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DIRECTORY / LIBRARYOF FAMOUS HISTORICAL

CELLISTS

Volume VII(1976 – 1999)

DIRECTORIO / BIBLIOTECA DE

VIOLONCELLISTAS HISTORICOS

FAMOSOS

Volumen VII

(1976 – 1999)


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ENGLISH -The johnstone-musicDIRECTORY / LIBRARY

OF FAMOUS HISTORICAL CELLISTS

PRESENTATION:Throughout history a number of interesting books have been published on the Cello – itsorigins, the performers, the makers/luthiers, and the repertoire. However, when reference ismade to cellists they are almost always classified and organized according to national music‘schools’. There has always been a necessity to see a real list of those contemporary cellists in

each era in chronological form, with details of professional positions or activities, and this isexactly what johnstone-music offers with this unique presentation.

IMPORTANT PRELIMINARY NOTE:Many people will probably simply browse with curiosity through this wonderful list of cellists who had such important careers in their time. However, it’s always a good idea to be able to doan easy search for a particular cellist that interests you! All individual inclusions of this libraryof cellists are in chronological order, following the order of the year of death. Why thismethod, and not by the more commonly used birth-year as a guide? Well, some cellists werechild prodigies and already famous in their teens, whilst others took several decades beforeestablishing themselves. Some enjoyed a very long life, such as Pau Casals, and were very activeafter reaching 65 years old – others unfortunately did not even reach 65 years old (or a few evento barely half this number).

That is to say that sometimes cellists of a same birth year often did not coincide musically atall. Therefore this present system is probably a much more accurate guide of their real workingperiods and their musical influences.

The chances are that you will probably not know exactly where to find the cellist you aresearching for, though you probably know his/her musical period.

Therefore, each volume gives all names with life-spans of a particular period at the beginningin alphabetical order , and from this you will be easily able to ascertain the relevant years for amore detailed entry. If the cellist that you are looking for is not where you imagine it to be,

then try the previous or following period/volume. Enjoy!

The order of text information is as follows: it should be obvious to follow!

Name :Dates :Country:Positions:Premieres given-Dedications received: Music/Publications:

Friendships: Anecdotes: johnstone-music article (if applicable)


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ESPAÑOL - johnstone-music

DIRECTORIO / BIBLIOTECA DE VIOLONCELLISTAS

HISTORICOS FAMOSOS

PRESENTACIÓN: A lo largo de la historia se han publicado un número de libros interesantes sobre el violoncello– sus orígenes, los intérpretes, sus lutieres y su repertorio. Sin embargo, cuando se hacereferencia a los violoncellistas, están casi siempre clasificados y organizados según las ‘escuelas

nacionales’ de violoncello. Siempre ha existido una necesidad de ver una lista real de loscellistas contemporáneos en cada época de forma cronológica (con sus respectivas posiciones oactividades), y esto es exactamente lo que johnstone-music ofrece con este trabajo único.

NOTA IMPORTANTE PRELIMINARIA:Probablemente mucha gente va a ojear con cierta curiosidad esta lista maravillosa de violoncellistas quienes tuvieron unas carreras tan importantes en su tiempo. Sin embargo, esuna buena idea poder hacer una búsqueda fácil para un violoncellista en particular que teinteresa. Todas las inclusiones individuales de esta biblioteca cellística están en ordencronológico,siguiendo el año de fallecimiento del cellista. ¿Y por qué este método, y no elsistema más común del año de nacimiento? Pues, algunos violoncellistas fueron prodigios y yacelebres casi de adolescentes, mientras que otros necesitaban varias décadas antes deestablecer sus nombres. Algunos disfrutaron de una vida muy larga, como Pau Casals, y fueronmuy activos después de cumplir 65 años – otros no llegaban desgraciadamente ni a los 65 años

de edad (algunos incluso apenas a la mitad de este número).Con todo esto queremos decir que algunas veces violoncellistas nacidos en el mismo año nocoincidieron musicalmente para nada. Por tanto, este sistema utilizado es probablemente unaguía mucho más fiel de sus periodos reales de trabajo y de sus influencias musicales.

Probablemente no vas a saber exactamente dónde encontrar el violoncellista que buscas,aunque tal vez sabrás de su época musical.

Así que el índice en cada volumen da todos los nombres (y fechas) al principio en ordenalfabético, y de esto puedes averiguar fácilmente los años relevantes e ir a su entrada másdetallada. Si el/la violoncellista que estás buscando no está donde lo imaginas, prueba el

periodo/volumen anterior o posterior ¡Disfrútalo!El orden de información en los textos es el siguiente: ¡debería ser fácil de seguir!

Nombre:Fechas:País:Posiciones:Estrenos efectuados - Dedicatorias recibidas:

Música/Publicaciones: Amistades:

Anécdotas:artículo en johnstone-music (si hubiera)


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VOLUME VII

Cellists with year of death in period 1976 - 1999

VOLUMEN VII

Violoncellistas con año de fallecimiento 1976 - 1999

CELLISTS:

ADAMSKA, Zofia (1903 – 1988) ADENEY, Marcus (1900 – 1998) ANFITHEATROF, Massimo (1907 – 1990)

BARATI, George (1913 – 1996)BAUMANN, Jörg (1940 – 1995)BISHA, Edward (Russell) (1927 – 1991)BLINDER, Boris (1898 – 1987)

BOCHMANN, Martin (1914 – 1983)BOLOGNINI, Ennio (1893 – 1979)BUTLER, Antonia (1909 – 1997)CERNY, Vasa ( 1900 – 1982)

CHERNIAVSKY, M. (1893 – 1982)COWLING, Elizabeth (1910 – 1997)CUMBO, Marion (1899 – 1990)CZAKO JANZER, Eva (???? – 1978)DICKSON, Joan (1921 – 1994)

DALZIEL, Alan (1931 – 1993)DUNN, Pauline (1922-1995)DU PRE, Jacqueline (1945 – 1987)FERRAZZANO, Nerón (1903 – 1977)FLEMING, Amaryllis (1925 – 1999)FOURNIER, Pierre (1906 – 1986)FRÉZIN, Adolphe (1906 – 1978)GARBOUSOVA, Raya (1909-1997)GENDRON, Maurice (1920 – 1990)

GINSBURG, Lev Solomonovich (1907 – 1981)


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HAMPTON, Colin (1911 – 1996)HOELSCHER, Ludwig (1908 – 1996)

HOOTON, Florence (1912 – 1988)IGLOI, Thomas (1947 – 1976)

JANIGRO, Antonio (1918 – 1989) VAN KAMPEN, Christopher (1945 – 1997)KENNEDY, Lauri (1898 – c.1985) (father)KENNEDY, John (1923 – 1978) (son)LAMONTAGNE, Yvette (1898 – 1992)MARCHÉSINI, Gaston (1904 – 1989)

