Lorenzo Bocchi

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Lorenzo Bocchi was an eighteenth-century Italian cellist and composer. Although his biographical details are very thin, Bocchi was a figure of some importance in Scottish and Irish musical life in the 1720s. He was probably the first person to play the cello in Scotland and Ireland, and was involved in early attempts to establish regular concerts in Edinburgh and Dublin. He was an associate of Allan Ramsay senior, and seems to have been involved in the operatic experiments in Edinburgh that were to lead to the first Scottish opera, Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd. He played an important role in the early history of music publication in Ireland, and had a hand in the first printed collection of Irish tunes, published by Neal in 1724. He may also have been responsible for bringing to Ireland the material for the parallel collection of Scots tunes that Neal published in the same year. The first piece in the book of Irish tunes is "Plea Rarkeh na Rourkough or ye Irish Wedding improved with diferent divisions after ye Italian maner with A bass and Chorus by Sigr: LORENZO BOCCHI", and the title page states that the piece was "As performed at the Subscription Consort by Senior Loranzo Bocchi" Bocchi himself published A Musical Entertainment for a Chamber in Dublin in 1724 or 1725, containing sonatas for recorder, cello, violin, and bass viol, as well as a cantata setting a text in Scots. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms

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