The statue dedicated to Geminiani is inaugurated in Piazza Guidiccioni, Lucca.

With an official ceremony, the new statue dedicated to the Lucchese musician Francesco Xaverio Geminiani was inaugurated in Piazza Guidiccioni. In this way the city payed homage to a musician and composer who, together with Luigi Boccherini, Alfredo Catalani and, of course, Maestro Giacomo Puccini, contributed to making Lucca a city of music, internationally recognized.
The municipal administration considered important to accept the solicitation from the cultural association Francesco Xaverio Geminiani of Lucca - declares the mayor Alessandro Tambellini:
"We believe that the statue of Geminiani from now on can become a presence and a significant cultural reference point, which will ideally be connected to the other two statues, the bronze one dedicated to Maestro Puccini in Piazza della Cittadella and the one dedicated to Boccherini. in piazza del Suffragio, as well as to the monument dedicated to Alfredo Catalani which is located on the San Paolino bulwark”.
The statue, the work of the artist Nicola Domenici, from Viareggio, reproduces the entire figure of the Maestro Geminiani equipped with his musical instrument, the violin, slightly larger than the natural one to indicate mastery in the use of that instrument. The sculpture of Carrara marble, has a height of two and a half meters and together with the base, also in marble, exceeds 4 meters in height from the street level. It was placed right in Piazza Guidiccioni, in front of the building which houses the State Archives.
Francesco Xaverio Geminiani was born in Lucca in 1687. After his studies and specialization in Rome, he emigrated to London in his thirties, where he carried out an intense activity as a concert player and composer. He played at the court of King George I and the Earl of Essex was his patron for a long time. After London he moved to Dublin, where still active at the age of 72, he gave his last concert and died in 1762.
He was buried in the churchyard of the former parish church of Ireland in Dublin, September 1762. Today this is the place of the Central Tourist Office in Dublin. In 1929 Geminiani's remains were brought back to his birthplace and re-interred at the Chiesa di San Francesco, beside the tomb of
another famous musician and Lucca native, Luigi Boccherini.
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