Donizetti Museum
building
of Mercy
The characteristic Donizetti museum is located in the palace
della Misericordia, the building that overlooks
via Arena, one of the most evocative
of the ancient city. The building, located nearby
of the church and the monastery of
Santa Grata, he assumed
its current appearance in the seventeenth century, to its
Inside there is a fifteenth-century courtyard.
It is the largest baroque palace in
Bergamo. The museum is located in a
vast room on the first floor, elegantly
decorated by Vincenzo Bonomini.
To reach the Museo Donizettiano museum
we recommend taking via Donizetti,
to see on
palace of the noble Scotti family
plaque displayed in memory of the great composer
died in 1848. Also worth seeing
tomb located in the basilica of Santa Maria
Greater.
They are in the Donizetti Museum
memorabilia linked to the great musician are on display,
who composed over 70 works, including the Elixir
d'Amore in 1832 and Lucia di Lammermoor
in 1835, as well as documents, memories and
portraits. Among the most precious objects, we remember the piano.
To complete the Donizetti itinerary
it is best to do a brief one
walk, in the Borgo Canale,
beyond the walls to see the house where Gaetano
Donizetti was born into a family in 1797
very poor.
Museum
In particular, the birth of the Donizetti Museum is due to the donations made in 1906 by Baroness Giovanna Ginevra Rota Basoni Scotti and Cristoforo Scotti, which hosted Donizetti in the last years of his life. It was possible to set up in the Council Room della Misericordia Maggiore a Museum dedicated to the musician. Precious autograph manuscripts can be seen, first printed editions and Donizetti memorabilia, a collection of keyboard and string instruments and breath. The collection also preserves the fortepiano used by Donizetti, the Boesendorfer fortepiano, purchased in Vienna in 1844 by the same Maestro for the Rota-Basoni family - still functioning - and the small cello used by Alfredo Piatti.
Donizetti
Born in Bergamo on 29 November 1797 and died in Bergamo on 8 April 1848, Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, famous above all as an opera composer, he was an Italian composer, he wrote 69 operas, sacred and chamber music. Donizetti's works today normally performed in theaters around the world are The elixir of love, Lucia di Lammermoor and Don Pasquale. With lower frequency, La Fille du régiment, La Favorite, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena, Lucrezia Borgia and Roberto Devereux are staged.
It was in 1830, with Anna Bolena, written in just thirty days for the Carcano Theater in Milan,
that Donizetti had his first great international success, showing full artistic maturity.
Curious detail: after the success of Anne Boleyn, Mayr addressed him as Master.
The relationship of affection and esteem between the two composers remained strong until the death of both.
At the San Carlo Theater in Naples the premiere of Lucia di Lammermoor, with verses by Salvadore Cammarano,
it was a triumph, the work is considered a masterpiece, as usual written in a very short time,
thirty-six days. The following year Belisarius was applauded at the Fenice,
but the year was marred by the death of his father, mother and second daughter.
Two years later his third daughter and his wife would also be missing, who died of cholera on 30 July 1837.
In 1843 he took charge of the French performance of Linda di
Chamounix and Maria di Rohan ended: these were the last moments of great creative fervor, then the disease took its toll
upper hand.
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In particular, the birth of the Donizetti Museum is due to the donations made in 1906 by Baroness Giovanna Ginevra Rota Basoni Scotti and Cristoforo Scotti, which hosted Donizetti in the last years of his life. It was possible to set up in the Council Room della Misericordia Maggiore a Museum dedicated to the musician. Precious autograph manuscripts can be seen, first printed editions and Donizetti memorabilia, a collection of keyboard and string instruments and breath. The collection also preserves the fortepiano used by Donizetti, the Boesendorfer fortepiano, purchased in Vienna in 1844 by the same Maestro for the Rota-Basoni family - still functioning - and the small cello used by Alfredo Piatti.
Born in Bergamo on 29 November 1797 and died in Bergamo on 8 April 1848, Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, famous above all as an opera composer, he was an Italian composer, he wrote 69 operas, sacred and chamber music. Donizetti's works today normally performed in theaters around the world are The elixir of love, Lucia di Lammermoor and Don Pasquale. With lower frequency, La Fille du régiment, La Favorite, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena, Lucrezia Borgia and Roberto Devereux are staged.