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, ...

Born in the same town as Puccini, Luigi Boccherini’s future lay a very long way from Europe’s major musical centres, in the isolated Gredos Mountains in Central Spain. Martin Buzacott looks at some ...

Boccherini wrote 110 string quintets in the 18th century, and out of all that music, it was this little menuet that made him famous. I Musici de Montreal is in concert at the Library of Congress. I ...

Recorded at Wigmore Hall, London. The Nash Ensemble with Roderick Williams, baritone, perform Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians. One of the graceful quintets with two cellos by the Italian-born, ...

Luigi Boccherini dared to question what range the cello could play in his cello quintet, Op. 20, No. 4. It's pretty wild that this i written just before Boccherini. And people are experimenting with ...

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 ...