Casa Barezzi, Historical music museum in Busseto, Italy.

Casa Barezzi is a music museum in Busseto that preserves original items from the life of a major musical patron. The collection includes letters, portraits, manuscripts, and a piano that together document the development of a young composer in the 1800s.

Antonio Barezzi, a wealthy grocer and music enthusiast, founded the Philharmonic of Busseto in 1816 with his brother Orlando and brother-in-law Giuseppe Demaldè, with its seat in this house. In 1830 the young Giuseppe Verdi performed publicly for the first time in the Salone, where he also met Margherita Barezzi, whom he married there in 1836. Verdi later composed I due Foscari in the house, and in 1913 a marble plaque with a bronze medallion of Barezzi by Luigi Secchi was placed on the facade.

The Salone Barezzi was where musicians and music lovers gathered regularly for performances and conversations. The space shows how a wealthy household functioned as a meeting place for musical exchange and artistic discussion.

The museum occupies the first floor of the house at Via Roma 119, facing Piazza Giuseppe Verdi in the centre of Busseto. The Salone Barezzi on that floor is also used for concerts and cultural meetings, so parts of it may be closed to visitors during events. The library, part of the Parma library system since 2012, holds over 500 music volumes.

The fortepiano by Anton Tomaschek in the Salone Barezzi is the instrument Verdi used to compose I due Foscari; he later played Va, pensiero on it to comfort Antonio Barezzi in the final moments of his life. The room also holds a 17th-century stone fireplace and a portrait of Barezzi painted by Ghisi in 1877.