Klarinet Archive - Posting 000681.txt from 1999/11

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Birth/Death Years for Luigi Bassi
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:14:14 -0500

>Mark Charette schrieb:
>
>> > Anyone know the birth/death years of Luigi Bassi (for program purposes=
)?
>> Bassi,Luigi (1833-1897)
>>
on 10/30/99 12:20 PM, David Glenn wrote:
>+++++++++++++++++++
>That's interesting. I don't know anymore *where* I have it from but my dat=
es
>for Luigi Bassi are 1833-1871. (He would have died aged 38 in that case.) =
I
>hear he was 1st clarinettist in the Scala of Milan and edited Lefevre's tu=
tor
>(publ. by Ricordi).
>
>Are these infos maybe (also??)wrong? I jotted them down on my copy of
>Rigoletto and forgot the source....

David - I looked in Weston "More Great Clarinet Virtuosi..." and found
the same dates you did, and the info about La Scala. Here is the entry.

Luigi Bassi (1833-71), Italian. Hans von B=FClow called him a "valentissimo=

artista." He was first clarinet at the Scala Theater, Milan, and is best
known as the composer of the popular "Rigoletto Fantasie." Quite early in
his career Bassi made an edition of Lefevre's tutor, which Ricordi
published. He also wrote a "Nocturne" and other Fantasies.

Sorry this is so late.

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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