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Giuseppe Dall’Abaco (1710–1805) was the son of Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco (1675–1742), and like him had a successful career as a cellist, concertmaster and composer spent mostly in the service of high-ranking members of the Wittelsbach dynasty in south-west Germany (Munich for Evaristo Felice, Bonn for Giuseppe). The family hailed from Verona in the Venetian republic, where Evaristo Felice was born and to which Giuseppe retired in later life. The elder Dall’Abaco has been regarded as an excellent composer ever since the late nineteenth century, but the revival of Giuseppe’s music, centred on his numerous works for cello, is much more recent.
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