Museo dell’Accademia Filarmonica

The Philharmonic Academy, founded in 1666, with its three centuries is a true landmark in the field of European musical institutions. Of the great musicians who passed through here (by Mozart, Rossini, Arcangelo Corelli Carlo Broschi said Farinelli and many others) often retains the Academy scores and autograph documents, portraits and musical instruments that were owned by them or used in academic meetings . Located on the third floor of the Palazzo Carrati, historic home of the Academy since its founding, the museum houses a rich collection of paintings, a photo, a collection consisting of objects of different nature, as well as some of stringed instruments and wind instruments used by early years Academy and received later from the eighteenth century. to oggi.Il museum heritage can be divided into two main sections: the first is formed by the picture gallery, photo library and various objects and includes paintings and photographs relating mainly people linked Academy (cardinal protectors, musicians, musicologists, vocalists and instrumentalists from sec. seventeenth to the twentieth), as well as items related to their activities (signs, banner, ancient tools, stationery, personal effects etc..). The second section is represented by the collection of musical instruments: they are preserved some of stringed instruments and wind used in the early years of the Academy (organ Traeri 1673 consort of flutes sixteenth of unique features, horn, viola da gamba, lute ) and a fair amount of tools received later, from sec. XVIII today (viola d'amore, clutch, horn, flutes, clarinets, various instruments mouthpiece 800, Erard piano belonged to St. Golinelli, fortepiano said "by Rossini," piano belonged to O. Respighi, organ Santoli , various stringed instruments, ethnic instruments, etc..). Because of these characteristics, the collection can illustrate an important chapter in the institutional history of Bologna, but also the excellence of the exhibits, both in absolute terms and as it related to individual musicians, documented with archival sources academic. The museum rooms are also temporary exhibitions. To complement the museum on the second floor of the building houses the vast archive of the Academy.