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Giovanni Bottesini
12+ albums
double bassClassicalcomposerromanticbassist
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Giovanni Bottesini (22 December 1821 – 7 July 1889) was an Italian Romantic composer, conductor, and a double bass virtuoso. Born in Crema, Italy, he was taught the rudiments of music by his father, an accomplished clarinetist and composer, at a young age and had played timpani in Crema with the Teatro Sociale before the age of eleven. He studied violin with Carlo Cogliati, and would have most likely continued on this instrument except for a unique turn of events. His father sought a place for him in the Milan Conservatory, but due to the Bottesini family's lack of money, a scholarship was required. Only two were available: double bass and bassoon. He prepared a successful audition for the double bass scholarship in a matter of weeks. At the conservatory, he studied with Luigi Rossi, to whom he would later dedicate his Tre grande duetti per contrabasso. Only four years later, a surprisingly short time by the standards of the day, he left with a prize of 300 francs for solo playing. This money financed the acquisition of an instrument of Carlo Giuseppe Testore, and a globe-trotting career as "the Paganini of the Double Bass" was launched. On leaving Milan he spent some time in America and also occupied the position of principal double-bass in the theatre at Havana. Here his first opera, Cristoforo Colombo, was produced in 1847. In 1849 he made his first appearance in England, playing double bass solos at one of the Musical Union concerts. After this he made frequent visits
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Elegy No. 1 in D Major
3,1262Bottesini: Double Bass Concerto in B Minor: I. Allegro moderato
2,3633Concerto No. 2 in B minor for Double Bass and Orchestra: I. Allegro moderato
9944Elegy In D, No. 1
7045Bottesini: Double Bass Concerto in B Minor: II. Andante
5516Rêverie
5507Bottesini: Double Bass Concerto in B Minor: III. Finale. Allegro
5308Reverie
4259Bottesini: Grande allegro di concerto (alla Mendelssohn)
42310Melodia
420albums
Bottesini: Music for Double Bass and Piano, Vol. 1
Via Bottesini: Concerti e pezzi concertanti
BOTTESINI: Music for Double Bass and Piano, Vol. 1
Bottesini: Revolution of Bass
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Music for Double Bass and Piano Vol. 1
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Bottesini: Works for Double Bass (Complete), Vol. 4
The Lord of the Basses: Bottesini's Testore
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Bottesini: Double Bass Concerto No. 2 in B Minor
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Bottesini: Works for Double Bass, Vol. 1 - Concert Pieces
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Bottesini, G.: Double Bass Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Tchaikovsky, P.I.: Rococo Variations
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Bottesini: Works for Double Bass, Vol. 5, The Concertos
Bottesini: Messa da Requiem