MAINARDI, Enrico (1897 – 1976)

De MACHULA, Tibor (1912 – 1982)MAGG, Fritz (1914 – 1997)MATZ, Rudolf (1901 – 1988)MAYES, Samuel H. (1917- 1990)MAZZACURATI, Benedetto (1898 – 1984)MILLER, Frank (1912 – 1986)MITCHELL, Howard (1911 – 1988)(du) MOULIN, Theodore (1888 – 1978)MUSCANT, Peter (1900 – c. 1988)

NAVARRA, Andre (1911 – 1988)PASQUIER, Étienne (1905 – 1998)PEHA, Michel (1888 – 1982)PIATIGORSKY, Gregar (1903-1976)PINI, (Charles) Anthony (1900 – 1989)

PLEETH, William (1916 – 1999)REISS, Thelma (1906 – 1991)ROSE, Leonard (1918 – 1984)ROWELL, Margaret Avery (1900 – 1995)

SAIDENBERG, Daniel (1906 – 1997)SANDS, Joyce (1902 – 1984)

SCHUSTER, Joseph (1903 – 1976)SHAFRAN, Daniel (or Daniil) (1923 – 1997)SHARPE, Cedric (1891 – 1978)STURZENEGGER, Richard (1905 – 1976)STUTSCHEWSKY, Joachim (1891 – 1982)TORTELIER, Paul (1914 – 1990)TROTTA, Josep (1907 – 1979)


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VECTOMOV, Ivan (1902 – 1981) VECTOMOV, Saša (or Sasha, or Alexandr) (1930 – 1989)

WALLENSTEIN, Alfred (1898 – 1983) WENZINGER, August (1905 – 1996) WILKOMIRSKI, Kazimierz (1900-1995) YSSELSTYN, Cornelius (1904 – 1979)

Incomplete Dates:

BALDOVINO, Amadeo (1916 - ????)

CLARK, Raymond (???? - ????)HONEGGER, Henri (1904 – ???? {at least 1973})

JUST, Helen (???? - ????)KILBY, Reginald (1903-????)KOWALSKA, Halina (1913 - ????)KOWALSKI, Tadeusz (1904 - ????)MIEDLAR, Marian (1910 - ????)

MIKULSKI, Józef (1912 - ????)SCHMAR, Adam Lucjan (1903 - ????)

Curiosities:

AMSTERDAM, Morey (1914 – 1996) - comedian CHAPLIN, Charlie (1889 – 1977) - actor and film director

ESCHER, Rudolf (1912-1980) - composerKHACHATURIAN, Aram Il’yich (1903 – 1978) - composer(Van) OTTERLOO, Willem (1907-1982) - conductor (composer)


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Cellists:

Enrico Mainardi1897 – 1976Italy

Professor Academy of St. Cecilia (Rome), Professor Berlin Hochschule. Trio (withKulenkamp and Fischer). Recital duo with Zecchi. Director of short courses inEdinburgh, Lucerne and Mozarteum (Salzburg).Premieres:

Wagenseil - cello concertos (first modern performance following their discovery in

1953).Dedications:Pizzetti - Cello Concerto (1933– 4). Malipiero - Cello Concerto (1937) and Triple Concerto (1938).

Music/Publications:Own original works His compositions include four cello concertos, sonatas forcello (unaccompanied and with piano), more than 20 chamber works, songs andorchestral works.

Anecdotes:*Student of Magrini (Milan) and Becker (Berlin).* he played Reger's Fourth Sonata op.116 with the composer at piano.

* a teacher at Rome Santa Cecilia Conservatoire from 1933 to 1968.* Among his pupils were Siegfried Palm, Erkki Rautio and Joan Dickson


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Joseph Schuster1903 – 1976Russian descent (born Constantinople)Principal cello Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Principal cello New York PhilharmonicOrchestra.


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Gregor Piatigorsky 1903-1976Russia (Ukraine), (later U.S.A.)

Co-principal cello Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (under Furtwangler). Head of cellodepartment at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Professor Tanglewood,Boston University, and the University of Southern California. Chamber music groups with Artur Runbinstein (piano), William Primrose (viola) and Jascha Heifetz (violin).Dedications:

Hindemith – Cello Concerto,Hindemith – Cello Sonata,Prokofiev – Cello Concerto,Stravinsky – Suite Italienne,Walton – Cello Concerto,

Martinu – Variations on a theme of Rossini, for cello and piano.Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Cello Concerto and Figaro Concert Fantasy) . Artur Schnabel – Sonata for Solo Cello (1931),Ernst Toch – Impromptu (3 mts), Op.90/c (1963). Alexandre Tansman – Fantasie (1936, Miklós Rózsa – Toccata Capricciosa, Op.36 (1979 – dedicated to the memory of

Piatigorsky, fp by Jeffrey Solow)Premieres:

Webern – Cello Sonata,Webern – 2 Small pieces Vlc & pno.Castelnuovo-tedesco – Cello Concerto,

Walton – Cello Concerto (1957),Hindemith – Cello Concerto (1941)Shostakovich – Cello Sonata (first recording)


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Gregor Piatigorsky (cont)

Own Music/Publications:Wrote/arranged several cello works, including ‘Variations on a theme of Paganini’,and working with Stravinsky on the Pulcinella Suite to form ‘Suite Italienne’.

Anecdotes:

* Performed Strauss – Don Quixote with composer conducting.

Richard Sturzenegger1905 – 1976SwitzerlandMember Dreden Opera Orchestra. Berne Quartet. Professor (later director/principal)of Berne Conservatoire. Professor Zurich Musikhochschule.

Music/Publications:own original works, including 4 cello concertos, choral and chamber music (intonal styles). Published the first ‘original’ version of Boccherini – Bb majorconcerto.

Anecdotes:* Studied Zurich Conservatoire. Then a pupil of Casals and Alexanian (Paris) and NadieBoulanger. Later studied with Feuermann, and Toch (composition).* teacher of Walter Grimmer.

Thomas Igloi1947 – 1976Hungary (later Britain) Anecdotes:* pupil of Maurice Eisenberg, Douglas Cameron, Pablo Casals and Pierre Fournier.* Outstanding promise shown, but died very young …


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(in tango orchestra).

Nerón Ferrazzano1903 – 1977 ArgentinaMember of tango/light music orchestras-groups: Orchestra of Anselmo Aieta.Orchestra of Pedro Maffia. Orchestra of Osvaldo Fresedo (7 years). Orchestra ofPedro Laurenz. Orchestra of Horacio Salgán. Permanent Orchestra of RadioSplendid. Music: own original music, especially vocal and instrumental songs, many once recorded. Anecdotes:* pupil of Ennio Bolognini* also a proficient double bass player.* probably the most remarkable Argentinian cellist in the genre of tango before José LuisBragato.

