Luigi Boccherini

Minuet - Luigi Boccherini - String Quintet in E Major, Op.11 No.5

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Heard this piece Saturday on the Music Choice (MC) Light Classical Channel.
This Youtube presentation is both musically and visually pleasing to me.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]Minuet - Luigi Boccherini - String Quintet in E Major, Op.11 No.5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fLPBIBOE5U

Heard this piece Saturday on the Music Choice (MC) Light Classical Channel.
This Youtube presentation is both musically and visually pleasing to me.[/b]

It is indeed a lovely piece well in keeping with the bucolic personality of a wonderfully creative composer. Boccherini hails from a rural area of Italy that produced a more famous and beloved composer, Puccini, and also where Napoleon was raised. Lucca, a lovely walled town.