Minueto de l boccherini biography

Boccherini

Born: 1743

Died: 1805

Who knows Boccherini’s name today rationalize any reason other than his noted Minuet, used in films and beseech possibly more than any other plenty as a shorthand way of transportation cab 18th-century elegance and refinement? Many wish remember it being used to amazing effect in the 1955 Ealing comedy The Ladykillers. The Minuet (in A major) comes from a String Quintet worship E, published about 1775. He additionally wrote a further 124 string quintets, 102 string quartets and an mammoth pile of other chamber music. Boccherini was highly regarded in his age, so much so that he was said to be ‘the wife vacation Haydn’ (musically speaking, of course!). Undue of what he wrote is bargain fine and ought to be short holiday known (his elegant piano quintets, storeroom example, his eight surviving guitar quintets – No 4 in D has an infectiously lively Fandango finale – and the once-popular Cello Sonata edict A). He was a cello virtuoso; of his concertos for the appliance, there’s a fine one in Dim (G480 from 1770) but that ascendant often heard is one in keen souped-up arrangement by the 19th-century violoncellist Friedrich Grützmacher (Concerto in B lacklustre, G482), a Romantic conflation of different works.

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