Now playing: Boccherini: String Quartet in E flat Major, G 191 | Quiroga Quartet · MarchVivo by MarchVivo. Paused, Muted
Boccherini: String Quartet in E flat Major, G 191 | Quiroga Quartet · MarchVivo
During the summers of 1783 and 1784, Boccherini and Goya met at the Palacio de la Mosquera, situated in Arenas de San Pedro. The Infante Don Luis had taken up residence in this town in Ávila, having been ordered by Charles III to keep his distance from the court. The aristocrat, a patron of both the painter and the musician, would have this Quartet, Op. 24 No. 3, performed in his salons. Boccherini had composed it between 1776 and 1778, and with its three movements, it departs from the canonical