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Music Room

The Imperial family was especially fond of music - a tradition of the Bragança dynasty, especially outstanding was d. Pedro I, musician and composer. Soirées and recitals encouraged by the emperor, the empress and her daughters, d. Isabel and d. Leopoldina, were frequently held in the music room of the Petrópolis palace. There the court, diplomats and artists, both national and foreign, would gather.  Amongst the various instruments especially noteworthy are the gilded harp - made by Pleyel Wolff, the psalter (a kind of cither) made in Rio de Janeiro in the XVIII century and a piano - made in england by broadwood during the XIX century- and which, by tradition belonged to d. Pedro I. The rarest instrument is the spinet (a string instrument belonging to the harpsicord family) - made in Lisbon in 1788 by the craftsman Mathias Bosten. It is the only instrument, made by this artist, in  existence. In the detail, violin given to d. pedro ii by luthier Emile Mennesson, from Reims - france. decorated with inlaid mother-of-pearl. case of jacaranda decorated with designs in silver.