MUSIC PRINTED BY THE BROCKTORFF FAMILY
A recent Exhibition entitled 'In Harmony: 19th-century music printing in Malta' launched the Gaulitana Festival of Music 2025, curated by Joseph Calleja and Anna Borg Cardona. It ran between 5 April and 4 May 2025 in the Cultural Centre tucked away on the right of the Cathedral in Gozo's beautiful Cittadella.
This Exhibition showcased sheet music printed locally by the Brocktorff family of artist lithographers, with exhibits belonging to the Anna Borg Cardona Collection. This Exhibition forms part of a larger ongoing project BROCKTORFF PROJECT - MUSIC PRINTING. Do visit the blog!
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Here are a few photos recording the occasion:
Mro Colin Attard making official opening speech
at the Exhibition
Thanks to Dr Hugo Agius Muscat for the above photo.
left - Dr Paolo Nani's Divertimento Facile based on Gaetano Donizetti's opera Maria Padilla.
One of the earlier sheet music printed at the Brocktorff Press c.1846, and one of many salon pieces printed by them for Dr Paolo Nani.
right - The opera libretto of Maria Padilla printed in Malta by Filippo Izzo in 1846.
L'8 Settembre, a Polka Brillante by Luigi Vella, dedicated to Dr Fortunato Mizzi, the only work printed at the Brocktorff Press by Luigi Vella.
This is one of the later works of the younger sibling Giuseppe Brocktorff, printed in 1890.
