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Artist: Luigi Boccherini
An Italian composer who specialized almost entirely in chamber music and wrote chamber symphonies, numerous violin and cello sonatas, and guitar music. His profound admiration for Haydn gave rise to the saying "Boccherini is the wife of Haydn." ~ Mary K. Scanlan, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Boccherini Quartet Tokyo
Artist: Enzo Borlenghi
Borlenghi studied piano and composition in Florence and took a position at the Istituto Musicale Luigi Boccherini at Lucca in 1945. He wrote several orchestral works, a one act opera, Moresca (1940), piano works, chamber music and songs. ~ Lynn Vought, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Giovanni Battista Cirri
An Italian composer and cellist whose music was similar to Boccherini's. Cirri's music was controlled through enigmatic harmonies and most of the music he composed as for his instrument. Included in his works were duos, sonatas, concerto and quartets. He played and studied in Bologna and eventually moved to Paris and then London. Cirri... [+] Read More
Artist: Salvatore Lanzetti
A student of the Conservatory in Naples, Lanzetti devoted himself to the cello and composition. He was in service to the court chapel in Lucca and to Vittorio Amedeo II in Turin. The post at Turin was maintained by Lanzetti even though he made extensive tours in Europe. He was in London in the 1730s and may have lived there until 1754. While in... [+] Read More
Artist: Emanuel Feuermann
Emmanuel Feuermann came from a family where great musical gifts manifested themselves early. The father was a self-taught violinist and cellist. Emmanuel¹s elder brother, Zigmund, quickly showed himself to be a prodigy on the violin. Their father, clearly hoping lightning would strike again, presented Emmanuel with a violin. But he boy insisted... [+] Read More
Artist: Sir Neville Marriner
Along with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Neville Marriner is one of the names most closely associated with the reawakening of modern interest in Baroque and early Classical music. At the end of the 1950's, he founded the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the first British chamber orchestra specializing in Baroque and early Classical repertory to find... [+] Read More
