Giovanni Bottesini

Giovanni Bottesini turned the double bass into a solo instrument of astonishing agility. The Italian virtuoso, composer, and conductor wrote concertos, fantasies, operas, and chamber works that expanded the instrument’s technical and expressive range. His career made him one of the defining bass figures of the Romantic period.

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  Giovanni Bottesini as most influential contrabass maestro of the Romanticism

  Giovanni Bottesini was an Italian composer and legendary contrabassist of the Romantic period whose work for solo double...