INFORMATION BY ARGENCELLO

Theodore du Moulin1888 – 1978U.S.A. (son of French music teacher) Member of Chicago Symphony Orchestra 11 seasons (1912-23) and Principal celloduring one season (1918-19). Member Zukowski Trio of Chicago. Cellist od GreatLakes string Quartet, later re-named Chicago String Quartet. Chicago RadioOrchestra (1940s). Anecdotes:* His wife was also a member of the chicago Orchestra.


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Cedric Sharpe1891 – 1978Great BritainPrincipal cello Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, Philharmonic Quartet

Music: Own original worksFriendships: his playing was admired by Elgar, Barbarolli, Beecham, Ysaÿe, Sammons etc. Article in JOHNSTONE-MUSIC Ref. No. VLC 15

Adolphe Frézin1906 – 1978Belgium (later USA)Principal cello Orchestre Nationale (France). Member of Queen Elizabeth’s(Belgium) Personal trio. Paganini Quartet (America). Founder of Santa Barbara

Symphony Orchestra (USA). Principal cello Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.Principal cello Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Principal cello ClevelandOrchestra. Professor University of Texas.Premieres:

Castenuovo-Tedesco – Guitar Quintet (gtr + string quartet). Anecdotes:* pupil of Brussels Conservatoire* joined Paganini Quartet as successor to Robert Maas.* performed Strauss – Don Quixote with the composer conducting.

John Kennedy1923 – 1978BritainPrincipal cello Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London. Anecdotes:* son of cellist Lauri Kennedy; and father to violinist Nigel Kennedy.


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Eva Czako Janzer???? – 1978India (later Hungary, USA)Grumiaux Trio. Vegh Quartet. Professor University of Hanover. Professor IndianaUniversity School of Music. Anecdotes:

* Pupil Budapest Music Academy, Budapest.* wife of famed violist Georges Janzer.

Ennio Bolognini1893 – 1979 Argentina (later USA)Principal cello Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Founder Las Vegas PhilharmonicOrchestra. Friendships:

Casals, Feuermann. Anecdotes:* with Saint-Saens (played The Swan with composer), Strauss (played Sonata with composer).* Bolognini's cello is now at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. It is unique, in thatthere are 51 signatures inscribed on it, including those of Kreisler, Heiftz, Stern, Szigeti,Liberace, Jack Dempsey, Bruno Walter, Janos Starker, Eugene Ormandy, Miklos Rozsa, etc.Everywhere he went, he asked his friends to sign his cello.

Cornelius Ysselstyn1904 – 1979Holland, later CanadaCellist Bembeck Quartet. Cellist Parlow Quartet. Member Toronto SymphonyOrchestra, and CBC Symphony Orchestra. Professor at RCMT Anecdotes:* emigrated to Canada in 1936 (Toronto)* Pupils include Donald Whitton and Michael Kilburn.

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Josep Trotta1907 – 1979Spain (Catalonia)Principal cello Barcelona Municipal Orchestra. Principal cello Liceo Opera Orchestra.Member Quartet of Barcelona. Anecdotes:

* pupil of Soler. His playing was very influenced by Casals.

Ivan Večtomov 1902 – 1981CzechMember Prague Quartet. Principal cello German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague.

Principal cello Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.Premieres: Martinu – Concertino in C for solo cello and wind/brass ensemble.

Anecdotes:* pupil of Fr. Hegenbarta and Hans Wihan (Prague Conservatoire), and Diran Alexanian (inParis).* father of Sasha Večtomov

Lev Solomonovich Ginsberg1907 – 1981BielorussiaProfessor Moscow Conservatoire. Music/Publications: wrote books on a number of important historical string players. Anecdotes:* pupil of Semyon Kozopulov. Gained degree by dissertion on Boccherini, and doctorate forearly history investigation of the cello.


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(Photo taken about 1920)

Michel Penha1888 – 1982Holland (later USA)Tollefsen Piano Trio. Penha Trio. Principal cello Philadelphia Orchestra. Principalcello San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. California String Quartet. Abas StringQuartet. Roussel Trio (flute, vla and vlc). Anecdotes:* Pupil of Hugo Becker, Isaac Mossel and Joseph Salmon.* Principal cello in Philadelphia during 5 seasons.

Joachim Stutschewsky1891 – 1982UkraineFounder Viennese Trio and Quartet with Rudolf Kolisch. Activities in the area of Jewish music as a composer, cellist, journalist and organizer. He was the spiritusrector of the Societ for the Promotion of Jewish Music. Later dedicated almostexclusively to composing. Premieres:

Many premieres of works from the new Viennese School (led by Schoenberg).


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M. Cherniavsky

1893 – 1982RussiaSoloist

Anecdotes:* Student of Wierzbilowieszc, Popper and Walenn.

Vasa Cerny1900 – 1982CzechPrincipal cello Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Founder-member Janacek StringQuartet. Anecdotes:* pupil of Jan Burian (Prague Conservatoire).

Tibor de Machula ‘Tibby’ 1912 – 1982Hungary (later Germany, Holland)Principal Cello Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (invitation by Furtwängler),Principal cello Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amersterdam)Premieres:

Thärichen – Cello concerto.

Mackeben – Symphonic Ballade


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Alfred Wallenstein1898 – 1983USAMember San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Member Los angeles PhilharmonicOrchestra. Principal cello Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Principal cello New YorkPhilharmonic Orchestra. Music Director Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

Professor Juillard School of Music (New York). Anecdotes:* Toscanini advised him to become a conductor !

Martin Bochmann1914 – 1983Germany (later Turkey and Britain)Principal cello Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra. Member The Collegium Pro Arte.Professor Ankara Conservatoire. Professor Reading University. Anecdotes:* Was one of the last students of Hugo Becker.* Father to violinist Michael and composer Christopher.* Influential teacher of David Johnstone.

Benedetto Mazzacurati1898 – 1984Italy

Principal cello Orquestra Radio EIAR-RAI di Torino (Italia). Founder-member of‘I Virtuosi di Roma’. Professor Conservatoire of Turin. Professor Academia Chigianade Sienna. Music/Publications: wrote educational pieces for the cello. Worked as an editor of cello music.Friendships: Ettore Bonelli Anecdotes:* pupil of Serato in Bologna.* principal cello of the RAI orchestra 1939-52.* as an artist has played all across the world.

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Joyce Sands1902 – 1984 Australia, later Canada

Member Nuysse String Quartet. Cellist Harisay String quartet (Canada). Professor atthe TCM. Member Toronto symphony Orchestra (1931-36). Organizer of the FiresideMusic Club. Member Arcoda Trio. Cellist Carleton String Quartet (Ottawa), Principalcello Ottawa Philharmonic Orchestra (1957-59).Premieres:

Morris Kates – 3 Dialogues for cello and pianoDedications;

Morris Kates – Elegaic Variations (written in her memory 1984) Anecdotes:* raised in England, pupil of Hélène Dolmetsch, and later in Antwerp with Arnold Godene.

