baroquemusic.it is closing!
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2025 3:58 pm
Not sure, if I am putting this thread to an appropriate category, but the latest talk related to baroquemusic.it resource and its owner Mario Bolognani I found in Contributing -> Copyright Status Request:
Now the title page displays the following news:
So the time until it is planned to be inaccessible is very limited. As far as I understand despite free license of the scores there, its owner was against sharing them at IMSLP. However some of them are available at IMSLP, though, obviously, not all of them: Have anybody planned a transfer of the rest of them to IMSLP?From August 1, 2025, Mario Bolognani's historical archive on Baroque music will once again be fully accessible without restrictions until the end of 2025. After that date, the site will no longer be online.
A little more than a month after his hospitalization, sadly, Mario Bolognani passed away on 20 July 2025; he would have surely wanted to thank all the website subscribers and would have wanted to continue his commendable cultural activities until the very end.
The updates that depended completely on his knowledge have thus come to an end. The website provider has decided to make the site available again to the public in its entirety as of August 2025 and still keep it online for an additional 6 months.