page_title: Music collections in Prato
section_title: List of musical collections
hierarchical_section_title: Music collections in Prato / List of musical collections
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Foto di Luciano Bettarini
context_page_description: Beginning with the recognition of musical collections in Prato conducted by the Center of Musical Documentation of Tuscany, it is possible to trace a synthesis of the history of the citizen’s musical production.
  Following a chronological path linked to the most important musical subjects in Prato - institutions, composers and interpreters - and studying the handwritten and printed music brought to us, we were able to delineate a historical and cultural itinerary of the pratese musical life.
context_section_description: Archivio Cicognini, address: Piazza del Collegio, 13: preserves the musical materials of the National Cicognini Boarding School: many materials for ballets and choirs (by Attilio Ciardi, Riccardo Zandonai, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart etc.) performed by the boarders, above all in the period of  1780-1870
  State Archive, address: via Ser Lapo Mazzei, 41, the institution preserves:
  Musical material of the Salvi Cristiani family
  Historic Diocesan Archive, address: via del Seminario, 28, the institution preserves:
  Historic Archive of the Music Chappell: Archive of the antique 16th century cappella (formatted from a previous 15th century), comprising a lot of materials, including autographs, of the Kappelmeister and of the most performed composers of the various periods of time. You can find music by Giovan Carlo Maria Clari, Giuseppe Becherini, Giuseppe Gherardeschi, Augusto Borgioli, Luigi Borgioli, Attilio Ciardi, Cesare Ciardi
  Cathedral's Archive of the Chapter: a part consists of the archive of the parte Duomo di Prato (preserved also in the Roncioniana Library)
  Archivio Giovanni Castagnoli: Personal archive of the composer and organist, Giovanni Castagnoli
  Musical material of the archives of the parishes: gathering together the belongings of the various parishes and diocese of Prato: many chorals (1300s), printed music from the 1600s, and Medieval codes, even from the 1200s, with musical notations.
  Guido Guasti Music Collection: contains the compositions and the documents of Guasti, organist of the Cathedral in Prato from 1939 to 1947.
  Biblioteca Roncioniana, address: piazza San Francesco: preserves many musical monographs and some printed music.
  Library of the Teatro Metastasio, address: via Benedetto Cairoli, 59: possesses many audio recordings and more than 90 books regarding musical subjects.
  Concerto Cittadino «Edoardo Chiti», address: via Giovanni Di Gherardo, 8, the institution preserves:
  Chiti Collection: archive of the Pratese band
  School of Music «Giuseppe Verdi», address: via Santa Trinita, 2, the institution preserves:
  Music Library «Luciano Bettarini», contains the collections:
  Bettarini Collection: has the private library and a large part of the archive of the Pratese master Luciano Bettarini
  Alessandro Carraresi Collection: a collection of recordings
  Adalberto Silenzi Collection: consists of many first editions of the literature regarding music critique (the collection is in part preserved also in the Lazzerini Library)
  Attilio Ciardi Collection: a collection of music and documents by Attilio Ciardi and Cesare Ciardi
  Attilio and Daniele Nuti Collection: personal archive of two composers, consisting above all of scores for voice and pianoforte of their works
  Library of the «Guido Monaco» Choir, address: via San Vincenzo: preserves the material for choral use, with a lot of handwritten and printed music mostly choral and sacred music; preserves an autograph of Attilio Ciardi dated 1899. Inside the library there is:
  Archive of the Children's Choir «Guido Monaco»
  Modern Collection of the restored music chappell of the Cathedral, located at the Church of San Francesco, address: Piazza San Francesco, 10: contains the material used (with sacred music in printed and handwritten copies of the 20th century) of the new Cappella founded in 1951
caption: Photo of Luciano Bettarini
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