* lived during 1936-38 in Capetown, and then briefly in England (gave a Wigmore Hall recital).She then returned to Toronto, resuming her position in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.


Leonard Rose1918 – 1984U.S.A .NBC Orchestra, Principal cello Cleveland Orchestra, Principal cello New YorkPhilharmonic Orchestra. Trio (with Stern and Istomin).Professor Jeulliard School (New York), Professor Curtis Institute, and Galamian’sMeadowmount Summer School. Duos with Glenn Gould.Friendships: Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, George Szell and Bruno Walter.


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Lauri Kennedy1898 – c.1985 Australia (later Britain)Principal cello BBC Symphony Orchestra. Principal cello London PhilharmonicOrchestra. Duo with pianist-wife Dorothy McBride. Trio (with Daisy Kennedy andMcBride). Principal cello Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Professor Royal

Celloge of Music, London. Anecdotes:* largely self-taught.* father of cellist John Kennedy, and grand-father of violinist Nigel Kennedy. Article in JOHNSTONE-MUSIC Ref. No. VLC 15


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Pierre Fournier ‘The Aristrocat’ 1906 – 1986France (later Switzerland)Krettly String Quartet. Professor Ecole Normale (Paris), Trio (with Cortot andThibaud). Professor Paris conservatoire. Trio (with Szigeti and Achnabel).Dedications:

Works by Martinu including - 1st Sonatafor cello and piano (also premiere), and CelloConcerto No.1. (plus giving first performance of new re-scored version).

Nin – Suite Espagnole (4th movement – Andaluza). Martinon – Cello concerto.Frank Martin – Cello concerto.

Poulenc – Sonata (?).Premieres:

Ravel – Chansons madécasses.Faure – String Quartet (gave 2nd performance).Roussel – Cello Concerto (1937). Martinu (see above)

Friendships:Cortot, Thibaud, Furtwangler, Karajan, Kubelik, Artur Schnabel, Szigeti,Primrose.

Anecdotes:

* Suffered attack of polio as a boy, which somewhat hindered his mobility.* pupil of Bazelaire and André Hekking (Parius Conservatoire).*taught at Paris Conservatoire 1941-49.* Teacher and ‘affair’ with British cellist Amaryllis Fleming.* became cellist of Cortot and Thibaud, taking place of Casals.


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Frank Miller often was referred to as the ‘greatest living orchestral cellist’ 1912 – 1986USAPhiladelphia Orchestra. Principal cello Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. Principal

cello NBC Symphony Orchestra, Principal cello Chicago Symphony Orchestra.Chicago Symphony String Quartet . Member Casals Festival Orchestra (Puerto Rico).Conductor Evanston symphony Orchestra. Co-founder Savoyaires (with writer LiliasCircle).Friendships: Toscanini, Reiner, Ormandy, Solti.

Boris Blinder1898 – 1987

Russia/Ukraine (later USA)Principal cello San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. San Francisco String Quartet.Principal cello post in San Francisco lasted more than 20 years.

Jacqueline Du Pré1945 – 1987Great BritainSoloist.

Friendships: Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, Pinchas Zukerman.

Anecdotes:* Married the pianist Daniel Baremboim.* gave televised masterclasses.* Multiple schlerosis ended her playing, then teaching career.


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Peter Muscant1900 – c. 1988BritainBBC Symphony Orchestra (member, later Principal cello). Member London

Symphony Orchestra. Anecdotes:* pupil of Walenn.

Rudolf Matz1901 – 1988CroatiaMember Zagrebacki Trio and the string quartet SKLAD. Conductor of ZagrebChamber Orchestra, the Music Society of Intellectuals, the Croatian Singing Societies' Association, and the Zagreb Physicians' Choir. Professor of Cello at the Academy ofMusic in Zagreb. Chicago Chamber Trio. Anecdotes:* A pioneer in establishing the field of music therapy as a profession in Croatia* Teacher of cello master classes and served as a jury member at International Cellocompetitions.

Zofia Adamska1903 – 1988PolandPolish String Quartet. Professor Krakow Conservatoire.Premieres:

Bacewicz – String Quartet No. 3 (1947).Bacewicz – Piano Quintet No. 1 (1952).

Music/Publications: own arrangements for cellists (published).

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Howard Mitchell1911 – 1988USAPrincipal cello National Symphony Orchestra, Washington. Principal conductorNational Symphony Orchestra ( was principal conductor of the orchestra from 1949 – 1969,

leading them on their first foreign tour). .

Andre Navarra1911 – 1988France

Kretly String Quartet (succeeding Fournier). B.B.N. Trio (with Benvenutti andBenedetti). Principal cello of the Grand Opera Orchestra (Paris). (Military service).Professor Paris Conservatoire, North West German Music Academy (Hochschule fürMusik, Detmold), also taught in Siena (Accademia Musicale Chigiana), London, Vienna, and autumn courses in St. Jean-de-Luz (France).Premieres:

Jolivet – Cello concerto (1962),Tomasi – Cello Concerto (1970).Pascal – Cello concertó (1960). Jolivet – Cello concertó No. 1 (1962).

Tisné – Cello Concerto (1969).Lajtha – Cello Sonata (1961).Schmitt – Intoit, recitative et conge (1951).- Most of these works were probably also dedicated to him.

Friendships: Jacques Ibert, Florent Schmitt,Arthur Honegger, Pau Casals.

Anecdotes:* As a youngster was a promising boxer !* pupil of J.L. Loeb (Paris conservatoire – first cello prize 1927).* taught at Paris Conservatoire 1949-79.


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Florence Hooton1912 – 1988BritainProfessor Royal Academy of Music (London). Grinke Trio (with Grinke and Manley).Loveridge-Martin-Hooton Trio. Duo with pianist Kendall Taylor.Dedications: Gordon Jacob – Cello octet. Gordon Jacob – Divertimento for Solo Cello. Jacob –

Elegy (1958).Premieres:

Gordon Jacob – Cello Concerto.Kenneth Leighton – Cello Concerto. Alan Bush - Concert Suite. All three concertos had been written for her. Arnold Bax – Legend Sonata.Bridge - Oration – Concerto Elegiaco.Ireland – Trio no.3.Leighton – Partita (cello and piano). Jacob – Elegy.

