Giuseppe Tartini - Lettere e documenti / Pisma in dokumenti / Letters and Documents - Volume / Knjiga / Volume I

80 of the material that had lived in Martini’s rooms in San Francesco remained essentially unchanged (for example, it retained the division between theory and practice). According to the information on the history of the Library given by Francesco Vatielli (librarian in the years 1906-1946), there were numerous instances of losses. 67 There must have been many cases of theft, damage and destruction caused by the lack of organisation and careful supervision. Information about those unfortunate events can be found in the Gaspari-Catelani correspondence. 68 A classic example is the case of Otto Nicolai, 69 as revealed to Gaspari in a letter from Aristide Farrenc. 70 On passing through Bologna, Nicolai had removed Orazio Vecchi’s Amfiparnaso from the Martini collection. The copy then passed, together with other musical materials, to the Library of Vienna, where various items of Bolognese origin are still found today. Gaetano Gaspari, librarian from 1855 to 1881, provided the collection with a new ordering, in accordance with the succession of shelves containing the volumes (marked by the letters A-Z and AA-TT), while leaving unchanged the sequence and the separa- tion between the two sections. During the reorganisation, the three “tomes” containing the letters were sorted in different shelves: tomes 1-3 were marked as H/84-86, tomes 4-22, 24-28, 30-35 as I/1-30. To these were added the two volumes of letters addressed to Giacomo Antonio Perti (tomes 23 and 29), inserted in section K. 71 In the Tartini correspondence catalogued in the Bologna database, there are five letters marked as “not held”, corresponding to the positions I.017.008+, I.017.021+, I.017.022+, I.017.023+ and I.017.025+. Some of these have reappeared in auction cat- alogues in recent years, such as the letter dated 25 March 1741 (I.017.021+), for sale in the Christie’s London catalogue (2008, lot 150) with indication of provenance (Albin Schram Collection) and then in the O. Haas catalogue (2010, no. 45, lot 65: £ 6,200). Similarly, the letter dated 21 April 1741 (I.017.023+) appeared in the Gonnelli cata- logue of 31 January 2017 (auction 22, lot 54: € 900). Others are now preserved in libraries, as in the case of the letter dated 9 June 1741 at Harvard (I.017.025+) or the letter to Balbi dated 14 April of the same year, now at the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna (I.017.022+). 72 67 Vatielli, 1919. 68 On the Gaspari-Catelani correspondence, see Romeo , 1994-1995 and Bazzocchi, 1983. 69 Nicolai, Carl Otto Ehrenfried (1810-1849) was a German composer and orchestral conductor, famous especially for having composed operas that include The Merry Wives of Windsor and for having been the founder of the Wiener Philharmoniker. See U. Konrad, “Nicolai, Otto”, in Ng. 70 B. Friedland, “Farrenc”, in Ng. 71 See Mioli, 2006. 72 In this last case, identification of the letter as that of the Accademia Filarmonica is not indicated in the database but is confirmed by the correspondence of date and recipient.