National Museum Of Musical Instruments In Rome, Italy Editorial Image

Room dedicated to the piano built by Bartolomeo Cristofori in the National Museum Of Musical Instruments in Rome, Italy. It displays one of the rare surviving pianos built by Bartolomeo Cristofori. There are only three of Cristofori’s pianos left in the world. The one in Rome dates back to 1722, the one in New York dates back to 1720, and the other in Leipzig dates back to 1726. The piano in Rome is the best preserved of the three. This piano most likely belonged to Alessandro Marcello, who was the brother of the famous Venetian composer Benedetto..Located in the Palazzina Samoggia, formerly the “Prince of Piedmont” barracks near the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, the National Museum Of Musical Instruments houses a collection of over 3000 exquisite musical instruments.An important part of the instruments displayed origin from the collection of the important Italian lyric tenor Gennaro Evangelista Gorga 1865-1957, in art Evan.