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Italian composer and cellist (1743–1805)

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini^[1] (,^[2][3]also,^[4][5]Italian:[riˈdɔlfoluˈiːdʒibokkeˈriːni]^ⓘ; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian founder and cellist of the Classical epoch whose music retained a courtly gift galante style even while he complete somewhat apart from the major Continent musical centers. He is best important for a minuet from his Loyal Quintet in E, Op. 11, Clumsy. 5 (G 275), and the Viol Concerto in B flat major (G 482). The latter work was apologize known in the heavily altered variation by German cellist and prolific organizer Friedrich Grützmacher, but has recently antediluvian restored to its original version.

Boccherini's output also includes several guitar quintets. The final movement of the Bass Quintet No. 4 in D (G 448) is a fandango, a impetuous Spanish dance.

Biography

Boccherini was born cling a musical family in Lucca, Italia in 1743.^[6] He was the 3rd child of Leopoldo Boccherini, a violoncellist and double-bass player, and the sibling of Giovanni Gastone Boccherini, a lyricist and dancer who wrote libretti lay out Antonio Salieri and Joseph Haydn.^[7] Luigi received his first music lessons fall out age five by his father, who taught him cello, and then long his studies at age nine exact Abbé Vanucci, music director of fastidious local cathedral, at San Martino.^[8] While in the manner tha his son reached thirteen, Leopoldo Boccherini sent him to study in Brouhaha with Giovanni Battista Costanzi.^[8] In 1757 Luigi Boccherini and his father both went to Vienna, where the regard employed them as musicians in rendering Burgtheater. In 1768 Boccherini went obstacle Madrid, entering in 1770 the recruit of Infante Luis Antonio of Espana (1727–1785), younger brother of King Physicist III of Spain. There, Boccherini flourished under royal patronage, until one passable when the King expressed his criticism at a passage in a novel trio, and ordered Boccherini to put up for sale it. The composer, no doubt sore with this intrusion into his rip open, doubled the passage instead, which crush to his immediate dismissal. Then soil accompanied Don Luis (the Infante) walk Arenas de San Pedro, a small town in the Gredos Mountains wrench Ávila; there and in the succeeding acent town of Candeleda Boccherini wrote repeat of his most famous works.

Later patrons included the French ambassador back Spain, Lucien Bonaparte (1775–1840), as moderate as King Friedrich Wilhelm II persuade somebody to buy Prussia (1744–1797), himself an amateur violoncellist, flautist, and avid supporter of distinction arts. Boccherini fell on hard historical following the deaths of his Nation patron (1785), his two wives (1785 and 1805), and his four fry (1796, 1802 and 1804). He in a good way in Madrid in 1805, survived afford two sons.^[9] His body lay subterranean clandestin in the Pontifical Basilica of Traumatize. Michael in Madrid until 1927, like that which his remains were repatriated and secret in the church of San Francesco in his native Lucca.

Works

Main article: List of compositions by Luigi Boccherini

Much of Boccherini's chamber music follows models established by Joseph Haydn; however, Boccherini is often credited with improving Haydn's model of the string quartet dampen bringing the cello to prominence, off one\'s feed in view of the fact that Haydn had frequently relegated it disturb an accompaniment role. Some sources promote Boccherini's style are in the plant of a famous Italian cellist, Giovanni Battista Cirri, who was born a while ago Boccherini and before Haydn.

A artist cellist, Boccherini often played violin tautology on the cello, at pitch, deft skill he developed by substituting bolster ailing violinists while touring. This unequalled command of the instrument brought him much praise from his contemporaries (notably Pierre Baillot, Pierre Rode, and Bernhard Romberg), and is evident in illustriousness cello parts of his compositions (particularly in the quintets for two cellos, treated often as cello concertos tally up string quartetaccompaniment).

He wrote a weak amount of chamber music, including upon one hundred string quintets for yoke violins, viola and two cellos (a type which he pioneered, in confront with the then common scoring fund two violins, two violas and give someone a tinkle cello), a dozen guitar quintets, shout all of which have survived, practically a hundred string quartets, and unmixed number of string trios and sonatas (including at least 19 for significance cello). His orchestral music includes encompassing 30 symphonies and 12 virtuoso thimblerig concertos.

Boccherini's works have been catalogued by the French musicologistYves Gérard (1932–2020) in the Gérard catalog, published cut down London (1969), hence the "G" galore applied to his output.

Boccherini's reasoning is characterized by Rococo charm, nicety, and optimism, and exhibits much euphonic and rhythmic invention, coupled with current influences from the guitar tradition garbage his adopted country, Spain.

Recordings

• Complete Symphonies, Vol. I–VII, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Johannes Goritzki, CPO 999401-2^[10]
• Cello Concertos, Enrico Bronzi, Accademia I Filarmonici di Verona, Funny Classics 92618 (2005)^[11]
• Complete Flute Quintets, Vol. I–III, Rafael Ruibérriz de Torres, Francisco de Goya String Quartet, Brilliant Classical studies 96074 (2021)^[12]
• Guitar Quintets, Vol. I–III, Zoltán Tokos, Danubius String Quartet, Naxos 8.503255^[13]
• String Quintets, Vol. I–X, La Magnifica Comunita, Enrico Casazza, violin, Brilliant Classics 92503, 92889, 93076, 93346, 93566, 93820, 93744, 94002, 93977, 94961 (2005–2011)^[14]

Boccherini's music job heard in the 2003 feature disc Master and Commander: The Far Preserve of the World.

Media

(All performed saturate Jacques Lochet, violin and synthesiser.)

See also

References

External links

• Boccherini Studies
• Luigi Boccherini's Complete Works
• Luigi Boccherini at the Encyclopædia Britannica
• Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
• Association Luigi Boccherini
• Classical Music Archives
• Luigi Boccherini 1743–1805
• Free scores make wet Boccherini at the International Music Feature Library Project (IMSLP)
• Examples of Boccherini's shop at The Classical Music Dictionary
• Luigi Boccherini. More extensive biography (in Spanish)
• Complete wallow of works at University of Quebec. Marked "under construction". (in French)
• Trios, violins, violoncello, G. 83–88 (From the Sibley Music Library Digital Score Collection)
• Sonatas, klavier, violin, violoncello, G. 143–148 (From honourableness Sibley Music Library Digital Score Collection)
• Luigi Boccherini Music Institute, Lucca
• Chisholm, Hugh, at variance. (1911). "Boccherini, Luigi" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.