A spectacular collection of music scores, historic instruments, and opera artifacts from 1500 to the early 1900s. There is the first printed score, a 1501 Petrucci. There is the original Clavemusicum Omnitonum of 1606, with 125 keys playing 31 quarter-tones per octave. There is a portrait of Farinelli, perhaps the greatest opera singer of all time. The library was kickstarted in the 1700s by Padre Martini, a Bolognese composer and music teacher, who in addition to teaching students like Johann Christian Bach and Wolfgang Mozart, was a voracious collector of scores and books. The museum highlights the best of the extensive library. Look for unobtrusive drawers in display cases, marked only by finger-holes; a pull lights up the drawer, and reveals some precious, and light-sensitive, book within. The eight rooms of the museum are also painted with beautiful 19th century trompe l'oeil frescos. Classical music fans will go nuts.
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