Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna

International museum and library of music

Mozart, 9 October 1770, Bologna

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) - Quaerite primum regnum Dei à4, K.86 73v (1770)

Performed by Phillip W. Serna, Treble, Tenor & Bass Viols

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The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna ("philharmonic academy of Bologna"; sometimes known in English as the Bologna Academy of Music) is a music education institution in Bologna, Italy.

The Accademia de' Filarmonici was founded as an association of musicians in Bologna in 1666 by Vincenzo Maria Carrati.

Maestro di cappella.^[2]

Among the early members of the academy were

Carlo Farinelli

(1730).

The composer and teacher

Maksym Berezovsky, Stanislao Mattei (who succeeded Martini as teacher of composition), Johann Christian Bach, the noted cellist Giovanni Battista Cirri and, in 1770, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In the 19th and 20th centuries the institution was interlaced with such names as

Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Arrigo Boito, Richard Wagner, Jules Massenet, Camille Saint-Saëns, Giacomo Puccini, and also with John Field, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Anton Rubinstein, Ferruccio Busoni and Ottorino Respighi

References

^ ^a ^b Database of Italian academies: Academy full display. British Library. Accessed May 2017.
^ ^a ^b L'Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna e la sua storia (in Italian). Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna. Accessed December 2013.

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