Haydn's Wife

He was nicknamed by his contemporaries as "Haydn's wife." Because Boccherini's compositions modeled after that of Franz Joseph Haydn. Afterall, Haydn was the father of the string quartet and the symphony. And, Boccherini's critics thought he would always be the "second fiddle or cello" to Haydn. As for me, Boccherini was a composer and cellist of the first order.

Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini
Italian classical composer and cellist
(19 February, 1743 - 28 May, 1805)
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Alexander Schneider Chamber Ensemble (1997)
Minuet in A
(from String Quartet in E, Op. 11, No. 5, 3rd Movement)