DIRECTORY / LIBRARY

OF FAMOUS HISTORICAL
CELLISTS
Volume VII
(1976 1999)

DIRECTORIO / BIBLIOTECA DE
VIOLONCELLISTAS HISTORICOS
FAMOSOS
Volumen VII
(1976 1999)

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DIRECTORY / LIBRARY
OF FAMOUS HISTORICAL CELLISTS
PRESENTATION:
Throughout history a number of interesting books have been published on the Cello its
origins, the performers, the makers/luthiers, and the repertoire. However, when reference is
made 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 is
exactly 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, its always a good idea to be able to do
an easy search for a particular cellist that interests you! All individual inclusions of this library
of cellists are in chronological order, following the order of the year of death. Why this
method, and not by the more commonly used birth-year as a guide? Well, some cellists were
child prodigies and already famous in their teens, whilst others took several decades before
establishing themselves. Some enjoyed a very long life, such as Pau Casals, and were very active
after reaching 65 years old others unfortunately did not even reach 65 years old (or a few even
to barely half this number).
That is to say that sometimes cellists of a same birth year often did not coincide musically at
all. Therefore this present system is probably a much more accurate guide of their real working
periods and their musical influences.
The chances are that you will probably not know exactly where to find the cellist you are
searching for, though you probably know his/her musical period.
Therefore, each volume gives all names with life-spans of a particular period at the beginning
in alphabetical order, and from this you will be easily able to ascertain the relevant years for a
more 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:
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DIRECTORIO / BIBLIOTECA DE VIOLONCELLISTAS
HISTORICOS FAMOSOS
PRESENTACIN:
A lo largo de la historia se han publicado un nmero de libros interesantes sobre el violoncello
sus orgenes, los intrpretes, sus lutieres y su repertorio. Sin embargo, cuando se hace
referencia a los violoncellistas, estn casi siempre clasificados y organizados segn las escuelas
nacionales de violoncello. Siempre ha existido una necesidad de ver una lista real de los
cellistas contemporneos en cada poca de forma cronolgica (con sus respectivas posiciones o
actividades), y esto es exactamente lo que johnstone-music ofrece con este trabajo nico.
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, es
una buena idea poder hacer una bsqueda fcil para un violoncellista en particular que te
interesa. Todas las inclusiones individuales de esta biblioteca cellstica estn en orden
cronolgico,siguiendo el ao de fallecimiento del cellista. Y por qu este mtodo, y no el
sistema ms comn del ao de nacimiento? Pues, algunos violoncellistas fueron prodigios y ya
celebres casi de adolescentes, mientras que otros necesitaban varias dcadas antes de
establecer sus nombres. Algunos disfrutaron de una vida muy larga, como Pau Casals, y fueron
muy activos despus de cumplir 65 aos otros no llegaban desgraciadamente ni a los 65 aos
de edad (algunos incluso apenas a la mitad de este nmero).
Con todo esto queremos decir que algunas veces violoncellistas nacidos en el mismo ao no
coincidieron musicalmente para nada. Por tanto, este sistema utilizado es probablemente una
gua mucho ms fiel de sus periodos reales de trabajo y de sus influencias musicales.
Probablemente no vas a saber exactamente dnde encontrar el violoncellista que buscas,
aunque tal vez sabrs de su poca musical.
As que el ndice en cada volumen da todos los nombres (y fechas) al principio en orden
alfabtico, y de esto puedes averiguar fcilmente los aos relevantes e ir a su entrada ms
detallada. Si el/la violoncellista que ests buscando no est donde lo imaginas, prueba el
periodo/volumen anterior o posterior Disfrtalo!
El orden de informacin en los textos es el siguiente: debera ser fcil de seguir!

Nombre:
Fechas:
Pas:
Posiciones:
Estrenos efectuados - Dedicatorias recibidas:
Msica/Publicaciones:
Amistades:
Ancdotas:
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VOLUME VII
Cellists with year of death in period 1976 - 1999

VOLUMEN VII
Violoncellistas con ao de fallecimiento 1976 - 1999

CELLISTS:
ADAMSKA, Zofia (1903 1988)
ADENEY, Marcus (1900 1998)
ANFITHEATROF, Massimo (1907 1990)
BARATI, George (1913 1996)
BAUMANN, Jrg (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, Nern (1903 1977)
FLEMING, Amaryllis (1925 1999)
FOURNIER, Pierre (1906 1986)
FRZIN, 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)
MARCHSINI, 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, tienne (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, Saa (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, Jzef (1912 - ????)
SCHMAR, Adam Lucjan (1903 - ????)