Roberto Gerhard – Cello Sonata (1956) Anecdotes:* Pupil of Warwick Evans, Douglas Cameron and Emanuel Feuermann. Article in JOHNSTONE-MUSIC Ref. No. VLC 15

(Charles) Anthony Pini1900 – 1989 Argentina (later Britain)Member Carla Rosa Opera Company. Member Scottish Orchestra. Queen’s Hall LightOrchestra, London. Kinsey Piano Quartet. Principal cello London Philharmonic

Orchestra. Brosa String Quartet. Principal cello Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.Philharmonia Quartet. Principal cello Philharmonia Orchestra. Principal cello RoyalPhilharmonic Orchestra. Trio (with Pougnet and Morrison). String trio (with Pugnetand Riddle). London String Quartet. Principal cello Royal Opera Orchestra, London.Professor Guidhall School of Music (London), and Royal College of Music (London).Premieres:

Rawsthorne – Cello sonata (also the dedicatee). Virgil Thomson – Cello concerto.

Anecdotes:* son of French father and Scottish mother.

* virtually a self-taught cellist. Article in JOHNSTONE-MUSIC Ref. No. VLC 15


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Gaston Marchésini1904 – 1989FrancePrincipal cello Paris Opera Orchestra.Premieres:

Roussel – Duo for bassoon and cello (with Oubradous).

Anecdotes:* pupil of André Hekking (Paris Conservatoire – first cello prize in 1924).

Antonio Janigro1918 – 1989Italy (later Jugoslavia)Recitals with Dinu Lipatti and Paul Badura-Skoda. Professor Zagreb Conservatoire.

Founder Zagreb Cello Club, Conductor (formed Radio Zagreb Symphony Orchestra),founder ‘I Solisti di Zagreb’. Friendships: Casals, Alexanian, Cortot, Thibaud, Paul Dukas, Nadia Boulanger, Stravinsky,Rudolf Matz

Saša (or Sasha, or Alexandr) Večtomov1930 – 1989CzechCzech Trio. Professor Prague Conservatoire.

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Marion Cumbo1899 – 1990U.S.A. Amsterdam Theatre Orchestra (1919). Cellist Negro String Quartet (1920’s). Cellist in

Broadway Productions. Soloist with Philadelphia Concert Orchestra (black

symphonic group). Emsemble ‘Symphony of the New World’ (1964-78). MemberCosmopolitan Symphony Orchestra, and Senior Musicians’ Orchestra.

Anecdotes:* pupil of Willem Willeke at Institute of Musical Art (later Juillard School). Also with Leonard Jeler and Bruno Steindl (in Chicago).* famed for his bold role in the ‘New Negro’ movement, striving for equal rights and access for

black musicians in the classical symphonic field.

Massimo Anfitheatrof (or Amfitheatrof)1907 – 1990Italy (son of Russian immigrants, born in Paris)Principal cello Turin RAI Orchestra. Principal cello Rome RAI orchestra. ProfessorNaples Conservatoire. Duo with pianist Santoliquido. Trio di Roma (+ quartet, withPellicia and Bianchi). Anecdotes:* pupil of A. Luis in St. Petersburg, and Crepax in Milan.

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Samuel H. Mayes1917- 1990USAPhiladelphia Orchestra (tutti, later principal cello), Principal cello Boston SymphonyOrchestra. Professor Boston University. Chamber music with Joseph Silverstein,

Joseph de Pasquale, the Boston Chamber Players and the Zimbler Sinfonietta.Professor New England Conservatory, Hartt College, Interlochen, the PhiladelphiaMusic Academy and Temple University, Eastman School of Music. Los AngelesPhilharmonic Orchestra. Professor Michigan University. Principal cello AspenFestival Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.Premieres:

North-American premiere of Kabelevsky (1st ) Concerto (composer conducting). Anecdotes: note that the 2nd photo above taken with composer Kabelevsky

Maurice Gendron1920 – 1990FranceProfessor Paris Conservatoire, Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Menuhin School(England), and in Saarbrücken. Duo (vlc-pno) with Jean Françaix, Duo (vlc-pno) withDinu Lipatti. Trio with Yehudi and Hepzibah Menuhin.Premieres :

Jean Françaix - Variations de Concert,Prokofiev – (1st) Cello Concerto (first West-European performance).

Friendships:

Jean Cocteau, Jean Neveu, Ginette Neveu, Picasso, Jean Françaix, Francis Poulenc,Pau Casals. (His idol was Emanuel Feuermann) Anecdotes :* taught at Paris Conservatoire 1970-90.


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Paul Tortelier1914 – 1990France As teenager playing in cafes and restaurants. Sub-principal cello Paris RadioOrchestra. Principal cello Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra.

No. 3 cello Boston Symphony Orchestra, Principal cello Prades Festival Orchestra.Professor Paris Conservatoire, Professor Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. ProfessorConservatoire National de Region, Nice (France). Trio with Hubeau and Merckel.Honorary Professor of Music at the Central Conservatoire in Beijing (China). Workedin later years as a conductor.Own Music/Publications:

Original own pieces, and a Cello Method (How I play, how I teach). Works inclide a D Minor solo cello Suite, a double concerto for two cellos, another for violin and cello,and sonata works.

Friendships:

Pau Casals Anecdotes:* pupil of Bluhm, Feuillard (Paris Conservatoire – aged 12 !). Gérard Hekking.* whilst in Monte Carlo played as soloist in Strauss – Don Quixote with composer conducting.* taught at Paris Conservatoire 1956-69.* lived on an Israeli kibbutz in the mid-1950s.* always very popular in Britain , and especially so after his televised masterclasses.* his students included Arto Noras, Raphael Sommer and Jacqueline du Pré.* famous for the ‘invention’ of a bent end -pin – the ‘Tortelier’ spike. He also patented a newdesign of bridge.

Thelma Reiss1906 – 1991Great BritainCellist Café Trio in Plymouth. Varied life as professional cellist - classical concerts, but also played in theatres,night clubs, and even seaside pier variety acts. Chamber music with Myra Hess, AlbertSammons, and Harriet Cohen.Premieres:

Bax – Sonatina (in D Minor) with Harriet Cohen (perf. 1934) Anecdotes:*studied Royal College of Music, with Ivor James* a very warm concert personality, endearing her to audiences


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Edward (Russell) Bisha1927 – 1991U.S.A., later Canada

Member American Chamber Orchestra. Member of the ‘Harp Trio’ (New York).

Principal cello Halifax Symphony Orchestra. Member Halifax Trio (later renamedBrandon University Trio). Professor Brandon University, and at the University ofSaskatchewan. Cellist Amati String Quartet, and Canadian Arts Trio. Member National Arts Centre Orchestra, Canadian Opera Company, and the CJRT Orchestra. Anecdotes:* studied with Felix Salmond, Bernard Greenhouse and Janos Starker.* won the Piatigorsky award in 1949


Yvette Lamontagne1898 – 1992CanadaMember Trio de Montreal (from 1922). Member Montreal String Quartet. ProfessorMcGill Conservatory (1922-63), at the CMM, and at the École Vincent d’Indy. Anecdotes:* studied with Gustave Labelle, Francis Touche, Marcel Hubert, and in Paris with André Hekkingand Pablo Casals (École normal de musique).* among her pupils are Pierre Morin (principal cello Quebec Symphony Orchestra) and LyseVézina (member Montreal Symphony Orchestra).


