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Please submit sites dealing with the life or music of Luigi Boccherini, including biographies, discographies, analyses of his compositions, or bibliographies.

Italian Classical period composer Luigi Boccherini was born in 1743 and died in 1805. He lived and worked in Paris and Madrid and was Prussian court composer for a time. He revolutionized cello music. His most famous work is a minuet from his String Quintet in E-major, Opus 13.

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