Philharmonic Hall
The building was completed in an extraordinarily fast time, in just one year of work, and was solemnly inaugurated with a concert on May 30, 1905, to immediately underline its cultural and musical vocation.
The structure had a functional and carefully designed distribution of spaces: in addition to the basement, on the ground floor there were eight rooms and an apartment for the concierge; on the first floor there was the concert hall, the beating heart of the building, flanked by two rooms used for rehearsals; on the second floor there were three additional rooms and the loggias overlooking the upper part of the room. With the exception of a few changes made to the raised floor over time, the building still retains the original appearance with which it was built in 1905, testifying to the quality of the project and construction.
The total cost of the work, raised due to some unforeseen expenses, reached 127,516 crowns. A detailed list documents the precise subdivision: 41,873 crowns were allocated to the construction company of Luca Lorenzi and Giuseppe Scotoni; 21,246 crowns to Giorgio Paor for the supply of the reinforced concrete beam; 11,316 crowns to the carpenter Ferdinando Wolf; 6,547 crowns to the company of Giovanni Fozzer for the marble and stonemason work; 4,061 crowns to Antonio Fasana for the refined plaster decorations.
These data provide a valuable insight not only into costs, but also into the network of craftsmen and artisans who contributed to the construction of a building destined to become a reference point for city cultural life.