Alan Dalziel1931 – 1993BritainPrincipal or co-principal cello: Sadlers Wells Opera Orchestra, London PhilharmonicOrchestra, Scottish Natiomal Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, NationalPhilharmonic Orchestra. Anecdotes:* pupil of Alison Dalrymple (Royal Academy of Music, London), Arthur Tröster (Hamburg) andWilliam Pleeth.


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Joan Dickson1921 – 1994ScotlandEdinburgh String Quartet. Scottish Trio. Professor Royal Scottish Academy of Music.Duo with Joyce Rathbone. Professor Royal College of Music, London. ProfessorDartington summer courses. Teacher Purcell School of Music (England).

Premieres:Ian Hamilton – Cello Sonata No.1 (also dedicatee).David Dorward – Cello Concerto (also dedication).David Barlow – Variations for cello and strings. Martin Dalby – Trio.Kenneth Leighton – Solo Cello Sonata.

Anecdotes:* Pupil of Ivor James, Pierre Fournier and Endico Mainardi. Became the assistant of Mainardi.* Close contact with the educator Paul Rolland.

Margaret Avery Rowell The ‘Music Educator’ 1900 – 1995USAProfessor San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Professor University of California atBerkely, Stanford University, Mills College and San Francisco State University. Co-organizer California Cello Club. Workshops for String teachers.Friendships: Colin Hampton, Casals, Piatigorsky, Rostropovich, Starker, Greenhouse, IreneSharp.

Kazimierz Wiłkomirski 1900-1995PolandCellist and conductor. Director of Baltic State Opera (Gdansk Opera). Professor Music Academy of Sopot.Premieres:

Bacewicz – Mazovian Dance (written 1951, fp 1952 Warsaw) Anecdotes:* Excellent all-round musician – cellist, composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor.


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Pauline Dunn1922 – 1995Great Britain

Member Lydian Ensemble, Turner String Quartet, Leodian Quartet, Rogeri Trio, andduos with pianists Ernest Lush and Keith Swallow. Professor at the HuddersfieldSchool of Music. Anecdotes:* a pupil of Maurice Eisenberg, also playing in master classes of Casals.* At first a pianist, took up the cello in her teens.** Also obtained French/German degree at Birmingham University.

Jörg Baumann1940 – 1995

GermanyPrincipal cello Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1976-95). Philharmonic Duo (JörgBaumann and Klaus Stoll). Anecdotes:* was a firm favourite of Herbert von Karajan.* a late recording of the 6 suites of Bach - very natural (almost rustic), not following the usuallymore romantic interpretations from the 1980's.


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August Wenzinger1905 – 1996SwitzerlandPrincipal cello Bremen Orchestra. Principal cello Basel Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft(1936-1970). Kabeler Kammermusik (Kabel Chamber Music). KammermusikkreisScheck-Wenziger (Scheck-Wenzinger Chamber Music Circle). Professor Schola

Cantorum Basiliensis (Basle). Schola Cantorum Basiliensis viola da gamba trio.Professor at Harvard and Brandeis Univesities (USA). Honorary doctorate from theUniversity of Basel. Conductor Capella Coloniensis (baroque orchestra) of WestGerman Radio in Cologne. Premieres:

Hindemith – Cello Concerto (European premiere) Music/Publications:

a method book for viola da gamba in 2 volumes. Editions for cello of the Bach Suites. Anecdotes:* pupil Basle Conservatoire. Later studied with Paul Grümmer (Cologne Conservatoire), and

Emanuel Feuermann (Berlin).* by 1925 had mastered the Viola da gamba, and was accepted as a pioneer of historicallyinformed performances, helped by both gamba playing, and as conductor of Baroque orchestraland opera music.

Ludwig Hoelscher1908 – 1996GermanyElly Ney Trio (with Elley Ney and Max Strub). Trio with Gieseking and Taschner.Strub Quartet (the 2nd quartet). Professor Stuttgart Hochschule.Premieres:

Karl Höller – Cello concerto No. 1 (Furtwangler/Berlin Phil.).Hindemith – Cello Concerto (first German performance).Fortner – Cello Sonata.

Dedications:Pfitzner – Cello Concerto No.3, Op.52 (1943).Duo (with pno or orch. accompaniment), Op. 43 (joint dedication with Strub) – also

gave premiere, and also the first recording of work.Sutermeister – Cello Concerto.Henze – Ode to the West Wind. Also dedicated works by the composers: David, Genzmer, Krenek, Rapf, Reuter,

Trapp and Zilcher.

Anecdotes:* pupil of W. Lamping, Klengel and Becker.* teacher of Eberhard Finke (Principal cello Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) and Peter Buck(Melos Quartet).


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Colin Hampton1911 – 1996Great Britain (later U.S.A.)Griller string Quartet, Co-founder California Cello Club.

Special friendships: Ernest Bloch, Zara Nelsova.Dozens of own arrangements for cello ensembles Article in JOHNSTONE-MUSIC Ref. No. VLC 15

George Barati1913 – 1996

Hungary (later USA)Member Budapest Concert Orchestra. Pro Ideale Quartet. Principal cello BudapestSymphony and the Budapest Municipal Opera Orchestra. Member San FranciscoSymphony. California String Quartet. Founding conductor of the Barati ChamberOrchestra of San Francisco. Music director of the Honolulu Symphony and Opera. Executive director of the Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts and conductor of the VillaMontalvo Chamber Orchestra in Saratoga, California. Music director of the SantaCruz County Symphony. A distinguished cellist, conductor, and composer. Wrote a Fantasie for Four Cellos.


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Daniel Saidenberg1906 – 1997USA (left birth place Canada as an infant)Member Philadelphia Orchestra. Principal cello Chicago Symphony Orchestra.Professor Chicago Music College. Founder Daidenberg Little Symphony Orchestra.Director Connecticut Symphony Orchestra.

Anecdotes:* Pupil of André Hekking (at Paris Conservatoire).* He was offered assistant conductor position at New York Philharmonic Orchestra butdeclined "at the last minute because the contract required him to play his cello as well asconduct" –so instead Bernstein was contracted for his post !* He later opened an art gallery in New York.

Raya Garbousova1909 - 1997Georgia (later Germany, France)Professor Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Professor at Hartt College of Musicin Connecticut. Masterclasses in Aspen, the Cleveland Institute of Music, andIndiana University, as well as in China. She was a generous supporter of the ChicagoCello Society, also giving several Master Classes.Premieres:

Martinu – 3rd Cello Sonata,Prokofiev – Cello Sonata,

Barber – Cello Concerto, (also dedicated to her).

