What does La Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid mean?

La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid, literally, the night music of the streets of Madrid, was an attempt to recreate what residents of the Spanish capital could expect to hear each night. First there was the Ave Maria of the main church, in which the instruments imitate the tolling of the church bell.

Why was Boccherini’s Passa Calle not published?

It was not published until several years after Boccherini’s death, in part because the composer told his publisher that “The piece is absolutely useless, even ridiculous, outside Spain because the audience cannot hope to understand its significance nor the performers to play it as it should be played.”

What kind of music did Luigi Boccherini play?

Within Spain itself, during his lifetime, the work became quite famous in arrangements of it Boccherini made for piano quintet and also for string quartet and guitar, in which version it has perhaps become best known. Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) was born in the town of Lucca in northern Italy.