Luigi Boccherini

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (/ˌbɒkəˈriːni/, also US: /ˌboʊk-/, Italian: [riˈdɔlfo luˈiːdʒi bokkeˈriːni] ; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and galante style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. He is best known for a minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. 5 (G 275), and the Cello Concerto in B flat major (G 482). The latter work was long known in the heavily altered version by German cellist and prolific arranger Friedrich Grützmacher, but has recently been restored to its original version.

Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini (1743-1805) was born in Italy but lived in Spain from 1769, employed by the Infante Don Luis as “virtuoso di camera e compositor di musica”. A prolific composer with a distinctive, courtly and gallant style, he is the chief representative of Latin instrumental music during the Classical period.

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1. Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
2. Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev
3. Béla Bartó
4. Friedrich Baumfelder
5. Ludwig van Beethoven

Boccherini´s immense output includes 91 string quartets, 30 symphonies, 137 quintets for various combinations of strings, multitudes of trios, keyboard quintets, sextets, and sonatas, two operas, and a mass.
Still his fame rest more or less on one particular minuet, originally from the String Quintet in E, Op. 13, No. 5, and the Cello Concerto in B-flat major (G 482).

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