She also introduced works of Creston, Hindemith, and Lopatnikoff, and edited manynew works for publication.

Dedications:Rieto – Cello Concerto (1956),Rathaus – Rapsodia Notturna (1950).

Friendships:Emanuel Feuermann, Milstein, Horowitz, Piatigorsky, Rose, Prokofiev,

Rachmaninoff, Huberman, Szigeti, Morini, Stern, Oistrakh, Fournier, du Pré, Starker,Rostropovich, Nelsova, Greenhouse.


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Antonia Butler1909 – 1997Cellist Kamaran Piano Trio. Duo performances with violinist Arthur Catterall. Duo

with husband, the pianist Norman Greenwood. Professor at the Royal College of Music,the Birmingham School of Music, and the Menuhin School.Friendships:

Casals. Feuermann.The composer Arthur Honegger was a personal friend and Butler played his cellosonata in Paris with Honegger's wife as her partner on the piano.

Anecdotes:* pupil of Julius Klengel at Leopzig Conservatoire, and of Diran Alexanian at Ecole Normale inParis.

Elizabeth Cowling1910 – 1997USAProfessor at Grennsboro – University of South Carolina. Anecdotes:

* pupil of Bazelaire, Mischa Schneider, Pablo Casals.* long collaborative work with cellist Luigi Silva. Performance research was a significant partto her career. A dedicated teacher.* also a Viola da gamba player, teacher and scholar.


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Fritz Magg1914 – 1997 Austria (later USA)Principal cello of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Principal cello Metroplitan Opera

Orchestra (New York). Professor Indiana University. Anecdotes:* pupil of Paul Grummer (in Berlin), Diran Alexanian (at Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris).* Worked at Indiana University where Janos Starker also taught.


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( Shafran with Kabelevsky)

Daniel Shafran1923 – 1997Russia (USSR)Recitals with Richter, Enescu, Zecchi Nina Musinyan, Anton Ginsburg and FelixGottliebPremieres:

Kabelevsky – Concertos 1 and 2 (2nd concerto dedicated to him). Anecdotes:

* Recorded Shostakovich – Cello Sonata with composer at piano.* Performed Khachaturian – Cello Concerto with composer conducting.


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Christopher van Kampen1945 – 1997BritainPrincipal cello Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (London). Principal Cello LondonSinfonietta. Cellist of the Nash Ensemble (London). Collaborator with FitzwilliamQuartet.Premieres:

Hans Abrahamsen's Lied in Fall.H.K. Gruber - Cello Concerto. Mark-Anthony Turnage - Kai

Friendships: John Taverner. Anecdotes:* Pupil of Douglas Cameron.

* at one point Cello tutor to National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

Marcus Adeney1900 – 1998Great Britain, later CanadaMember Detroit Symphony Orchestra(1922). Member Toronto symphony Orchestra

(1928-1949). Founder and conductor of Beaches Concert Orchestra (Toronto). CellistSolway String Quartet (1948-58). Member CBC Symphony Orchestra (1952-63). CellistMarcus Adeney String Quartet (1950s). Professor Hambourg Conservatory (1928-51).Professor University of Toronto (1953-63). Founder/director of the Inverness MusicCamp (Muskoka). Professor at the TCM (RCMT) 1944-85. Music critic, programme note writer, contributor to the Strad magazine. Music/Publications:

Book ‘Tomorrow’s Cellist: exploring the basis of artistry’ (1984). Has also composed

songs and cello pieces. Anecdotes:

* studied with J. Bartmann, Leo Smith, Boris Hambourg, Philip Abbas, Arnold Trowell (London)and Percy Such (New York).* Has produced many later cellist members of Toronto Symphony Orchestra.* Also was a music critic, programme note writer, contributor to ‘The Strad’ magazine, and wrote

a novel which won a national prize in 1931.* His life is featured in a 1994 video “The man who couldn’t lose” by Cayle Chernin.



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Étienne Pasquier1905 – 1998FrancePrincipal cello Paris Opera Orchestra (during 40 years). String Trio Pasquier (formedby 3 brothers!).

Dedications:some 75 works were dedicated to the string trio mentioned above (including by

Françaix, Jolivet, Martinu, Milhaud, Roussel and Schmitt.Pierné even wrote a piece for trio based on the names of the 3 brothers.

Anecdotes:* pupil of J.L. Loeb (Paris Conservatoire; first cello prize at 16 !).* Pasquier was captured by Germans in the war (as member of French armed forces) and sentto Siberia. There Messaien wrote ‘Quartet for the end of time’, premiered by 4 prisoners

including Pasquier and Messaien.

William Pleeth 1916 – 1999Great BritainProfessor Guildhall School (London), Allegri String Quartet, close association with Amadeus String Quartet, duo with wife Margaret Good.Premieres and dedications:

Rubbra – Soliloquy,Rubbra – Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op.60 (1946) – dedicated jointly with his wife

Margaret Good.Rubbra – Improvisation for solo cello, Op.124.Gordon Jacob – Cello Sonata in D minor (1957, perf. with his wife)

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Amaryllis Fleming1925 – 1999BritainProfessor Royal College of Music (London). Fleming String Trio (with Kenneth Essexand Granville Jones, later Emanuel Hurwitz).Premieres:

Seiber – Tre Pezzi, Arnold Cooke – Cello Sonata,Peter Racine Fricker – Cello Sonata.

Anecdotes:* A major advocate of the Walton Cello Concerto.* Affair with French cellist Pierre Fournier.* Converted to Buddhism (had the honor of two meetings with the Dalai Lama).


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Incomplete (here alphabetical names):

Amadeo Baldovino1916 - ????Egypt (of Italian family) While still a teenager, he played with such major orchestras as the AmsterdamConcertgebouw, the Czech Philharmonic, and the Berlin Philharmonic.

Trio Italiano d'Archi . Trio de Trieste. Professor Rome Conservatory and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome Anecdotes:* teacher of Raphael Wallfisch

Raymond Clark???? - ????Great BritainBBC Symphony Orchestra (sub-principal cello), Principal cello Royal PhilharmonicOrchestra, Principal cello Philharmonia Orchestra (London). (Ocasional) PrincipalCello Royal Opera House Orchestra, London. Anecdotes:* almost self-taught – picked up experience playing in pit orchestras in his native Yorkshire!* his few soloist performances were very noted (once substituting for Fournier in ‘Don Quixote’many considered his interpretation equal to that of Fournier himself).


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Honegger, with composer Frank Martin (1960)

Henri Honegger1904 - ???? (at least 1973)Switzerland

Individual Soloist Career.Dedications:

Martinu – Sonata da Camara, for cello and small orchestra (1940) – and Honegger also gave the premiere.

