Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica

The International Museum and library of music was opened in May 2004 in Palazzo Sanguinetti, in the historic center of Bologna. The exhibition winds through the splendidly frescoed halls of the main floor and traces six centuries of European music history, with over one hundred paintings, more than eighty antique musical instruments and a wide selection of historical documents of great value: treaties , volumes, opera librettos, letters, manuscripts, autograph scores, from the legacy of Father Giambattista Martini, one of the most illustrious personalities of the eighteenth century European music. Emerge for rarity and historical importance of music in the library collection Harmonice musices Odhecaton A., the first book printed music made in 1501 by Ottaviano Petrucci, the famous task of Mozart, the score of The Barber of Seville by Rossini; in the collection of musical instruments the harmony of flutes of Manfredo Settala of 1650, the "clavemusicum omnitonum" Vito Trasuntino of 1606; among the paintings J.C. Bach painted by Thomas Gainsborough, a portrait of Mozart twenties, the portrait of Farinelli by Corrado Giaquinto, the famous doors of the music library of Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Also on the main floor, the museum has an events venue for concerts, conferences, book presentations, shows and cultural events in general, while the ground floor is divided three workshops, a space temporary exhibitions, the bookshop, the laboratory - faithfully reconstructed - the famous Bolognese luthier Otello Bignami. The Museum of Music, however, is not intended only as a place of preservation and enhancement of the heritage of musical heritage, but also as contaminated land, research and promotion by providing their own spaces for cultural events "off", acting outside the schedules and traditional museum canons, the lens to be experienced as an open place, bustling, multi-purpose, attended by experts and enthusiasts alike, by citizens and tourists, by adults as by children, with one common denominator: music in all its forms and expressions.