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Death Anniversary: Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani — February 25, 1757

25 February 2027

Recanati

He died at Recanati in the Marche on 25 February 1757, where he had directed cathedral music for more than twenty years after earlier posts in Udine, Pesaro and Urbino. Trained in Venice, his published collection of recorder sonatas, op. 3, of 1720 concludes with a celebrated set of variations on La Follia that ranks among the finest Italian wind works of the era.

A note on this date. The exact day of birth is unrecorded in Mantuan parish registers (c. 1690); we celebrate his verified death anniversary on 25 February. We publish it with the warning rather than leave the page out, and if you can point us to a register or an archive that carries it we will confirm or correct it.

Dates verified on Treccani, DBI, vol. 7 (1970), voce "BELLINZANI, Paolo Benedetto" (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/paolo-benedetto-bellinzani_(Dizionario-Biografico)/); Mario Fabbri, Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani maestro di cappella a Recanati, Note d'Archivio, vol. 18, 1941, p. 115.

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Go on the first Sunday of the month

State museums, archaeological parks and monuments across Italy open free of charge on the first Sunday of every month. It covers state-run sites only — civic and private museums set their own prices — and there is nothing to claim: you simply walk in.

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In September, the doors that are usually shut open

For one long weekend every September, some fifty European countries run the European Heritage Days together: palaces, workshops, archives and private houses that are closed the rest of the year let visitors in, almost always for nothing. Italy sets its own dates, and they are published a few weeks ahead.

Dates, country by country →

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