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Boccherini had brough
string music to Spain, invented

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his quintet forms
and composed over 100 works.

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But he was ye
to write his most famous piece.

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We met Yvonne again
to hear how it happened.

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Buccherini had moved to Madrid.

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Been there for a decade.

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And of course, he fell in love
with the city. At that time,

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he was in the service
of Infante Don Luís,

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the king's younger brother.
The Prince

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married a commoner,

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and the king didn't like that
and sent him away.

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And of course, with him,
the whole court.

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Boccherini included.

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So probably this is the way
that Boccherini ended up

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living in a castle like thi
beautiful one that we have here.

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During that time,
there were plenty of castles

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all around, especiall
throughout the Sierra de Madrid.

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So Boccherini missed
Madrid so much, particularly

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the energy of the night time
and the streets of Madrid.

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And he immediately started
to work on a new composition

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titled “Musica notturna delle
strade di Madrid.”

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I think this is the piece
I read that Boccherini

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said that this piece
is absolutely useless

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for anyone
living outside of Spain.

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The performers
won't know how to play it,

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and the audience will have
no shot at understanding it.

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And I think the reason for that
is it's it's so

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Madrid, it's so specific.

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There's so many inside
jokes in the piece, it seems.

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That's correct.

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At that time,
there were hundreds

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of manuscripts and copies
completely unauthorized.

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So the problem was that

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perhaps for him
was quite surprising

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to be famous
because of that kind of piece

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and not for 100 quintets
or 100 quartets

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and a lot of symphonies
that he wrote.

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He went viral before that
was even a thing.

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So Boccherini
wrote seven movements,

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which are intended to be
from the sunsets to curfew.

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So he added some very specific
instructions in Italian

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about how that movements
had to be played.

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First one...

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The Ava Maria bells
sounded 30 minutes

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approximately
after the sunset every day

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and it creates a very, very nice
and very specific atmosphere.

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Wow. Can we try?

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Does that sound like bells?

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Absolutely. Bravo.

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Then we have another
instruction.

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Something like that.

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Bravo, that's amazing.

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And there's also one
very funny indication

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Strum the strings as a guitar.

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Yeah, but there's
one important detail

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with your fingernails

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using that part
of the hand. Yes.

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