Friendships: composer Frank Martin. Anecdotes:* pupil of Klengel.* was probably the first cellist from the west to play the Bach Suites in China: Beijing andShanghai in 1973.*Honegger’s performances and recordings (three different sets) of the 6 Suites of J.S. Bach won

him almost universal praise.

Helen Just???? - ????Great Britain

Professor Royal College of Music, London. Member of the Menges Sextet (Menges,

Isolde (violin) / Carrelle, Beatrice (violin) / Yewe Dyer, John (viola) / De Reyghere, Alfred

(viola) / James, Ivor (cello) / Just, Helen (cello)). Anecdotes:* wife of cellist Ivor James* The Royal College has an annual cello concerto prize in her name.


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Reginald Kilby1903 - ???? (c.1975-1980)Great BritainLighter music soloist (many BBc special programmes such as ‘Grand Hotel’). Member Max

Jaffa Trio. Principal cello BBC Radio Orchestra.

Anecdotes:* studied at Royal College of Music, London, with Ludwig Lebell* made professional debut at just 17, playing Elgar’s Cello Concerto.

Halina Kowalska1913 - ????PolandPrincipal cello Warsaw Polish Radio Orchestra.

Anecdotes:* later worked in Israel (1958) and Denmark (1971).INFORMATION BY DOROTA PUKOWNIK

Tadeusz Kowalski1904 - ????PolandPrincipal cello Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.

Anecdotes:* pupil of Maurice EisenbergINFORMATION BY DOROTA PUKOWNIK

Marian Miedlar1910 - ????PolandMember Katowice Radio Orchestra.

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Józef Mikulski1912 - ????PolandSoloist and teacher

Anecdotes:* pupil of D. Alexanian and Pablo Casals* was the teacher of Andrzej Orkisz andAleksander Bronislaw Ciechanski


Adam Lucjan Schmar1903 - ????

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CURIOSITIES! / LOS CURIOSOS!

Charlie Chaplin

1889 – 1977Britain (later USA)It is not generally known that apart from his work as a great actor and film director, CharlieChaplin was a proficient cellist. More than that, he was also the composer of several cello works. The strange thing is that Chaplin, left-handed, took to the cello playing with the handsthe ‘wrong way around’ – and never changed later in life !!

Aram Il’yich Khachaturian 1903 – 1978 ArmeniaImportant 20th century composer, who started as a promising cello student before dedicatinghimself to composition. He studied cello under Mikhail Gnesin, and then composition with Myaskovsky. He became Professor at the Gnesin State Musical and Pedagogical Institute(Moscow) and at the Moscow Conservatory. Cello works include 2 concertos, and a Solo Cellosonata.


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Rudolf Escher1912-1980HollandBorn in Amsterdam. He studied piano, cello and harmony at the Rotterdam ToonkunstConservatorium where he later had composition training with Willem Pijper. As a composer he wrote mostly for orchestra, chamber groups and solo piano.

Willem Van Otterloo1907-1982HollandBorn in Winterswijk, Gelderland Province. Although slated for a medical career, he enrolled atthe Amsterdam Conservatory where he studied the cello with Max Orobio de Castro andcomposition with Sem Dresden. He started his professional music career as a cellist with theUtrecht City Orchestra and gradually moved up to the position of principal conductor. His verybusy conducting career precluded that much time devoted to composing but he did produce aSymphony No. 1 (1934-5), 3 Suites for Orchestra, Suite for String Orchestra and Introduction and Allegro.

Morey Amsterdam1914 – 1996U.S.A.

A famous comedian, known as “The Human Joke Machine”. Between the intense joke-filledacting sessions, he played novelty tunes with his cello in night-clubs!The height of his popularity were the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s.


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FREE downloads of many original and interesting compositions – these scores,not commercially published, include pieces for bowed string instruments (violin, viola,cello and double bass), woodwind (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon), brass, piano andaccordion. Chamber music is well represented, and not just by duos, trios or quartets,

but also for larger groupings right up to pieces for string orchestra (suitable in scopeboth for youth orchestras and professionals).

FREE downloads of transcriptions for Cellists (classical and popular music) withsolos, and pieces for ensembles of varying sizes from duos up to cello orchestras. Asubstantial section …

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FREE downloads of ARTICLES – in two main sections; one of general musicalthemes, and the other relating specifically to matters of the Violoncello –

written by a wide range of professional musicians. Also a Directory/Library withinformation about Famous Historical Cellists (some 600 cellists are included),and exhaustive chronological lists of general cello recital repertoire.

Biographies, performances, audio extracts (some 50 or so), images, links,recordings, chamber music formations, current projects, composition list, salesof CDs and published sheet music etc. –

Interactive sections: Diary, News, Contact, Suggestions, a quick survey,comments etc. Also a section of useful tools for musicians. Leave your opinions,and receive free publicity of any performance of a work or arrangement ofDavid Johnstone, with links to your web page (or that of the organizers), ifdesired.

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johnstone-music es una interesante y muy activa página Web del violoncellista,compositor y arreglista DAVID JOHNSTONE – un sitio Web altamente valorada entrelos músicos hispano-parlantes de muchos países.

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Hay muchas partituras ofrecidas para DESCARGA GRATUITA - estas partituras,obras no publicadas por una editorial, incluyen piezas para los instrumentos de cuerdas(violín, viola, violoncello y contrabajo), vientos (flauta, oboe, clarinete, fagot), metales,piano y acordeón. La música de cámara está bien presente, y no solo representada pordúos, tríos y cuartetos, sino también por grupos más grandes hasta obras para orquestade cuerdas (adecuadas ambas para orquestas de jóvenes y profesionales).

Adicionalmente hay una gran sección de descargas gratuitas de transcripciones para violoncellistas (música clásica y popular), con solos, y piezas para los grupos de violoncellos desde dúos hasta orquestas de violoncellos.

Al mismo tiempo, un buen número de las obras más importantes de Johnstone están publicadas por ‘Creighton’s Collection’ y para ver estás un PDF especial está disponible enla página principal, también de LIBRE DESCARGA.

Dos secciones inusuales de artículos (también con descargas gratuitas) sobretemas musicales generales, y del mundo del violoncello, escritos por un amplioabanico de músicos profesionales, los cuales son interesantes colaboradores.También un Directorio/Biblioteca con información sobre VioloncellistasHistóricos Famosos (unos 600 cellistas presentes), y listas cronológicasdetalladas del repertorio general del violoncello para recitales.

Los contenidos ‘normales’ – biografías, actuaciones, extractos de audio (unos 50), imágenes, enlaces, grabaciones, formaciones de música de cámara, proyectos actuales, lista de composiciones, ventas de CDs etc. -

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Documents

J-m_CELLO DIRECTORY - Vol VII - 1976 - 1999 - Historical Cellists