Museo Gaspare Spontini, House museum in Maiolati Spontini, Italy.
The Museo Gaspare Spontini occupies the building in Maiolati Spontini where the composer spent the last months of his life with his wife Celeste Erard. It keeps relics, memoirs, manuscripts, original furniture and paintings; on the first floor stand two mahogany fortepianos made by the Erard brothers in Paris in 1820, one grand and one table piano, with neoclassical sketches. The second floor holds objects that belonged to the musician, among them a cup bearing his effigy and another with that of Frederick William III of Prussia.
The building in Maiolati Spontini is where Gaspare Spontini, born in the village, spent the last months of his life with his wife Celeste Erard. It later became the Casa-museo Gaspare Spontini, preserving relics, manuscripts, original furniture and paintings linked to the composer.
The museum keeps personal belongings of Spontini, including a cup bearing his portrait and another showing Frederick William III of Prussia, the monarch he served as court composer in Berlin. These objects link the composer's Maiolati home to his career at the Prussian court.
The museum occupies the same building where Spontini spent his last months with his wife Celeste Erard. The Erard fortepianos are on the first floor and the composer's personal objects on the second, so visitors move between two levels.
On the second floor, among objects that belonged to the musician, are two cups: one bears the portrait of Gaspare Spontini, the other that of Frederick William III of Prussia, the monarch he served as court composer in Berlin.
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