BOLOGNA WHERE HE PLAYS – International museum and library of music, Bologna

Many reasons for an unforgettable visit. In the music library are nearly 100,000 documents: scores, books, letters, printed books and manuscripts. A unique heritage of five centuries of music. Mozart met in Bologna Father Giambattista Martini, a great theorist and composer. Wolfgang spends the summer of 1770 to study with his teacher. Watch music straight in the eye? In Bologna you can. At the Museum of music you can find the perfect keyboard: the original Clavemusicum Omnitonum of 1606 has 125 keys arranged in 5 different files. Did you know that the inventor of the printing music press is an Italian? Ottaviano Petrucci produced in Venice in 1501 the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A. “One God, one Farinelli”, it was the battle cry of the London fans of the man who was considered the greatest opera singer of all time: Carlo Broschi as Farinelli. International museum and library of music waiting for you: Strada Maggiore, 34 Bologna. http://www.museibologna.it/musicaen/percorsi/65348