Italy On This Day

Musician was also a composer and conductor Giovanni Bottesini took up the double bass so he could attend Milan Conservatory The comp...

Paganini’s successor was also a talented composer Camillo Sivori was the protégé of the virtuoso Niccolò Paganini Ernesto Camillo Si...

Venetian was best double bass player in Europe Domenico Dragonetti: a lithograph from the New York City Public Library collection Th...