John the Baptist Polledro ( Piovà , June 10 1781 - Asti , August 15 1853 ) was a violinist and composer Italian .
He was the last great exponent of the violin school of Piedmont 800. At age 15 he studied for a short time under Gaetano Pugnani and soon enters the real bandwidth of Turin. His first public appearance takes place in 1797. In 1801 he moved to Milan in 1804 and then became first violin in the Theatre in Bergamo. But after a short time he began to travel. He lives for five years in Russia in Moscow and St. Petersburg and also visit Warsaw. In 1812, in Karlsbad , performs a sonata youth of Ludwig van Beethoven accompanied on the piano by the same author. Approving the appointment of concertmaster (first violin) to the Chapel of the court of Dresden from 1814 to 1823, in the service of Frederick Augustus III (later King of Saxony with the name Frederick Augustus I). In 1823 he became the first violinist of the Royal Chapel of Carlo Felice in Turin and director of the Teatro Regio until 1844. Later he retired to private life in his native country, Piovà (today Piovà Housewife) in the province of Asti. Friend and pupil of Niccolò Paganini Paganini in 1829 ... had planned a trip to England, but for health reasons in Germany advised him to suspend temporarily to perform and he tried to minimize by saying, '... I gave here yesterday the 5th concert: maybe I'll have to give as much. I resisted this winter: you conclude that I'm not so bad! ... '. In those concerts will be replaced by Foaly, encouraging and authorizing it to appear on the poster as his pupil, saying in a letter: '... I do not mind, and you will not be disadvantageous: do yourself and let me honor! ...'. Text source : Wikipedia (Hide extended text) ... (Read all)