Curiosities:
AMSTERDAM, Morey (1914 1996) - comedian
CHAPLIN, Charlie (1889 1977) - actor and film director
ESCHER, Rudolf (1912-1980) - composer
KHACHATURIAN, Aram Ilyich (1903 1978) - composer
(Van) OTTERLOO, Willem (1907-1982) - conductor (composer)

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Cellists:

Enrico Mainardi
1897 1976
Italy
Professor Academy of St. Cecilia (Rome), Professor Berlin Hochschule. Trio (with
Kulenkamp and Fischer). Recital duo with Zecchi. Director of short courses in
Edinburgh, Lucerne and Mozarteum (Salzburg).
Premieres:
Wagenseil - cello concertos (first modern performance following their discovery in
1953).
Dedications:
Pizzetti - Cello Concerto (19334).
Malipiero - Cello Concerto (1937) and Triple Concerto (1938).
Music/Publications:
Own original works His compositions include four cello concertos, sonatas for
cello (unaccompanied and with piano), more than 20 chamber works, songs and
orchestral 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 Schuster
1903 1976
Russian descent (born Constantinople)
Principal cello Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Principal cello New York Philharmonic
Orchestra.

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Gregor Piatigorsky
1903-1976
Russia (Ukraine), (later U.S.A.)
Co-principal cello Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (under Furtwangler). Head of cello
department 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,
Mikls Rzsa 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 Sturzenegger
1905 1976
Switzerland
Member 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 (in
tonal styles). Published the first original version of Boccherini Bb major
concerto.
Anecdotes:
* Studied Zurich Conservatoire. Then a pupil of Casals and Alexanian (Paris) and Nadie
Boulanger. Later studied with Feuermann, and Toch (composition).
* teacher of Walter Grimmer.

Thomas Igloi
1947 1976
Hungary (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).

Nern Ferrazzano
1903 1977
Argentina
Member of tango/light music orchestras-groups: Orchestra of Anselmo Aieta.
Orchestra of Pedro Maffia. Orchestra of Osvaldo Fresedo (7 years). Orchestra of
Pedro Laurenz. Orchestra of Horacio Salgn. Permanent Orchestra of Radio
Splendid.
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 Jos Luis
Bragato.
INFORMATION BY ARGENCELLO

Theodore du Moulin
1888 1978
U.S.A. (son of French music teacher)
Member of Chicago Symphony Orchestra 11 seasons (1912-23) and Principal cello
during one season (1918-19). Member Zukowski Trio of Chicago. Cellist od Great
Lakes string Quartet, later re-named Chicago String Quartet. Chicago Radio
Orchestra (1940s).
Anecdotes:
* His wife was also a member of the chicago Orchestra.

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Cedric Sharpe
1891 1978
Great Britain
Principal cello Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, Philharmonic Quartet
Music: Own original works
Friendships: his playing was admired by Elgar, Barbarolli, Beecham, Ysae, Sammons etc.
Article in JOHNSTONE-MUSIC Ref. No. VLC 15

Adolphe Frzin
1906 1978
Belgium (later USA)
Principal cello Orchestre Nationale (France). Member of Queen Elizabeths
(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 Cleveland
Orchestra. 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 Kennedy
1923 1978
Britain
Principal cello Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London.
Anecdotes:
* son of cellist Lauri Kennedy; and father to violinist Nigel Kennedy.

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Eva Czako Janzer

???? 1978
India (later Hungary, USA)
Grumiaux Trio. Vegh Quartet. Professor University of Hanover. Professor Indiana
University School of Music.
Anecdotes:
* Pupil Budapest Music Academy, Budapest.
* wife of famed violist Georges Janzer.

Ennio Bolognini
1893 1979
Argentina (later USA)
Principal cello Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Founder Las Vegas Philharmonic
Orchestra.
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 that
there 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 Ysselstyn
1904 1979
Holland, later Canada
Cellist Bembeck Quartet. Cellist Parlow Quartet. Member Toronto Symphony
Orchestra, and CBC Symphony Orchestra. Professor at RCMT
Anecdotes:
* emigrated to Canada in 1936 (Toronto)
* Pupils include Donald Whitton and Michael Kilburn.
INFORMATION BY THE CANADIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA

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Josep Trotta
1907 1979
Spain (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 Vetomov
1902 1981
Czech
Member 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 (in
Paris).
* father of Sasha Vetomov

Lev Solomonovich Ginsberg

1907 1981
Bielorussia
Professor 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 for
early history investigation of the cello.

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Michel Penha
1888 1982
Holland (later USA)
Tollefsen Piano Trio. Penha Trio. Principal cello Philadelphia Orchestra. Principal
cello San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. California String Quartet. Abas String
Quartet. Roussel Trio (flute, vla and vlc).
Anecdotes:
* Pupil of Hugo Becker, Isaac Mossel and Joseph Salmon.
* Principal cello in Philadelphia during 5 seasons.

