Bottesini — Carnevale di Venezia: Luis Cabrera Martin — PDF Sheet Music

Bottesini — Carnevale di Venezia: Luis Cabrera Martin — PDF Sheet MusicThe popular melody The Carnival of Venice is based on a folk tune of Neopolitan origin that was originally known as O Mamma, Mamma Cara. It was first popularised in the world of classical music by violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini, who wrote a set of twenty variations on the tune. Bottesinis version is a similar idea, starting with an original introduction before the Carnival of Venice tune is heard in eight increasingly complex variations. The work is

and covers a wide spectrum of emotions

for a total of over 20 min of content

Piano accompaniment videos in Orchestral Tuning in 56 bpm and 60 bpm

Phoebe Alviz Russell and Bernardo Alviz

5 Tutorial videos

Bottesini in fact wrote two pieces based on this opera

Full score with annotations by the editor

and luscious harmonies

over 30 minutes of content

and is a beautiful work originally written for Furtok’s ensemble The Flying Basses

The bass part is provided in both clean and annotated versions

This particular part is in Tenor Clef