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Carlo Alfredo Piatti
Carlo Alfredo Piatti

Carlo Alfredo Piatti (January 8, 1822 – July 18, 1901) was an Italian cellist. Events 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army Year 1822 (MDCCCXXII was a Common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Sunday of the Events 390 BC - Roman - Gaulish Wars Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting He was born at Borgo Canale, in Bergamo and died in Mozzo, 4 miles from Bergamo.

The cellist Alfredo Piatti made his concert debut at 15 and started touring at 16. No one doubted the young virtuoso's skill on the instrument, but he did not draw large crowds. As a result, when Piatti fell ill during an engagement, he was forced to sell his cello to cover the medical costs. Franz Liszt invited him to appear as a guest performer at one of his recitals; stunned by what the boy could do on a borrowed cello, Liszt presented him with a superb new instrument. Piatti went on to become one of the most celebrated cellists of his day, as popular for the pieces he wrote as for the robust and unsentimental way he performed them.

The son of a violinist, Antonio Piatti, he originally began his studies on the violin before switching to the cello. As a cellist, he studied under his grandfather, Gaetario Zanetti, a great cellist. After two years of studying, he joined the theater orchestra, where he played for three months - for ten shillings, half of which his grandfather took. After Zanetti's death, he became a pupil at the conservatorio of Milan under Merighi. From 1838, he journeyed over Europe, playing with extraordinary success in all the important cities of the continent. In 1844 he appeared before the London public at a Philharmonic Concert. Year 1844 ( MDCCCXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year In 1859, on the foundation of the Popular Concerts, he took up the work with which he was most intimately connected for thirty-nine seasons. He retained until 1897 the post of first violoncello at these famous chamber concerts, during the latter half of each series. He played a Stradivarius which now is named after him Piatti and is owned by the Mexican cellist Carlos Prieto. Carlos Prieto is a Mexican cellist and writer He plays a Stradivarius cello named "The Piatti" after Carlo Alfredo Piatti, affectionatelly

He composed two cello concertos, one cello concertino, six cello sonatas, lieder for voice and cello accompaniment, and cello solos, as well as a cello method. A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a Concerto for solo Cello with Orchestra or very occasionally smaller groups A concertino (or Konzertstück) is a short Concerto freer in form A cello sonata usually denotes a sonata written for Cello and Piano, though other instrumentations are used such as solo cello de Lied (plural de Lieder) (liːt plural) is a German word meaning literally " Song " among English speakers however the word In Music, accompaniment is the art of playing along with a soloist or ensemble, often known as the Lead, in a Supporting manner In Music, a solo (from the Italian solo, meaning alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer In music a method is a kind of Textbook for a specified Musical instrument or a selected problem of playing a certain instrument

Contents

Compositions

Cello Solo

Cello and Piano

Cello and Orchestra

Two Cellos

Four Cellos

Transcriptions of works by other composers

Brahms-Piatti: Twenty-One Hungarian Dances (1881)

References

Alfredo Piatti Official Website Piatti 12 Caprices info

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