Joachim Stutschewsky
1891 1982
Ukraine
Founder Viennese Trio and Quartet with Rudolf Kolisch. Activities in the area of
Jewish music as a composer, cellist, journalist and organizer. He was the spiritus
rector of the Societ for the Promotion of Jewish Music. Later dedicated almost
exclusively to composing.
Premieres:
Many premieres of works from the new Viennese School (led by Schoenberg).

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M. Cherniavsky
1893 1982
Russia
Soloist
Anecdotes:
* Student of Wierzbilowieszc, Popper and Walenn.

Vasa Cerny
1900 1982
Czech
Principal cello Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Founder-member Janacek String
Quartet.
Anecdotes:
* pupil of Jan Burian (Prague Conservatoire).

Tibor de Machula Tibby

1912 1982
Hungary (later Germany, Holland)
Principal Cello Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (invitation by Furtwngler),
Principal cello Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amersterdam)
Premieres:
Thrichen Cello concerto.
Mackeben Symphonic Ballade

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Alfred Wallenstein
1898 1983
USA
Member San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Member Los angeles Philharmonic
Orchestra. Principal cello Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Principal cello New York
Philharmonic Orchestra. Music Director Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
Professor Juillard School of Music (New York).
Anecdotes:
* Toscanini advised him to become a conductor !

Martin Bochmann
1914 1983
Germany (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 Mazzacurati
1898 1984
Italy
Principal cello Orquestra Radio EIAR-RAI di Torino (Italia). Founder-member of
I Virtuosi di Roma. Professor Conservatoire of Turin. Professor Academia Chigiana
de 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.
INFORMATION BY CARLOS FRUTUOSO

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Joyce Sands
1902 1984
Australia, later Canada
Member Nuysse String Quartet. Cellist Harisay String quartet (Canada). Professor at
the TCM. Member Toronto symphony Orchestra (1931-36). Organizer of the Fireside
Music Club. Member Arcoda Trio. Cellist Carleton String Quartet (Ottawa), Principal
cello Ottawa Philharmonic Orchestra (1957-59).
Premieres:
Morris Kates 3 Dialogues for cello and piano
Dedications;
Morris Kates Elegaic Variations (written in her memory 1984)
Anecdotes:
* raised in England, pupil of Hlne 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.
INFORMATION BY THE CANADIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA

Leonard Rose
1918 1984
U.S.A .
NBC Orchestra, Principal cello Cleveland Orchestra, Principal cello New York
Philharmonic Orchestra. Trio (with Stern and Istomin).
Professor Jeulliard School (New York), Professor Curtis Institute, and Galamians
Meadowmount Summer School. Duos with Glenn Gould.
Friendships: Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, George Szell and Bruno Walter.

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Lauri Kennedy
1898 c.1985
Australia (later Britain)
Principal cello BBC Symphony Orchestra. Principal cello London Philharmonic
Orchestra. Duo with pianist-wife Dorothy McBride. Trio (with Daisy Kennedy and
McBride). 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 1986
France (later Switzerland)
Krettly String Quartet. Professor Ecole Normale (Paris), Trio (with Cortot and
Thibaud). Professor Paris conservatoire. Trio (with Szigeti and Achnabel).
Dedications:
st
Works by Martinu including - 1 Sonatafor cello and piano (also premiere), and Cello
Concerto No.1. (plus giving first performance of new re-scored version).
th
Nin Suite Espagnole (4 movement Andaluza).
Martinon Cello concerto.
Frank Martin Cello concerto.
Poulenc Sonata (?).
Premieres:
Ravel Chansons madcasses.
nd
Faure String Quartet (gave 2 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 Andr 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 1986
USA
Philadelphia 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 Lilias
Circle).
Friendships: Toscanini, Reiner, Ormandy, Solti.

Boris Blinder
1898 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 Pr
1945 1987
Great Britain
Soloist.
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 Muscant
1900 c. 1988
Britain
BBC Symphony Orchestra (member, later Principal cello). Member London
Symphony Orchestra.
Anecdotes:
* pupil of Walenn.

Rudolf Matz
1901 1988
Croatia
Member Zagrebacki Trio and the string quartet SKLAD. Conductor of Zagreb
Chamber Orchestra, the Music Society of Intellectuals, the Croatian Singing Societies'
Association, and the Zagreb Physicians' Choir. Professor of Cello at the Academy of
Music 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 Cello
competitions.

