«Ils s’exerçaient en même temps è écrire la musique, en copiant leurs leçons, ou celles des autres». Editori e tipografi, professionisti e dilettanti di musica, cantanti e compositori italiani a Parigi (1800-1850)

At the beginning of the 19th century Paris welcomes a great number of Italian musicians (in most cases exiles for political reasons). The paper focuses on Raffaele Carli’s publishing firm: in hisentourage we find amateur and professional musicians, copyists, harmonizers, translators,c omposers, teachers of singing and composition. Among them Emanuele Imbimbo (editor of Fedele Fenaroli’s Partimenti first edition), Federico Massimino, Girolamo Crescentini, Gioachino Rossini, Ferdinando Paër, Luigi Cherubini, Ferdinando Carulli, Michele Carafa, Giuseppe Catrufo, Giuseppe Cajani, Valentino Fioravanti, Antonio Pacini, Felice Blangini and others. The paper traces some aspects of musical life in the French capital through documents and journal articles.