Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions

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The first session of the Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions Branch had Re searches on Historic Collections of Conservatory Libraries as its topic. Three Italian colleagues were presenting collections from their respective institutions. The session was very well attended.

The first speaker was Marta Mancini, from the library of the Conservatorio di musica in Pesaro. She gave a description of the library and the musical culture and history of the city. The valuable library collections consist of correspondence and photographs (for example, letters from Puccini, Verdi and Crescentini), the "fondo Bodoira" (a large donation of chamber music from the age of Beethoven), ancient manuscripts and printed music, and books from the sixteenth century. Gioachino Rossini, who was born in Pesaro in 1792, is well represented in the library.

Enza Ciullo, from Benevento, spoke about "The …