The Musikethos.org project stems from the idea of promoting the musical creations and interpretations of a group of artists intending to gain a vast and heterogeneous international audience through the free distribution of recordings not available on the market. In one year of existence, users have downloaded from Musikethos.org more than 500 Gigabytes of free, legal music.

In addition to digital recordings, Musikethos.org also promotes the live performances of its musicians.

The pieces and performances that you will find in the Download section can be downloaded for free, thanks to the Creative Commons licences. Among these, Musikethos has chosen the authorization model allowing the user private copy and distribution rights for non-commercial ends, as long as the piece’s integrity and paternity are respected.

If you wish to know more about our project, please see our Mission Statement. Please consider subscribing to our newsletter (see the Newsletter box on the left of the page). This will allow us to promptly alert you when making additions to our music archive and upcoming concerts.

Performers and composers interested in participating to the project can contact us for further details. The same procedure applies to those wishing to propose other projects or forms of collaborations. Please note that performers and composers are required to pay an annual association fee.

News

6 May 2008

Giuseppe Mazziotti has written an analysis of EU digital copyright for the website of Corriere della Sera, Italy’s leading daily newspaper

16 March 2008

Giuseppe Mazziotti will be speaking on national public radio Rai Radio 3 this coming Thursday (March 20th) on the reform of Italian music academies in the program Radio 3 Suite

9 March 2008

Today we publish two remarkable orchestral performances: the Symphony in G op. 88, n. 8 written by Antonin Dvorak, and the Symphony n. 4 in A Op.90 by Felix Mendelssohn, also known as the Italian symphony. Both are performed by the Orchestra Pistoiese Promusica, directed by Daniele Giorgi

2 March 2008

The Live Section has been updated with the upcoming events until May

30 October 2007

The staff of Musikethos would like to extend an apology to our users for the technical difficulties that have plagued our website over the last week, making much of it inaccessible. We regret to inform that other small black-outs may occur in the near future, especially in the Downloads section, as we proceed to move our website on a more reliable web hosting platform

14 October 2007

We resume our publishing activity with two works written by Ludwig Van Beethoven, both in E flat major: a quartet transcription of a Beethoven quintet, performed by the Klimt Quartet and the Symphony n.3, performed by the Orchestra Pistoiese Promusica, directed by Daniele Giorgi

30 July 2007

With great pleasure we publish today a Suite from the contemporary composition Il Lettore ad Ore, written by composer Alessandro Magini. Francesco Gesualdi plays the accordion, Massimo Barrera the cello

15 July 2007

A problem with our web host has caused over the last few days a series of problems with the website. Right now, the majority of the music is not available for listening or download. We apologize for the inconvenience. We hope the problem will be fixed in the next few days

20 April 2007

As you might have noticed, we have added a “live” section, where we list our artists’ upcoming performances. From now on, you will have the chance to track and maybe even attend concerts of musicians you have known through Musikethos.org. The listing, accessible through the sidebar on the left, is here.

9 March 2007

On March 22nd, Giuseppe Mazziotti will participate to the conference Digital Rights Management sponsored by the University of Trento, Northern Italy. Those interested can view the schedule of events here

09 February 2007

Today we publish Mauro Giuliani’s variations Op. 45 on the Follia di Spagna, performed by guitarist Luigi Attademo

17 January 2007

It is with great pleasure that we welcome guitarist Luigi Attademo to Musikethos.org and to the Musica Etica association. The first of several additions to our archive is Bach’s Sonata n.2 for violin

8 January 2007

Happy new year to all of our users. We are experiencing some problems with images and attached files at this time. Mp3s are not affected. We apologize for the inconvenience.

26 November 2006

Today we are proud to publish Chopin’s Fantasia Op.49 and Beethoven’s Sonata N.2 Op.3, both performed by pianist Stefano Micheletti in a recital held in Rome, at the Teatro Ghione, in May 1988

16 November 2006

Less than one year after its official launch, Musikethos.org has distributed more than 500 Gigabytes of music. Congratulations to our musicians and to our loyal audience!

14 November 2006

From the albumTales of a Musical Journey we publish today four tracks for saxophone and piano, composed and performed by Filippo Fano’, along with his performance of Je te Veux, written by Erik Satie

4 November 2006

A homage to Maestro Ciro Scarponi, who passed away one month ago

24 October 2006

Today we have added to our archive a portion of the soundtrack to the movie Il primo giorno di sole, composed by Stefano Micheletti. The pieces are performed by Giuseppe Mazziotti and by Micheletti himself.