Editing Double bass (section)

====1800s====
[[File:BottesiniTestore.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.7|The virtuoso nineteenth-century bassist and composer Giovanni Bottesini with his 1716 Carlo Antonio Testore bass]]
In the 19th century, the opera conductor, composer, and bassist [[Giovanni Bottesini]] was considered the "[[Niccolò Paganini|Paganini]] of the double bass" of his time, a reference to the violin virtuoso and composer. Bottesini's bass [[concerto]]s were written in the popular Italian [[opera]] style of the 19th century, which exploit the double bass in a way that was not seen beforehand. They require virtuosic runs and great leaps to the highest registers of the instrument, even into the realm of natural and [[artificial harmonic]]s. Many 19th century and early 20th century bassists considered these compositions unplayable, but in the 2000s, they are frequently performed. During the same time, a prominent school of bass players in the [[Czech lands|Czech region]] arose, which included Franz Simandl, Theodore Albin Findeisen, Josef Hrabe, [[Ludwig Manoly]], and [[Adolf Mišek]]. Simandl and Hrabe were also pedagogues whose method books and studies remain in use in the 2000s.