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This year marks the 275th anniversary of the birth of Italian cellist and composer Luigi Boccherini. He isn't as well known as other composers like Mozart or Haydn — but some say he should be. Minuet ...

Anne-Marie Minhall, sitting in for Jane Jones, starts the week with a bang - Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture - and ends with a patriotic symphony from Dvořák. Boccherini's String Quintet in E major is ...

Luigi Boccherini composed his 1771 String Quintet in E for his patron, Don Luis, the brother of the king of Spain at the time. Don Luis employed his own string quartet and, as a cellist himself, ...

Luigi Boccherini was Italian-born but served the Spanish court, and he evoked the street scenes of Madrid with a soundscape worthy of Charles Ives in the programmatic String Quintet in C. Many have ...