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In addition to his extraordinary accomplishments as a double bass virtuoso and conductor, Giovanni Bottesini is also credited with nearly 300 compositions, encompassing opera, oratorio, chamber music and instrumental music, much of it for the double bass. That there has never been any meaningful attempt to catalogue or publish Bottesini’s output is surprising, but the double bassist Stephen Street, perturbed by evident discrepancies in many current editions, notably in the music for double bass, has embarked on the ambitious project of cataloguing and publishing an urtext edition of Bottesini’s complete works. Fittingly, this monumental quest begins with Bottesini’s Complete Method for the Double Bass, which is then followed by the String Quartet op.2.