Directory of Boccherini, Ridolfo Luigi Resources

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Italian Classical period composer Luigi Boccherini was born in 1743 and died in 1805. He lived and worked in Paris and Madrid and was Prussian court composer for a time. He revolutionized cello music. His most famous work is a minuet from his String Quintet in E-major, Opus 13.

Resources in This Category

• Boccherini, Luigi

  http://www.naxos.com/person/Luigi_Boccherini_27079/27079.htm
  Brief biography with notes on his chamber music and cello concertos with recommended recordings.

• Boccherini, Luigi (1743 - 1805), Italy

  http://stevenestrella.com/composers/composerfiles/boccherini1805.html
  Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and links to biographical essays from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers.

• Classic Cat: Boccherini

  http://www.classiccat.net/boccherini_l/
  Directory of mp3s on the internet that have been made available by their performing artists.

• Classical Music Archives - Boccherini

  http://www.classicalarchives.com/composer/2207.html
  Works offered in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media audio formats, including live recordings of featured artists. Two biographies, including that from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music.

• Luigi Boccherini

  http://www.angelfire.com/wi/boccherini/index.html
  Contains bibliographic citations of scholarly literature concerning European art music circa 1740-1810, the Classical period, with emphasis on him and Haydn.

• Luigi Boccherini

  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0090530/
  List of films using his music with links to related material from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

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