The output of Antonio Fanna, important pianist, teacher and music promoter in Venice in the early nineteenth century, effectively sums up, as a first example in Italy, the instrumental meeting between Classicism and Romanticism. Highly esteemed by leading musicians and performers of his time, Liszt in particular, Fanna composed works which, although marked by the brilliant style and suggestions of melodrama, pursue the demands of art, revealing the composer as one of the most interesting in the development of taste and the perfection of technique. His story intertwines with the Venetian culture and patriotic fervors of Daniele Manin, with whom he associated.