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And here is a painting of Luigi Boccherini, playing his cello, Circa 1764-1767, artist unknown. He looks happy and alert, doesn't he? And he played the...cello!! 
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My fellow townsman Boccherini!! Someday I will post a photo of me in front of the house where he lived, if you like.
I love his music too. Last Christmas I took this picture of a bust of him at a small square (it is named
Boccherini Square) next to the Royal Palace:
One of his best-known works is
Night Music of the Streets of Madrid. You probably know the 5th movement because of this:
Note the irony: An actor from
the antipodes playing that music in a film entitled "
The Far Side of the World".
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Sadly, this is how his life ends: "Boccherini fell on hard times following the deaths of his Spanish patron, two wives, and two daughters, and he died almost in poverty in Madrid in 1805."  |
That's what was assumed... until recently. A few years ago, one of his direct descendants studied his testament and other documents, and he came to the conclusion that Boccherini had a quite decent economic level at the end of his life.