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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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