Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna

The Accademia Filarmonica was in 1666 by Count Vincenzo Maria Carrati († 1670 ) founded in Bologna.

The emergence of the Accademia Filarmonica, it emerged from the previous foundations of the " Accademia dei Floridi " ( 1615), " Accademia dei Filomusi " ( 1624/25 ) and " Accademia dei Filaschisi " ( 1633). Count Carrati bequeathed to the Accademia, which had its seat in the palace of his family, a precious organ. The Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna was, where there was no Fuerstenhof, in the rank of a court orchestra. The admission to membership was only after strict examination. The members met twice a week initially to make music together ( esercizi ) and Thursdays at the conference, where the works have been performed. Once a month, public meetings were held. The Accademia originally consisted of three sections, each composer for singers and instrumentalists. The goal was to unite Europe's best musicians in it, according to the motto Carratis, " Unitate melos ". In 1721, the Academy already counted 300 members.

Illustrious members were next to Arcangelo Corelli and Padre Martini ( of 1758 the management took over ), for example, Farinelli, Niccolò Jommelli, André Grétry, Johann Christian Bach, Karl Ditter von Dittersdorf and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The Music Library of the Accademia, the Padre Martini donated 17,000 volumes and manuscripts counts, the world's most important collections of its kind, a large proportion of stocks that are now partially in the " Museo Civico Bibliografica Musicale ", are so far ungesichtet.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, more well-known members were added, such as Gioacchino Rossini, Otto Nicolai, Giuseppe Verdi, Arrigo Boito, Richard Wagner, Jules Massenet, Camille Saint- Saëns, Giacomo Puccini, John Field, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Anton Rubinstein, Ferruccio Busoni and Ottorino Respighi.