Introduction In this article, we will describe in simple stages the historical period in which the fortepiano reached its maximum diffusion as an instrument favoured by the major composers and instrumentalists of the world. Although we cannot indicate the precise moment in which we switched from the intimacy of the...

Introduction In this article we will talk most practically and concisely possible about Curt Sachs (1881-1959), considered the founder of modern Organology: he investigated the main historiographical events that hinge on this discipline, and from which we draw today the results of important musicological investigations. Where to start? The introductory...

Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you in the most practical and concise way possible about one of the most influential trilogies of the Italian nineteenth century: the so-called Popular Trilogy, including Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La Traviata, written by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) over a period...

Introduction In this article, I would like to talk to you most practically and concisely possible about the work Carmina Burana, one of the most famous by Carl Orff (1895-1982). This orchestral masterpiece follows an ancient tradition: let’s take a step back and explore the origins of one of the...

Introduction In this article we will answer in the most practical and concise way possible to the question Who invented musical notes? through a historical synthesis of the main events and protagonists of the story. In particular, we will focus on the birth of note names. Who Invented Musical Notes?...

Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you in the most practical and concise way possible about the madrigal in Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), which is part of a poetic-musical genre that flourished in Renaissance Florence, more precisely in the sixteenth century. The Madrigal In The ‘ 300...

Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you about the figure of Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) and his relationship with the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Hamburg-born composer is sometimes associated with Mozart for the precocity of his talent, and we know that he was admired by...

Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you in the most practical and concise way possible about the figure of Franz Schubert (1797-1828), considered by many great musicians, including Vladimir Horowitz, the greatest compositional genius in the History of Music; we will talk about his impromptus, which...

Introduction In this article, I would like to talk to you most practically and concisely possible about the figure of Fredéric Chopin, a composer who profoundly contributed to the birth and development of contemporary pianism. I would like to spare you all those encyclopedic notions that you could find everywhere...

Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you most practically and concisely possible about František Xaver Dušek (1731-1799): given the small volume of research on the author, it may be the first time you hear him mentioned. This is due in large part to the fact that...

Introduction In this article, I would like to talk to you most practically and concisely possible about the figure of Gioachino Rossini, a composer from Pesaro. Popularly, he is not compared to the most relevant figures of the eighteenth century, such as Niccolò Paganini, because in recent years the idea...

Introduction In this article, I would like to talk to you most practically and concisely possible about Franz Joseph Haydn, Master of Ludwig Van Beethoven, who with him and Mozart composes the so-called Vienna School. When we talk about this school, we are referring not to a physical building or...

Introduction In this article we will talk about the context of birth of the Opera (otherwise called Melodrama). We will start from historical considerations to gradually understand that the emergence of such a musically complex style was not sudden, but required a long preparation that lasted several centuries. When was...

Introduction In this article I would like to introduce you most practically and concisely possible to the Italian trilogy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a person in the History of Music that needs no introduction: we will talk about the works Le Nozze Di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così Fan Tutte...

Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you in the most practical and concise way possible about the figures of Christoph Willibald Gluck, initiator of musical Classicism and opera composer of the eighteenth century, and Raineri De’ Calzabigi, poet and central figure of the processes of musical...

Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you in the most practical and concise way possible about the musician Frederick II, a side of his multifaceted personality that not everyone knows. I will try to show you in a broad way the context of the History of...

Introduction Very often those who listen to Music do not wonder why a composition is written in a certain way: the compositional phenomenon is considered popularly the product of mostly irrational decisions, which are not always translatable into words. When we answer this question in such a simplistic way, the...

Introduction In the keyboard field, the first great musician who became famous for his link with instrumental practice was Girolamo Frescobaldi. Without Frescobaldi, the piano technique we know today would not be what it is. In this article I would like to introduce you in the simplest, most concise and...

Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you in the most practical and concise way possible about the assassination of Alessandro Stradella, a famous Roman composer of the seventeenth century. I will try in the course of this page to avoid those notions that you could find...

Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you in the most practical and concise way possible about the figure of Farinelli, pseudonym of Carlo Broschi, the most famous castrated opera singer that you can meet in the pages of the History of World Music. Also because of...

Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you in the most practical and concise way possible about the figure of Robert Schumann, critic and scholar as well as composer and pianist: this fascinating figure of Music reveals the results of a marriage between letters and musical notes....

Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you in the most concise and practical way possible about the figure of Arcangelo Corelli. I will try to go straight to the point of the central issues in the author’s life and production, leaving out the dates and “catalog”...