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 1743 to 1805.
The Italian composer Luigi Boccherini was attached to the Court of the Spanish Infante, Louis Anton (1727–85), brother of King Charles III of Spain (1759–88). For having married a common ci...
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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 1743 to 1805.
The Italian composer Luigi Boccherini was attached to the Court of the Spanish Infante, Louis Anton (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 Avila province. As a courtier of Louis Anton, 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:
The composition was famous in Spain during Boccherini’s life; the best-known versions are arrangements of the Ritirata (Retreat)...
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