The Biblioteca privata Bruno Raiteri in Verolengo (Torino)

Made up of over 800 music manuscripts, 8,000 editions (17th-20th century) and a hundred opera and oratorio libretti, the library of Bruno Raiteri, a musician and teacher born in Trino (Vercelli) in 1961, is particularly interesting to those who deal with Piedmont music (over three hundred composers born or based in Piedmont who are represented by at least one composition).

Among the items which are worth remembering there are the manuscripts of religious and secular music for band dating back to the second half of the 19th century and coming from various music bands in Piedmont, and the collection of composer Angelo Tortone (Cambiano, Turin, 1884 – Turin, 1973), including almost all his works (with original scores). Among the documents we ought to mention the very rare edition of Metodo per chitarra by Francesco Molino published in Turin by Reycend brothers at the beginning of the 19th century; there are also two original letters by violinist Antonio Bazzini.

The library includes a considerable group of film scores ascribed from the 1920s to the 1970s, partly coming from the collection of Bruno’s father, Eugenio Raiteri (Giarole, Alessandria, 1930 – Casale Monferrato, Alessandria, 2003), which were bought in recent years (for acquisitions following the end of Cabiria Project census and cataloguing please refer to the lists in PDF format).

Printed music new acquisitions
Manuscript music new acquisitions

Some film scores of this collection are now being played and recorded by the Orchestra Melodica Aurora, founded by Bruno Raiteri himself in 2013.

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