many of them richly decorated according to the landscape painting tastes of the 17th and the
18th centuries and all in perfect working order. On the third floor there
is the library of the Bolognese musicologist Oscar Mischiati with more
than ten thousand volumes. In the Oratory there is an impressive cycle of frescoes by the best apprentices of the Carracci.
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Multimedia library offering a wide selection
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Ottorino Respighi’s native house, via Guido Reni, 8
Private house, not open to public.
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Gaetano Donizetti’s house, via Pepoli, 1
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Private house, not open to public.
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Pepoli Palace, Museum of the history of Bologna, via Castiglione, 8
via Rizzoli
Museum of the history, culture and changing life of Bologna,
including two rooms dedicated to music.
Piazza
Maggiore
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Archiginnasio Palace, piazza Galvani, 1 via A. Costa
S. Isaia
The great hall of the law students was renamed “Stabat Mater”,
to celebrate the work of sacred music by Rossini of 1842, first
directed by the already famous Donizetti.
Lucio Dalla’s house, via D’Azeglio, 15
Private house, not open to the public.
Personal Residence of Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli, via
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Father G. B. Martini’s native house, via Pietralata 57
Private house, not open to public.
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Rich collection of instruments, including a section dedicated
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Certosa monumental cemetery, via della Certosa, 18
Piazza Maggiore 1/e
In the Cemetery there are the tombs of Farinelli and Respighi
Aeroporto G. Marconi, via Triumvirato 84
and the funerary monument of the Rossini family, where Isabella Colbran, Gioachino’s wife, is also buried.
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The jazz craze reached Bologna in the late Thirties, and after the Second
World War it developed an original style thanks to the passion and the
enthusiasm of some university students, themselves excellent amateur
jazz players and to the foundation of various associations and clubs. In
1952 the Superior Magistratus Ragtime Band was founded as University
“band”, which later changed to its present name,of the Dr Dixie Jazz
Band. This “amateur” jazz band (even if artists like Henghel Gualdi, Lucio
Dalla and Pupi Avati where members) gets together since 1972 at the
Cantina in C. Battisti street for unscheduled performances but open to
the public. The band proposal is Traditional and Dixieland high level jazz
music; the group has indeed taken part in many important jazz festivals,
and they had the chance to perform with world-famous jazz musicians
like Louis Armstrong and Gerry Mulligan.
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In this monastery Giovan Battista Martini spent his life as a man of the
Church and as music scholar, and was buried in 1784, as an inscription over the first arcade to the left of the church reminds us. The
music collections he gathered here, are today kept inside the Music
Museum. His wide knowledge attracted students such as W.A. Mozart and J. Christian Bach, son of famous Sebastian. In his cell, unfortunately since demolished, he used to receive Italian and European
maestros visiting the city.
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Piazza San Domenico, 13
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Member of the UNESCO
Creative Cities Network since 2006
1. Basilica of San Petronio
Piazza Maggiore
The musical chapel of San Petronio, the most important in Bologna,
was founded in 1436 by the Pope Eugenio IV and soon became famous all around Europe. The inlaid choir by Agostino de’ Marchi and
the illuminated manuscripts describe well the uninterrupted musical activity which had its golden age in the second part of 1600 under the direction of Cazzati, Colonna, Perti and important musicians
as Domenico Gabrielli, Vitali e Torelli. The most prestigious symbol
of the chapel is a monumental organ, built between 1471 and 1475
by Lorenzo da Prato, which is the most ancient organ still working
today. Another organ by Baldassarre Malamini (1596), which is still
in use too, and a big horseshoe-shaped choir are conserved in San
Petronio.
The most important city
bells overlooking Piazza
Maggiore have beaten the
time of civic and religious
events since the Middle
Age – outside view only -.
In 1453 the biggest bell in
Bologna (around 47 quintals) was set in the Arengo
tower in order to gather
the citizens on the occasion of social or political
events. A bell designed to
beat the hours had been
placed on the Town Hall
clock tower at the beginning of 1400. At last, a
special assembly system
was set in the bell tower
of San Petronio in 1500:
it permits the simultaneous concert (“double”)
of 4 bells which rotate
360 degrees. This specific
Bolognese belfry art has
been handed down from
father to son until nowaOrgan, Lorenzo da Prato
days.
Teatro Comunale
3. Teatro Comunale
Largo Respighi
The major City Theatre, the Teatro Comunale, designed by the
wellknown scene designer and architect Antonio Galli Bibiena,
opened with a performance of an opera by Gluck in 1763.
Different operas were performed here by Rossini as well as the
Italian premiere of The African Woman by Meyerbeer (1865) and
Don Carlos (1867) by Giuseppe Verdi, to whom the square opposite the theatre is entitled.
