Zanibon of Padova, Italy, who has produced a great number of scores under the guidance of the veteran cellist and musicologist Aldo Pais. Laudable efforts were made on the part of publishers like G. In 1971, in the Rivista Musicala Italiana, the musicologist Massimo Mila said: 'Boccherini, a composer, who sounds like Mozart, Haydn or the young Beethoven.' But the 250th anniversary of his birth in 1993 was very discreetly celebrated and was not an occasion for a revival of his music. In 1962, Pina Carmirelli, a violinist and Boccherini expert, recorded several lovely quartets. In the 1950's the great Czech conductor Henry Swoboda recorded several of Boccherini's symphonies, which are marvelous.

Let's hope that it will not take too long to come out. Its second updated edition is now being prepared. In any case the Gerard Catalog, published by Oxford University Press, should be every cellist's bible. Since then Gerard has become known as Boccherini's Koechel, the first letter of his name being used to number Boccherini's production, which is close to 600 works! Unfortunately, Piatigorsky's goal to render Boccherini's music better known and more popular has not yet, in the last 40 years, really been achieved. He convinced his mother-in-law, the Baroness Germaine de Rothschild, to write a biography of Boccherini, which was published in 1962, and to sponsor a 700 page catalog of his works by a young French musicologist, Yves Gerard. One of the first to become aware of this sad situation was my teacher Gregor Piatigorsky. When I was a young student the only two works by Boccherini ever performed were his celebrated minuet and the B-flat Cello Concerto (in a very freely edited version by GrГјtzmacher, which is, unfortunately still played by some cellists). Luigi Boccherini - An Unjustly Neglected Great Composer for the Cello LUIGI BOCCHERINI - AN UNJUSTLY NEGLECTED GREAT COMPOSER FOR THE CELLO

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