Giovanni Bottesini

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He studied music at the Milan Conservatory, devoting himself especially to the double-bass, an instrument with which his name is principally associated. 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, <i>Cristoforo Colombo</i>, 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 to England, and his extraordinary command of his unwieldy instrument gained him great popularity in London and the provinces. Apart from his triumphs as an executant, Bottesini was a conductor of European reputation, and earned some success as a composer though his work had not sufficient individuality to survive the changes of taste and fashion. He was conductor at the Theatre des Italiens in Paris from 1855 to 1857 where his second onera, <i>L'Assedio di Firenze</i> was produced in 1856. In 1861-62 he conducted at Palermo, supervising the production of his opera <i>Marion Delorme</i> in 1862, and in 1863 at Barcelona. During these years he diversified the toils of conducting by repeated concert tours through the principal countries of Europe. In 1871 he conducted a season of Italian, opera at the Lyceum Theatre in London, during which his opera <i>Ali Baba</i> was produced, and at the close of the year he was chosen by <a href="/people/193/000025118/">Giuseppe Verdi</a> to conduct the first performance of <i>A飀a</i>, which took place at Cairo on 27th December 1871. Bottesini wrote three operas besides those already mentioned: <i>Il Diavolo della Notte</i> (Milan, 1859); <i>Vinciguerra</i> (Paris, 1870); and <i>Ero e Leandro</i> (Turin, 1880), the last named to a libretto by <a href="/people/581/000093302/">Arrigo Boito</a>, which was subsequently set by Mancinelli. He also wrote <i>The Garden of Olivet</i>, a devotional oratorio (libretto by Joseph Bennett), which was produced at the Norwich festival in 1887, a concerto for the double-bass, and numerous songs and minor instrumental pieces. Bottesini died at Parma on the 7th of July 1889. <p><b>Father:</b> (clarinetist, composer)<br><p>    University: <a href="/edu/703/000093424/">Milan Conservatory (1835-39)</a><br><p><br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=93349" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>

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