AMICI DELLA MUSICA DI PADOVA - Italy

Two cultural organisations merged into the Associazione Amici della Musica di Padova fifty years ago: the Bartolomeo Cristofori Society - the concert society of the C. Pollini Music Institute founded in 1920 - and the Padua University Student Art Centre, founded in 1945. Two equally prestigious structures that ensured an important musical life in Padua with artists such as: A. Cortot, W. Gieseking, A. Rubinstein, E. Fischer, E. Petri, R. Serkin, W. Backhaus, A. Benedetti Michelangeli, W. Landowska, N. Milstein, A. Busch, J. Szigeti, J. Thibaud, Z. Francescatti, E. Feuermann, G. Cassadò, E. Mainardi, P. Fournier, I. Stern, G. Kremer, M. Pollini,  A. Brendel, S. Richter, Busch Quartet, Pro Arte Quartet, Lener Quartet, Kolisch Quartet, Budapest Quartet, Amar Quartet, Gustav Leonhardt, Frans Brüggen, Sigiswald Kuijken, Wieland Kuijken, Anner Bylsma, Hilliard Ensemble, Ton Koopman, The Gesualdo Six, Jordi Savall, …