Philharmonic Academy of Bologna

Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna

The entrance to Palazzo Carrati, home of the Accademia
Motto	Unitate melos
Predecessor	Accademia dei Floridi (1615) Accademia dei Filomusi (1622) Accademia dei Filaschisi (1633)
Formation	1666
Type	cultural organisation
Purpose	musical education
Headquarters	Palazzo Carrati, via Guerrazzi 13
Location	Bologna, Italy
Coordinates	44°29′28″N 11°21′04″E / 44.4912°N 11.3511°E / 44.4912; 11.3511Coordinates: 44°29′28″N 11°21′04″E / 44.4912°N 11.3511°E / 44.4912; 11.3511
President	Loris Azzaroni
Website	www.accademiafilarmonica.it
Formerly called	Accademia de' Filarmonici Liceo Filarmonico di Bologna Regia Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna

The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna ("philharmonic academy of Bologna") is a music education institution in Bologna, Italy.

The Accademia de' Filarmonici was founded as an association of musicians in Bologna in 1666 by Vincenzo Maria Carrati.Saint Anthony of Padua was chosen as the patron saint, and an organ with the motto Unitate melos as the emblem. Through the influence of Pietro Ottoboni, the statute of the academy was approved by Clement XI in 1716. In 1749 the Benedict XIV decreed that the Accademia could award the title of Maestro di cappella.

Among the early members of the academy were Giovanni Paolo Colonna (one of the founders of 1666), Arcangelo Corelli (1670), Giacomo Antonio Perti (1688), Giuseppe Maria Jacchini (1688), Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Antonio Maria Bernacchi (1722), Giovanni Carestini (1726) and the celebrated castrato singer Carlo Farinelli (1730).

The composer and teacher Giovanni Battista Martini taught at the Accademia from 1758; his pupils included André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Josef Mysliveček, Maksym Berezovsky, Stanislao Mattei (who succeeded Martini as teacher of composition), Johann Christian Bach, the noted cellist Giovanni Battista Cirri and, in 1770, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.