Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer (died 1805)

Luigi Boccherini

Italian composer and cellist (1743–1805)

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and galante style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major classical musical centers. He is best known for a minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11,…