| Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid | |
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| String quintet by Luigi Boccherini | |
 Luigi Boccherini | |
| Key | C major |
| Catalogue | G. 324 |
| Opus | 30/6 |
| Genre | Classical music |
| Composed | 1780 |
| Movements | 7 |
| Scoring | Five stringed instruments |
Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid (Night Music of the Streets of Madrid), Opus 30 No. 6 (G. 324), is a quintettino (quintet) for stringed instruments (ca. 1780), by Luigi Boccherini, the Italian composer in service to the Spanish Court from 1761 to 1805. [1]
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The Italian composer Luigi Boccherini was attached to the Court of the Spanish Infante, Luis Antonio (1727–85), brother of King Charles III of Spain (1759–88). For having married a common citizen, King Charles exiled the Infante from the Madrid Court to the Arenas de San Pedro palace in Ávila province. As a courtier of Luis Antonio, Boccherini joined the exile, and found himself with much time for composition, and there completed more than one hundred pieces.
Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid describes the bustling streets of night-time Madrid; about the composition, critic Jaume Tortella writes:
While Tortella interprets Boccherini's work as a programmatic representation of Madrid's nightlife, Dutch conductor Dick van Gasteren believes that the work should above all be interpreted symbolically. Van Gasteren analyzed the work by analogy with iconography and came across countless references to politics, religion, visual arts, theater and love. He showed that the work with the technique of soggetto cavato and other symbolism contains references to, or is a serenade to, a secret love, the actress Maria del Rosario nicknamed La Tirana. [2]
The composition was famous in Spain during Boccherini's life; the best-known versions are arrangements of the Ritirata (Retreat) movement incorporated to the (G418) piano quintet, and the (G453) guitar quintet. The Night Music of the Streets of Madrid was published years after Boccherini's death, because, he told his publisher: "The piece is absolutely useless, even ridiculous, outside Spain, because the audience cannot hope to understand its significance, nor the performers to play it as it should be played."
Since the mid-twentieth-century revival of interest in the music of Luigi Boccherini, the Ritirata became well-known; Luciano Berio used it as the basis for a composition superimposing the four known settings of the Ritirata, all playing concurrently, ebbing and flowing synchronously and asynchronously. Despite its slightly jokey nature, like Berio's folk-song settings, his Ritirata interpretation is attractive and approachable, [3] acknowledging and expanding upon Boccherini's composition.
In 1975, the Boccherini Quintet, on the Ensayo record label, recorded an exceptional interpretation of Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid, that in 1976 won the Grand Prix du Disque, by the Académie Charles Cros.
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Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid comprises these movements:
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