Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer and cellist (1743–1805)
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ItalyA cellist-composer who kept the courtly style alive on the margins of the Classical era, writing hundreds of chamber works that never quite needed the spotlight. One minuet from a string quintet became inescapable — you've heard it, even if you don't know his name.
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Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini was born on 19 February 1743 in Italy and matured as a composer somewhat apart from the major musical centers of his time, holding to a galante style even as the Classical era moved around him. He's best known for the minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. 5 (G 275), and for the Cello Concerto in B flat major (G 482) — the latter circulated for decades in a heavily altered version by Friedrich Grützmacher before being restored to what Boccherini actually wrote. His output includes several guitar quintets, among them the Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D (G 448), whic…
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- La Clementina1999
- Sonate a Violoncello Solo e Basso1999
- Cello Concertos, Volume 21999
- 28 Symphonies1999
- Cello Concertos, Volume 11998
- Cello Concertos nos. 2, 3, 9 & 101998
- The Symphonies op. 121997
- Guitar Quintets Nos. 4, 7, 9 "La ritirata di Madrid"1997
- Quintetto per archi: La musica notturna di Madrid / Del Fandango / Minuetto1997
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- Pantheon 2.0High confidencedatabase · pantheon.world
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