This ancient mansion dating back to the 1200s and later restored in the second half of the 1900s was, among other functions, also home to the Music Institute founded by Bavarian musician Simone Mayr during the 1800s.
It was a charitable training institution, where the underprivileged could attend classes: this was how, from 1806 to 1815, the future composer symbol of Bergamo, Gaetano Donizetti, was also admitted.
It is said that the pupil immediately proved to be very musically gifted, and learned the secrets of composition from masters such as Francesco Salari, Antonio Gonzales and Simone Mayr himself.
Did you know that Donizetti also met Vincenzo Bellini here?
He later wrote his Requiem Mass on his death, but it was not played until many years later, in 1870 in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.
The Angelini House hides a secret: in its cellar, during renovation work in the 1960s, the Domus Licina, the home of a wealthy family from Roman times, was discovered.