Guido Chigi Saracini was a visionary patron, an experienced musician, and a devoted friend to Ottorino and Elsa Respighi. According to the Count’s vision, the Accademia Chigiana should have been a meeting place for musicians, artists, and intellectuals, a place where historical eras would intersect, and the past would be discovered in order to conceive the future. The frequent contacts with Count Chigi, Sebastiano A. Luciani, Arrigo Serato, Olga Rudge, Bianca Chigi, Luisa Bàccara, led to the composition of new music (Lauda per la natività del Signore and Suite della tabacchiera, 1930) and the orchestration of pieces of the past, now rediscovered (Respighi E se un giorno tornasse, 1930; Vivaldi, Sonata in Re maggiore rv10; Bach, Corale Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland). Guido Chigi Saracini kept Respighi’s scores during World War II, and received as a gift from Elsa several of his scores, including some autographs of La campana sommersa, which are now in the library of the Accademia Chigiana.