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Luigi Boccherini was the third child of the musician Leopoldo Boccherini and his wife Maria Santa, nee Prosperi. Leopoldo's activities as a singer, and from 1747 as a second double bass player in the Cappella Palatina, allowed the family only a modest standard of living in their hometown of Lucca. Thanks to intensive parental encouragement, the Boccherini children developed their considerable artistic talents early.

Luigi Boccherini probably had his first musical education from his father, as was usual in musicians' families. He also received comprehensive musical training from the cellist Domenico Fracesco Vannucci. In the autumn of 1753 he went to study in Rome, where G.B. Costanzi. It is not known exactly how long he remained there, but he was back in Lucca by the summer of 1756, making his debut on 4 August 1756 with a cello concerto.

In 1757 Boccherini may have accomplished his father and his elder siblings at engagements in Venice and Trieste. In any case, he made a very successful appearance with his father in Vienna in the spring of 1758 as a soloist. In Vienna, Boccherini encountered strong competition as a soloist. Neither Vienna nor the Italian cities could offer a cello virtuoso of the time th

Boccherini's wife and his patron Don Luis both died in 1785. At his petition, King Carlos III granted him an annual pension of 12,000 reals and he was promised the next place to fall vacant in the Real Capilla. At the end of 1785 or early in 1786 Boccherini returned to Madrid and was nominally appointed a member of the Real Capilla.

 2 octets for various instruments

 6 sonatas for violin and bass

 12 quintets for 2 violins, 2 violas, and cello

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