Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna

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.

Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna

The entrance to Palazzo Carrati, home of the Accademia
Motto	Unitate melos
Predecessor	Accademia dei Floridi (1615) Accademia dei Filomusi (1622) Accademia dei Filaschisi (1633)[1]
Formation	1666 (1666)[1]
Type	cultural organisation
Purpose	musical education
Headquarters	Palazzo Carrati, via Guerrazzi 13
Location	Bologna, Italy
Coordinates	44.4912°N 11.3511°E / 44.4912; 11.3511
President	Loris Azzaroni
Website	www.accademiafilarmonica.it
Formerly called	Accademia de' Filarmonici Liceo Filarmonico di Bologna Regia Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna

A. Crescimbeni – Portrait of Padre Martini
Bologna, International museum and library of music

Antiphon “Quaerite primum regnum Dei” Examination exercise of Padre Martini's pupil 14-year-old Mozart, 9 October 1770, Bologna

The Accademia de' Filarmonici was founded as an association of musicians in Bologna in 1666 by Vincenzo Maria Carrati.[2] Saint Anthony of Padua was chosen as the patron saint, and an organ with the motto Unitate melos as the emblem. Through the influence of Pietro Ottoboni, the statute of the academy was approved by Clement XI in 1716. In 1749 the Benedict XIV decreed that the Accademia could award the title of Maestro di cappella.[2]

Among the early members of the academy were Giovanni Paolo Colonna (one of the founders of 1666), Arcangelo Corelli (1670), Giacomo Antonio Perti (1688), Giuseppe Maria Jacchini (1688), Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Antonio Maria Bernacchi (1722), Giovanni Carestini (1726) and the celebrated castrato singer Carlo Farinelli (1730).

The composer and teacher Giovanni Battista Martini taught at the Accademia from 1758; his pupils included André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Josef Mysliveček, 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

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

Further reading

• Nestore Morini (1967). L'Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, 1666-1966, volume I: 'Fondazione e vicende storiche'. Bologna: Tamari.
• Laura Callegari Hill (1991). L'Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, 1666-1800. Bologna: A.M.I.S.