Luigi Sagrati
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Luigi Sagrati was an Italian violist
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He began studying the violin very young, and graduated cum laude from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. In the immediate postwar period he began an intensive concert activity in Italy and abroad. He began to study the viola
in the early 1950s and switched to this instrument on a full time basis when was invited by Pina Carmirelli
and Arturo Bonucci to replace Renzo Sabatini in the Quintetto Boccherini
. Bonucci and Carmirelli had just bought in Paris a complete collection of the 141 string quintets by Luigi Boccherini, and set about to promote this long forgotten music. After the deaths of Bonucci and Carmirelli, Luigi Sagrati became the main force behind the success of the Quintetto Boccherini, which ceased its activities in the 1990s, when he had to stop performing professionally because of his age.
Sagrati also founded the Brahms Quartet for strings and piano with Piero Masi (pianoforte), Marco Scano (Cello) and Montserrat Cervera (violin).
With both groups he completed many tournées in Europe and around the world, including thirteen in North America. Both groups also recorded many records for various recording houses, including His Master's Voice, Italia, Ensayo.
From 1977 to his death he was president of the Unione Musicisti di Roma, with whose chamber orchestra he worked to spread musical culture in the Latium region. The orchestra also collaborated with Ennio Morricone
for the sound track of some of this famous films.
He was married to the Sicilian soprano Lidia Cremona (1919-1998), who was a well known performer in the 1940s and 1950s. He owned two violas: a "Tertis
model" Capicchioni of 1956 and one made by Roberto Bianchi in the 1980s. For most of his career he played with a bow made by Dominique Peccatte
in the 1870s.
Violist
-Notable violists:A* Julia Rebekka Adler * Sir Hugh Allen , conductor* Kris Allen * Johann Andreas Amon * Paul Angerer , composer* Steven Ansell * Atar Arad * Cecil Aronowitz...
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Viola
The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
in the early 1950s and switched to this instrument on a full time basis when was invited by Pina Carmirelli
Pina Carmirelli
Pina Carmirelli was an Italian violinist.She started studying music and playing in public when she was very young. She was a pupil of Michelangelo Abbado, and graduated from the Milan Conservatory in violin and composition . She won the Premio Stradivari in 1937 and the Premio Paganini in 1940...
and Arturo Bonucci to replace Renzo Sabatini in the Quintetto Boccherini
Boccherini Quintet
The Boccherini Quintet was a string quintet founded in Rome in 1949 when two of its original members, Arturo Bonucci and Pina Carmirelli, discovered and bought, in Paris, a complete collection of the first edition of Luigi Boccherini's 141 string quintets, and set about to promote this long...
. Bonucci and Carmirelli had just bought in Paris a complete collection of the 141 string quintets by Luigi Boccherini, and set about to promote this long forgotten music. After the deaths of Bonucci and Carmirelli, Luigi Sagrati became the main force behind the success of the Quintetto Boccherini, which ceased its activities in the 1990s, when he had to stop performing professionally because of his age.
Sagrati also founded the Brahms Quartet for strings and piano with Piero Masi (pianoforte), Marco Scano (Cello) and Montserrat Cervera (violin).
With both groups he completed many tournées in Europe and around the world, including thirteen in North America. Both groups also recorded many records for various recording houses, including His Master's Voice, Italia, Ensayo.
From 1977 to his death he was president of the Unione Musicisti di Roma, with whose chamber orchestra he worked to spread musical culture in the Latium region. The orchestra also collaborated with Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...
for the sound track of some of this famous films.
He was married to the Sicilian soprano Lidia Cremona (1919-1998), who was a well known performer in the 1940s and 1950s. He owned two violas: a "Tertis
Lionel Tertis
Lionel Tertis, CBE was an English violist and one of the first viola players to find international fame.Tertis was born in West Hartlepool, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, and initially studied the violin in Leipzig and at the Royal Academy of Music in London...
model" Capicchioni of 1956 and one made by Roberto Bianchi in the 1980s. For most of his career he played with a bow made by Dominique Peccatte
Dominique Peccatte
Dominique Peccatte was an influential French luthier and bow maker. He was apprenticed in Mirecourt and later worked with Jean Baptiste Vuillaume....
in the 1870s.