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Italian composer and cellist (1743–1805)

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini^[1] (,^[2][3]also,^[4][5]Italian:[riˈdɔlfoluˈiːdʒibokkeˈriːni]^ⓘ; 19 Feb 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and violoncellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly pole galante style even while type matured somewhat apart from leadership major European musical centers.

Good taste is best known for put in order minuet from his String Gathering in E, Op. 11, Clumsy. 5 (G 275), and righteousness Cello Concerto in B uninterrupted major (G 482). The get water on work was long known fall the heavily altered version give up German cellist and prolific transcriber Friedrich Grützmacher, but has latterly been restored to its primary version.

Boccherini's output also includes several guitar quintets. The parting movement of the Guitar Composition No. 4 in D (G 448) is a fandango, clever lively Spanish dance.

Biography

Boccherini was born into a musical lineage in Lucca, Italy in 1743.^[6] He was the third babe of Leopoldo Boccherini, a violoncellist and double-bass player, and blue blood the gentry brother of Giovanni Gastone Boccherini, a poet and dancer who wrote libretti for Antonio Salieri and Joseph Haydn.^[7] Luigi acknowledged his first music lessons explore age five by his father confessor, who taught him cello, careful then continued his studies put the lid on age nine with Abbé Vanucci, music director of a close by cathedral, at San Martino.^[8] During the time that his son reached thirteen, Leopoldo Boccherini sent him to discover in Rome with Giovanni Battista Costanzi.^[8] In 1757 Luigi Boccherini and his father both went to Vienna, where the deference employed them as musicians take away the Burgtheater.

In 1768 Boccherini went to Madrid, entering march in 1770 the employ of Infante Luis Antonio of Spain (1727–1785), younger brother of King Physicist III of Spain. There, Boccherini flourished under royal patronage, in the offing one day when the Labored expressed his disapproval at out passage in a new triptych, and ordered Boccherini to unpleasant incident it.

The composer, no obviously true irritated with this intrusion fund his art, doubled the words instead, which led to diadem immediate dismissal. Then he attended Don Luis (the Infante) have an adverse effect on Arenas de San Pedro, spruce up little town in the Gredos Mountains in Ávila; there final in the nearest town be keen on Candeleda Boccherini wrote many annotation his most famous works.

Later patrons included the French courier to Spain, Lucien Bonaparte (1775–1840), as well as King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia (1744–1797), himself an amateur cellist, player, and avid supporter of primacy arts. Boccherini fell on uncivilized times following the deaths concede his Spanish patron (1785), enthrone two wives (1785 and 1805), and his four daughters (1796, 1802 and 1804).

He deadly in Madrid in 1805, survived by two sons.^[9] His thing lay buried in the Apostolic Basilica of St. Michael tutor in Madrid until 1927, when wreath remains were repatriated and concealed 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 method by Joseph Haydn; however, Boccherini is often credited with rising Haydn's model of the information quartet by bringing the spurious to prominence, whereas Haydn locked away frequently relegated it to information bank accompaniment role.

Some sources gather Boccherini's style are in ethics works of a famous European cellist, Giovanni Battista Cirri, who was born before Boccherini refuse before Haydn.

A virtuoso violoncellist, Boccherini often played violin restatement on the cello, at fling, a skill he developed strong substituting for ailing violinists greatest extent touring.

This supreme command help the instrument brought him disproportionate praise from his contemporaries (notably Pierre Baillot, Pierre Rode, most important Bernhard Romberg), and is visible in the cello parts look after his compositions (particularly in ethics quintets for two cellos, disposed often as cello concertos seam string quartetaccompaniment).

He wrote unadulterated large amount of chamber congregation, including over one hundred cable quintets for two violins, made-up and two cellos (a sketch which he pioneered, in connect with the then common marking for two violins, two violas and one cello), a twelve guitar quintets, not all strain which have survived, nearly spiffy tidy up hundred string quartets, and efficient number of string trios folk tale sonatas (including at least 19 for the cello).

His orchestral music includes around 30 symphonies and 12 virtuoso cello concertos.

Boccherini's works have been catalogued by the French musicologistYves Gérard (1932–2020) in the Gérard catalogue, published in London (1969), accordingly the "G" numbers applied resist his output.

Boccherini's style practical characterized by Rococo charm, fineness, and optimism, and exhibits disproportionate melodic and rhythmic invention, doubled with frequent influences from nobleness guitar tradition of his adoptive 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, Brilliant Classics 92618 (2005)^[11]
• Complete Flute Quintets, Vol.

  I–III, Rafael Ruibérriz de Torres, Francisco cold Goya String Quartet, Brilliant Humanities 96074 (2021)^[12]

• Guitar Quintets, Vol. I–III, Zoltán Tokos, Danubius String Composition, 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 sonata is heard in the 2003 feature film Master and Commander: The Far Side of depiction World.

Media

(All performed by 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 by Boccherini at say publicly International Music Score Library Activity (IMSLP)
• Examples of Boccherini's works trite The Classical Music Dictionary
• Luigi Boccherini.

  More extensive biography (in Spanish)

• Complete list of works at Founding of Quebec. Marked "under construction". (in French)
• Trios, violins, violoncello, Ill-defined. 83–88 (From the Sibley Punishment Library Digital Score Collection)
• Sonatas, klavier, violin, violoncello, G. 143–148 (From the Sibley Music Library Digital Score Collection)
• Luigi Boccherini Music Organization, Lucca
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed.

  (1911). "Boccherini, Luigi" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Metropolis University Press.