Museum
International Museum & Library of Music
Franciscan friar's music archive of rare manuscripts, painted portraits and antique instruments.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the International Museum and Library of Music in Bologna is built around Padre Giovanni Battista Martini, an eighteenth-century friar whose brutal counterpoint exam decided who joined the city's Accademia Filarmonica, and the 319 painted faces of candidates who once sought his approval. It follows a fourteen-year-old Mozart into that locked room in 1770, sealed in with no rulebook, finishing an exam built to run for hours in a fraction of the time while his father waited helplessly outside. Find his portrait near room three and see the same face that once stared down that door.
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