The Rossini Foundation makes its collections available to scholars and is proceeding with the computerized cataloguing of all its documentary heritage, within the SBN-URB pole managed in a shared form by the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo” and the Provincial Administration of Pesaro and Urbino.

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Rossini’s autographs kept at the Rossini Foundation in Pesaro were acquired mainly through the Maestro’s bequest.

Autographs

In 1975 Maestro Vittorio Gui donated his musical collection to the Rossini Foundation; it consists of over four thousand volumes relating to the major composers who lived between the 1600s and the early decades of the 1900s.

Vittorio Gui Fund

In 1999 the Rossini Foundation, with fundamental contributions from the Finiper Group, the Province of Pesaro and Urbino and the City of Pesaro, purchased the large Lord St Davids collection which included approximately 1,400 volumes of printed, handwritten and autographed music by Gioachino Rossini.

Fondo Lord St. Davids

The Hercolani Collection is housed in the Civic Museums. It came into the possession of The Rossini Foundation as part of Rossini’s inheritance

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