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Bottesini

Bottesini, Giovanni, was born in 1823 at Crema, Lombardy. He became the greatest master of his time of the double-bass, and in 1846 was appointed director of the Italian Opera in Barcelona, Havana, Palermo, and Paris. His Methode Complete de Contre-basse is a leading work. He died in 1889.