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Braga Sheet Music and Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Gaetano Braga
9 June 1829 – 21 Nov 1907 <\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Gaetano Braga was a composer and cellist born on 9th June 1829 in the southern Italian region of Abruzzi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

La Serenata or Angel’s Serenade<\/a> was a particularly famous piece of Braga’s and we have several arrangements on music-scores.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Braga showed an early talent for music and despite it not being his parent’s first choice of career he went to the college of San Pietro a Maiella. He displayed such an incredible talent the director of the college had a cello specifically made for him by Nicola Gagliano<\/a> the violin maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Career<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Braga began his career as a cellist and performed in Florence, Bologna, Trieste, and Vienna. He then went onto Paris and played compositions by Haydn<\/a>, Mozart<\/a>, Beethoven, <\/a>and Mendelssohn<\/a>. He was a very popular cellist and also a highly sought-after singing teacher by the artists of Theater Italian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Braga played with some of the best performers of that time including Liszt<\/a>, Gounod<\/a>, Bizet<\/a>, Saint Saens<\/a>, Rubinstein<\/a>, and Bottesini<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was friends with Giovanni Rossini <\/a>and dedicated his piece ‘The Adventurers’ to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He wrote Estrella di San Germano for the theatrical organiser Bartolomeo Merelli<\/a> and it was performed infront of the emporer in Vienna. When Prince Leopold heard Estrella he commissioned Braga which resulted in the successful performance of Il Ritratto 1858.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Braga continued with theatrical opera with successes and failures and as a master of the cello. Leggenda Valacca also known a La Serenata, Angel’s Serenade is still a popular and piece and there is a lovely performance on YouTube if you click on the image below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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