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PIATTI, CARLO ALFREDO (1822-1901)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 575 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PIATTI, CARLO ALFREDO (1822-1901) , Italian violoncellist, was born at Bergamo on the 8th of January 1822. He was the son of a violinist, and became a pupil at the conservatorio of
Milan
 . From 1838 onwards he journeyed over Europe, playing with extraordinary success in all the important cities of the continent. In 1844 he appeared before the London public at a Philharmonic Concert; and in 1859, on the foundation of the Popular Concerts, he took up the
work
  with which he was most intimately connected for thirty-nine seasons, retaining until 1897 the post of first violoncello at these famous chamber concerts, during the latter
half of each
series
 . His purely classical style, his wide musical During a visit to England in 1788 he procured from Jesse Ramsden a five-foot altazimuth, with which he collected at
Palermo
 , 1792-1813, the materials for two admirable
star
 -catalogues, published in 1803 and 1814 respectively. While engaged on this
work
  he discovered, on the 1st of January 1801, the first asteroid or
minor
 
planet
 , to which he gave the name of Ceres, the tutelary deity of Sicily. He died at Naples on the 22nd of July 1826.
See B. E. Maineri, L'Astronomo Giuseppe Piazzi (
Milan
 , 1871); R.
Wolf
 , Biographien, Bd. iv. p. 275; Monatliche Correspondenz (1810; portrait), xxi. 46; Astr. Jahrbuch, liv. 218; Bulletin des sciences (1826), vi. 339; Edin.
Journal
  of Science (1827), vi. 193; Memoirs Roy. Astr. Soc. iii. 119; R. Grant, Hist. Phys. Astronomy,
pp. 238, 510, 549.


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