The achievements of Giovanni Bottesini (18211889) as a solo performer on the double bass tower above those of any other player before or since. In fact its hard to think of any other field of human endeavour where one person has gone so far beyond everybody else.For nearly fifty years he astonished and delighted audiences on four continents.This new biography The Paganini of the Double Bass Bottesini in Britain tells the complete life story of this remarkable man. He visited Britain over twenty times and performed in around 800 concerts including thirteen lengthy national tours. His many appearances in London throughout the Victorian era took place in a changing musical scene, as rival opera companies went to war, and concert promoters experimented with different ways of presenting music to the public.Bottesini, almost uniquely, was an outstanding success at the most serious philharmonic concerts and the rowdiest popular events. He was particularly associated with the Proms. He appeared over 200 times between 1851 and 1887, and even shared conducting duties with Johann Strauss II for the 1867 season, but he did not quite live long enough to see the era of Henry Wood.Although this book covers Bottesinis career in Britain in most detail, it describes his entire lifehow his company in Havana raised the standards of opera in America in the late 1840show he had major conducting positions in Mexico, Paris, Barcelona, Cairo and Buenos Airesthe story behind how he came to conduct...

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