Giuseppe Acerbi
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Italy
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naturalist
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, explorer and composer.
Biography
Acerbi was born in Castel GoffredoCastel Goffredo
Castel Goffredo is a comune in the province of Mantova, in Lombardy, Italy, lying from Mantua and a few more from Brescia. It lies in a region of springs at the foot of the slopes that contain Lake Garda, towards the plain of the Po....
. In 1798 Acerbi travelled to Lapland
Lapland (region)
Lapland is a region in northern Fennoscandia, largely within the Arctic Circle. It streches across Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula . On the North it is bounded by the Barents Sea, on the West by the Norwegian Sea and on the East by the White Sea...
, publishing his experiences in Travels through Sweden, Finland and Lapland to the North Cape in the years 1798 and 1799 (1802).
There, he collected some Finnish folk melodies, one of which he used in a Clarinet Concerto. This was the first Finnish melody to be used in serious music.