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LUIGI BOCCHERINI

19thFebruary 1743 --- 28thMay 1805

Luigi Boccherini born in Lucca Italy 1743 into a family of musicians, Boccherini studied the Cello under his father. At
thirteen he was sent to Rome,  while a journey to Milan to visit Sammartini, and three stays in Vienna, all before the
age of twenty-one, put the seal on his reputation as a virtuoso and saw his debut as a composer of six quartets with
obbligato parts were published in 1760.

After a  fruitless  attempt  to establish himself  in his  native town,  he led the wandering life  of  a virtuoso  until  he
settled in  Spain in 1769.  Here he worked for various patrons, but in the unsettled conditions of that country during
the  Napoleonic wars,  he failed to gain lasting or  secure employment and died  in Madrid in 1805 in great hardship.

Apart from his celebrated minuet, the name of Boccherini fell into oblivion until comparatively recently, but now the
riches of his chamber music are becoming known to an ever growing public. To his contempories, Boccherini in 1760
was  the first  and foremost a virtioso  cellist who  had assimilated  the technical innovations  of the violin  school  of
Corelli  and Tatini and had developed and  applied them to the Cello.  In 1765, he formed a quartet in Milan, together
with  Nardini,  Manfordi  and  Cambini.  Boccherini's influence  was  two-fold,  on a virtuosi  like the Duport  brothers
Romberg  and  Viotti,  and on the  composition of  chamber  music by  writing  obbligato  parts  for each  instrument.

He himself wrote an enormous amount of chamber music, twenty-seven sonatas for cello and six for piano and violin
forty-two  trios, ninety-seven quartets,  176 quintets (113 for two cellos),  and seven nocturnes for wind ensembles.

Last Updated on 2023
By Steven Ritchie

And now for the Music

(724)"The Celebrated Minuet". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

Thanks to Park Homin for the music below.

New (3865)"Introduction and Fandango". Sequenced by Park Homin.

New (3864)"Bolero Minuet". Sequenced by M.Ferre.

Thanks to James Batty for the music below.

New (3862)"Quintet in E". Sequenced by James Batty.

Thanks to George Pollen for his version of the celebrated minuet.

(896)"The Celebrated Minuet, a orchestral piece". Sequenced by George Pollen.

New (3863)"Unknown Quintet". Sequencer Unknown.

Info by Yuriy Leonovich for the 3 pieces below

(1599)"Quintet for Flute Oboe Violin Viola and Cello, Mov.1, Allegro." Sequencer Unknown.

(1600)"Quintet for Flute Oboe Violin Viola and Cello, Mov.2, Allegretto". Sequencer Unknown.

(1601)"Quintet for Flute Oboe Violin Viola and Cello, Mov.3, Tempo di Minuetto". Sequencer Unknown.

(411)"Quintetto in C Major for Flute, Oboe, Violin, Viola and Violoncello". Sequencer unknown.

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