Lorenzo Bocchi

Lorenzo Bocchi was an eighteenth-century Italian cellist and composer. Although his biographical details are very thin, Bocchi was a figure of some importance in Scottish and Irish musical life in the 1720s. He was probably the first person to play the cello in Scotland and Ireland, and was involved in early attempts to establish regular concerts in Edinburgh and Dublin. He was an associate of Allan Ramsay senior, and seems to have been involved in the operatic experiments in Edinburgh that were to lead to the first Scottish opera