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17-876: After the death of the two founders, the violist Luigi Sagrati became the main organizer of the quintet's recording and performing activities until the mid-nineties, when he had to quit public performances because of old age. The group toured Southern Africa in 1959 as Quintetto Boccherini, and were again in demand in 1960 as Quartetto Carmirelli di Roma. The quintet has recorded many LPs in Italy and abroad, mainly of music by Luigi Boccherini but also string quintets by Antonio Bazzini , Franz Schubert and Luigi Cherubini . Their records have been published by various recording houses like His Master's Voice , Fonit Cetra - Italia, Ensayo, EMI - Angel Records . A two-record album, played by Cervera, Buccarella, Sagrati, Scano and Stella, and entirely dedicated to Boccherini's quintets, and issued by

34-737: A series of concerts devoted to works composed for Tertis. A CD, The Tertis Tradition , was issued in 2009. In 2015, English Heritage unveiled a blue plaque at his Wimbledon, London home. Many fine English violists were students of Tertis, including Harry Berly , Rebecca Clarke , Eric Coates , Winifred Copperwheat , Paul Cropper , Harry Danks , C. Sidney Errington, Watson Forbes , Max Gilbert, Hope Hambourg , Raymond Jeremy , James Lockyer , Frederick Riddle , Ian Ritchie, Philip Sainton , Beryl Scawen Blunt, Bernard Shore , Gilbert Shufflebotham , Jacqueline Townshend , Maurice Ward and Lena Wood . For viola and piano unless otherwise noted Lionel Tertis made recordings in ensembles: and as

51-604: Is how it was taken across the English Channel." Tertis preferred a large viola to get an especially rich tone from his instrument. Knowing that some would find a 17-1/8-inch instrument too large he created his own Tertis model, which provides many of the tonal advantages of the larger instrument in a manageable 16-3/4-inch size. Tertis sold the 1717 Montagnana to his pupil Bernard Shore in 1937, who in turn passed it on to his pupil Roger Chase . Along with William Murdoch (piano), Albert Sammons , and Lauri Kennedy , Tertis formed

68-565: The Brahms Quartet for strings and piano with Piero Masi (pianoforte), Marco Scano (Cello) and Montserrat Cervera (violin). With both groups he completed many tournées in Europe and around the world, including thirteen in North America. Both groups also recorded many records for various recording houses, including His Master's Voice , Italia, Ensayo . From 1977 to his death he was president of

85-600: The Chamber Music Players . He also encouraged and coached Sidney Griller as he worked to found the Griller Quartet in 1928, and influenced the Griller's enthusiasm for the first Viennese School. In 1937, while at the height of his powers, he announced his retirement from the concert platform to concentrate on teaching. He appeared as soloist only one more time, at a special concert in 1949 to an invited audience at

102-629: The Quintetto Boccherini . Bonucci and Carmirelli had just bought in Paris a complete collection of the 141 string quintets by Luigi Boccherini, and set about to promote this long forgotten music. After the deaths of Bonucci and Carmirelli, Luigi Sagrati became the main force behind the success of the Quintetto Boccherini, which ceased its activities in the 1990s, when he had to stop performing professionally because of his age. Sagrati also founded

119-606: The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London. There he was encouraged by the principal, Alexander Mackenzie , to take up the viola instead. Under the additional influence of Oskar Nedbal , he did so and rapidly became one of the best known violists of his time, touring Europe and the US as a soloist. As Professor of Viola at the RAM (from 1900), he encouraged his colleagues and students to compose for

136-601: The Unione Musicisti di Roma , with whose chamber orchestra he worked to spread musical culture in the Latium region. The orchestra also collaborated with Ennio Morricone for the sound track of some of this famous films. He was married to the Sicilian soprano Lidia Cremona (1919-1998), who was a well known performer in the 1940s and 1950s. He owned two violas: a " Tertis model" Capicchioni of 1956 and one made by Roberto Bianchi in

153-554: The 1980s. For most of his career he played with a bow made by Dominique Peccatte in the 1870s. Lionel Tertis Lionel Tertis , CBE (29 December 1876 – 22 February 1975) was an English violist . He was one of the first viola players to achieve international fame, and a noted teacher. Tertis was born in West Hartlepool , the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants. He first studied violin in Leipzig, Germany and at

170-520: The RAM to help raise money for his fund to encourage the composition of music for the viola. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1950 New Year's Honours. Tertis composed several original works and also arranged many pieces not originally for the viola, such as Edward Elgar 's Cello Concerto . He was the author of a number of publications about string playing,

187-691: The Spanish recording house Ensayo in 1976, won the Grand Prix du Disque of L'Académie Charles Cros . Some of the quintet's recordings have been re-issued on CD in the UK by Testament Records at the beginning of the 21st century. Many musicians played in the Quintet over the years. In addition to the two aforementioned founders, the original Quintetto included Dino Asciolla (who alternated with Carmirelli as first violin), Renzo Sabatini (viola) and Nerio Brunelli (cello). Among

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204-427: The concerto. He owned a 1717 Montagnana from 1920 to 1937 which he found during one of his concert tours to Paris in 1920, and took a chance in acquiring. According to his memoirs, it was "shown to me in an unplayable condition, without bridge, strings or fingerboard.... No case was available – it was such a large instrument 17 1/8 inches – so my wife came to the rescue by wrapping it in her waterproof coat, and that

221-549: The instrument, thereby greatly expanding its repertoire. In 1906, Tertis was temporarily in the famous Bohemian Quartet to replace the violist/composer Oskar Nedbal and later he took the viola position in the Walenn Quartet . Composers such as Arnold Bax , Frank Bridge , Gustav Holst , Benjamin Dale , York Bowen , Ralph Vaughan Williams , Arthur Bliss , Arnold Trowell and William Walton wrote pieces for him. The Walton piece

238-452: The most notable of the several other players one recalls Guido Mozzato, Montserrat Cervera, Arrigo Pelliccia, Marco Fiorini and Claudio Buccarella (violins); Marco Scano (first cello); Piero Stella (second cello); and Luigi Sagrati (viola). Works by Antonio Bazzini : Works by Luigi Boccherini : Works by Luigi Cherubini : Works by Franz Schubert : Luigi Sagrati Luigi Sagrati (Rome, 10 November 1921 – Rome 20 March 2008)

255-452: The viola in particular, and his own life. They include Cinderella No More and My Viola and I . Lionel Tertis died on 22 February 1975 in Wimbledon, London . He was 98 years old. The Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition was established in 1980 to honour his memory. In February 2007 Roger Chase, along with his accompanist, pianist Michiko Otaki , initiated "The Tertis Project,"

272-485: Was an Italian violist . He began studying the violin very young, and graduated cum laude from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. In the immediate postwar period he began an intensive concert activity in Italy and abroad. He began to study the viola in the early 1950s and switched to this instrument on a full-time basis when was invited by Pina Carmirelli and Arturo Bonucci to replace Renzo Sabatini in

289-637: Was his Viola Concerto ; however, Tertis did not give the world premiere as he found it difficult to comprehend at the time; that honour went to Paul Hindemith . His pupil Bernard Shore took on the second performance at the Proms in August 1930. Tertis first performed the work a month later at the International Society for Contemporary Music festival in Liège. Over the next three years he gave five more performances of

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