The Teatro Comunale is especially famous for the Wagnerian devotion of its directors (A. Mariani, l. Mancinelli, G. Martucci) who
performed almost all the Italian premieres written by the innovative German Romantic composer here. Few steps away from the
theatre (via Belle Arti), an atelier, where the Bolognese luthier
technique is still being handed down, is worth a visit; this technique came into being thanks to some German artisans who lived
in the city in the 15th century.
www.comunalebologna.it
6. Basilica of Santa Maria dei Servi
Strada Maggiore, 43
Among the many historical organs of Bologna (Churches of San Petronio, San Martino, San Procolo, San Domenico, Santa Maria della Vita,
Oratoriy of Filippini, San Michele in Bosco to name a few) is noteworthy the mechanical action pipe organ of the Basilica. It dates back to
1967 and it’s still used for concerts nowadays.
7. Church of Santa Cristina
Piazzetta Morandi, 2
4. International
Music Museum and Library
Strada Maggiore, 34
Accademia Filarmonica
5. Accademia Filarmonica
2. Conservatoire
Giovan Battista Martini
Via Guerrazzi, 13
Piazza Rossini, 2
It is a public institution founded in 1942 from the ancient Liceo Filarmonico and is entitled to the learned Bolognese Franciscan Father
G. B. Martini. It is one of the most ancient Italian conservatories and
it was the first public music school in Italy. Among its first students
there was the young Rossini in 1808-1809. Today the Conservatory
offers more than 80 subjects and workshops on bel canto, ancient
and contemporary music, analysis of modern technologies applied
on music and recently also some jazz classes.
www.conservatoriobologna.it.
The exhibition path that winds through the splendid rooms of
Sanguinetti Palace illustrates about six centuries of history of the
European music. There are over one hundred paintings of famous
musicians, a prestigious collection of antique musical instruments
integrated with a large selection of valuable historical documents,
such as treatises, volumes, opera libretti, letters, manuscripts,
original musical scores, which are part of the legacy of Padre Giovanni Battista Martini, one of the most illustrious names in the 18th
century European music world. Many unique and important works
can be admired, like the famous Harmonice Musices Odhecaton
A, the first printed book of sheet music by Ottaviano Petrucci, the
mysterious Mozart’s entrance examination (the original antiphon
he wrote to become a member of the Accademia Filarmonica), the
1600 edition of the Euridice complete collection, the original score
of The Barber of Seville by Rossini. The collection of musical instruments includes the harmony of flutes by Manfredo Settala (1650)
and the Clavemusicum of Vito Trasuntino (1606). Among the all
portraits: Vivaldi, Händel, Gluck, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi,
Wagner, the one of Johann Christian Bach by Gainsborough, the
young Mozart, the Farinelli portrait by Corrado Giaquinto and the
famous Libreria Musicale by Giuseppe Maria Crespi are noteworthy.
And finally part of the ground fl oor is dedicated to the reconstructed Ottorino Respighi luthier workshop.
The collection inherited from Padre Martini is one of the most
prestigious collections of music repertory in the world: the printed
sheet music from 1500 to 1700 are of primary importance; the actual museums selection consists of 118.000 historical documents:
6.000 manuscripts, a collection of 12.000 opera libretti and more
than 5.000 letters. The palace where Gioachino Rossini lived for
twenty years before he moved to Paris it’s in the same street
(number 26); you will easily recognize it from the Latin decoration
on the classic façade.
www.museomusicabologna.it
International Music Museum
The Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna, founded in 1666, is an institution which gathers well-known figures within the music circle
coming from all Europe. The licence issued by the Accademia had
such great prestige that in 1770 even the fourteen-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart underwent the strict entrance examination
after following Father G.B. Martini’s lessons. Among the members
of the Accademia there were other renowned personalities of the
music scene such as Farinelli, Rossini, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Liszt,
Brahms, and, in our century, honoris causa Riccardo Muti and Claudio Abbado.
www.accademiafilarmonica.it
Church of Santa Cristina
Camaldolese nuns founded the Convent of Santa Cristina “della Fondazza” in Bologna in 1247. The church we see today was built in 1602
by Giulio Della Torre, an architect belonging to Domenico Tibaldi’s
circle. The aisleless interior features a constricted presbytery which
functions as a sort of resounding chamber so as to turn Santa Cristina
into a real architectural musical instrument where the sound wafts in
with exceptional acoustic purity. It is precisely this characteristic that
gives rise to the myth of the “musician nuns”: the nuns used to sing
in the area behind the apsidal hall far from prying eyes and their voice
spread through two gratings placed above the high altar as far as the
entrance without echo or refraction effects.
The church houses the only two sculptures made by the painter Guido
Reni representing Saints Peter and Paul and a number of paintings
created by the Bolognese.
www.genusbononiae.it