Situated in Venice, the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française was created by the Bru Foundation with the object of promoting international recognition of the French musical repertoire of the nineteenth century. The Centre’s activities are manifold. As well as being a lively workplace and a venue for artistic events, it is a hub of learning, providing documentary resources and facilities for teaching and research; it also produces publications and contributes to the furtherance and transmission of knowledge.
The primary mission of the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française is to make this repertoire well known internationally. Concerts and other events, resulting from the Centre’s research and publications, punctuate its activities throughout the year.

Each season, about a hundred concerts are presented, as part of three main events. In autumn and spring, two thematic festivals focus on various aspects of the Romantic movement (a composer, an instrument, an institution, etc.); every nineteenth-century musical genre is represented: solo works, chamber music, symphonic pieces, sacred compositions, songs (mélodies) and opera.
In winter each year at the Palazzetto Bru Zane an event entitled “Le Salon romantique” brings together ten or so artists or ensembles in a variety of programmes of French music.