Name: Rossini - Can-Can from La Boutique Fantasque (String Quartet Parts) - Parts Digital Download
SKU: B&D13910 Parts Digital Download
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Rossini retired from a highly successful and lucrative career as an opera composer before he was 40 years old, and although he lived almost another 40 years he wrote very little more music except for some short piano pieces of a dance-like nature that he called Sins of Old Age. Some of these piano pieces were collected several decades after the composers death and were turned into a ballet by Ottorino Respighi – this is one of those pieces, now arranged by Carlo Martelli for string quartet.

SKU: B&D13910 Parts Digital Download Category: Rossini, Gioacchino

Piece Description

Additional information

Media	Digital Download
Composer	Gioacchino Rossini
Arranger	Carlo Martelli
Instrumentation	String Quartet
Difficulty	Difficult
Series	Classic String Quartet Collection

Biography

Martelli, Carlo

Carlo Martelli was born on the 12th December 1935 in London to an Italian father and an English mother. By the age of eleven Carlo had developed a passion for the symphony orchestra. Just before his twelfth birthday he started taking regular violin lessons and very soon began writing elaborate orchestral scores achieving a mastery in this field by the age of sixteen, by which time he had obtained a County Scholarship to attend the Royal College of Music in London, studying composition and viola. By the time he was 21 he had written a string quartet and had already had a great deal of success with several large scale serious symphonic compositions, notably his Second Symphony, which had many performances and broadcasts by several major orchestras in the few years after its completion. In the 1960's he turned to film music to make a living, and also worked steadily as a freelance viola player. His arrangements for string quartet, trio and other combinations number well over 250 and are played by hundreds of groups all over the world.