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Podcast: The Early Music Show
Episode: Live at Southbank Centre: Composer Profile - Locatelli
Description: Live at Southbank Centre.Lucie Skeaping explores the life and works of Pietro Antonio Locatelli, who died 250 years ago.One of the violin giants of the eighteenth century, Locatelli was born in Bergamo in 1695, but by the age of sixteen had moved to Rome, perhaps to study with the famous but ailing Arcangelo Corelli, but more likely with another prominent virtuoso, Giuseppe Valentini. His growing reputation as a violinist soon began to take him further afield, however, and we know of concert appearances during the 1720s in Mantua and Venice (both places in which he...