Informationen zu "Giovanni Bottesini Transcribed: Luis Guillermo Perez Elegia Double Bass & Guitar"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM1090
EAN: 9990093814671
Beschreibung
Elegia was first published in Bottesini's Method for Double Bass to
illustrate the lyrical capabilities of the instrument, and was rumoured to be
the composer's favourite work. It has been recorded more than any other work
by Bottesini and is his most attractive piece for bass. This is ideal for any
bassist of about Grade 8+ level who is interested to learn about the entire
range of the double bass and it has proved very popular with adventurous
young bassists. An ideal 'easy' virtuoso work for students who are venturing
into the higher reaches of the instrument. The edition is published with
guitar accompaniments for both solo and orchestral tunings. 'How he
bewildered us by playing all sorts of melodies in flute like harmonics, as
though he had a hundred nightingales caged in his double bass... I never
wearied of his consummate grace and finish, his fatal precision, his heavenly
tone, his fine taste. One sometimes yearned for a touch of human
imperfection, but he was like a dead shot, he never missed what he aimed at,
and he never aimed at less than perfection.' [H.Haweis, 1888] Giovanni
Bottesini was called the 'Paganini of the Double Bass' and was the finest
double bass soloist of the 19th-century. He was born in Crema (Lombardy) on
24 December 1821 and studied at the double bass at the Milan Conservatoire
with Luigi Rossi, alongside harmony and composition with Nicola Vaccai
(1790-1848) and Francesco Basili (1767-1850). His remarkable career as a
soloist began in 1839 and lasted fifty years, taking him to every corner of
the world. From Italy, his travels took him to Cuba (1846), USA (1847),
England (annually from 1849), Egypt, Ireland, France, Germany, Russia,
Mexico, Spain, Belgium, Monte carlo and many other countries throughout a
long and distinguished career. Bottesini was also famous as a composer
writing at least 13 operas (Cristoforo Colombo, 1847 / Il diavolo della
notte, 1856 / Ali Baba, 1871 / Ero e Leandro, 1879), a Messa da Requiem
(1880) and an oratorio, The Garden of Olivet (1887 - first performed at the
Norwich Festival), works for orchestra, 11 string quartets, string quintets,
songs and many virtuoso works for double bass. As a conductor he is
remembered primarily for directing the first performance of Verdi's Aida in
Cairo in 1871, but was also a repsected composer of Italian opera, including
seasons in Mexico, Paris, Palermo, Barcelona, London, Buenos Aires and Parma.
Bottesini's music for double bass is still at the heart of the solo
repertoire into the 21st-century, even though his orchestral and operatic
music has generally fallen from favour, but his Elegia for double bass and
piano is one of the most recorded works of the 20th-century. Giovanni
Bottesini died in Parma on 7 July 1889.