Zofia Adamska
1903 1988
Poland
Polish 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).
INFORMATION BY DOROTA PUKOWNIK

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Howard Mitchell
1911 1988
USA
Principal cello National Symphony Orchestra, Washington. Principal conductor
National Symphony Orchestra (was principal conductor of the orchestra from 1949 1969,
leading them on their first foreign tour). .

Andre Navarra
1911 1988
France
Kretly String Quartet (succeeding Fournier). B.B.N. Trio (with Benvenutti and
Benedetti). Principal cello of the Grand Opera Orchestra (Paris). (Military service).
Professor Paris Conservatoire, North West German Music Academy (Hochschule fr
Musik, 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 concert (1960).
Jolivet Cello concert No. 1 (1962).
Tisn 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 Hooton
1912 1988
Britain
Professor 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 Pini

1900 1989
Argentina (later Britain)
Member Carla Rosa Opera Company. Member Scottish Orchestra. Queens Hall Light
Orchestra, 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 Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra. Trio (with Pougnet and Morrison). String trio (with Pugnet
and 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.
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Gaston Marchsini
1904 1989
France
Principal cello Paris Opera Orchestra.
Premieres:
Roussel Duo for bassoon and cello (with Oubradous).
Anecdotes:
* pupil of Andr Hekking (Paris Conservatoire first cello prize in 1924).

Antonio Janigro
1918 1989
Italy (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

Saa (or Sasha, or Alexandr) Vetomov

1930 1989
Czech
Czech Trio. Professor Prague Conservatoire.
* son of Ivan Vetomov

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Marion Cumbo
1899 1990
U.S.A.
Amsterdam Theatre Orchestra (1919). Cellist Negro String Quartet (1920s). Cellist in
Broadway Productions. Soloist with Philadelphia Concert Orchestra (black
symphonic group). Emsemble Symphony of the New World (1964-78). Member
Cosmopolitan 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 1990
Italy (son of Russian immigrants, born in Paris)
Principal cello Turin RAI Orchestra. Principal cello Rome RAI orchestra. Professor
Naples Conservatoire. Duo with pianist Santoliquido. Trio di Roma (+ quartet, with
Pellicia and Bianchi).
Anecdotes:
* pupil of A. Luis in St. Petersburg, and Crepax in Milan.
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Samuel H. Mayes
1917- 1990
USA
Philadelphia Orchestra (tutti, later principal cello), Principal cello Boston Symphony
Orchestra. 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 Philadelphia
Music Academy and Temple University, Eastman School of Music. Los Angeles
Philharmonic Orchestra. Professor Michigan University. Principal cello Aspen
Festival Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Premieres:
st
North-American premiere of Kabelevsky (1 ) Concerto (composer conducting).
nd
Anecdotes: note that the 2 photo above taken with composer Kabelevsky

Maurice Gendron
1920 1990
France
Professor Paris Conservatoire, Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Menuhin School
(England), and in Saarbrcken. Duo (vlc-pno) with Jean Franaix, Duo (vlc-pno) with
Dinu Lipatti. Trio with Yehudi and Hepzibah Menuhin.
Premieres :
Jean Franaix - Variations de Concert,
Prokofiev (1st) Cello Concerto (first West-European performance).
Friendships:
Jean Cocteau, Jean Neveu, Ginette Neveu, Picasso, Jean Franaix, Francis Poulenc,
Pau Casals. (His idol was Emanuel Feuermann)
Anecdotes :
* taught at Paris Conservatoire 1970-90.

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Paul Tortelier
1914 1990
France
As teenager playing in cafes and restaurants.
Sub-principal cello Paris Radio
Orchestra. 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. Professor
Conservatoire National de Region, Nice (France). Trio with Hubeau and Merckel.
Honorary Professor of Music at the Central Conservatoire in Beijing (China). Worked
in 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 !). Grard 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 Pr.
* famous for the invention of a bent end-pin the Tortelier spike. He also patented a new
design of bridge.

Thelma Reiss
1906 1991
Great Britain
Cellist Caf 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, Albert
Sammons, 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) Bisha

1927 1991
U.S.A., later Canada
Member American Chamber Orchestra. Member of the Harp Trio (New York).
Principal cello Halifax Symphony Orchestra. Member Halifax Trio (later renamed
Brandon University Trio). Professor Brandon University, and at the University of
Saskatchewan. 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
INFORMATION BY THE CANADIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA

Yvette Lamontagne
1898 1992
Canada
Member Trio de Montreal (from 1922). Member Montreal String Quartet. Professor
McGill Conservatory (1922-63), at the CMM, and at the cole Vincent dIndy.
Anecdotes:
* studied with Gustave Labelle, Francis Touche, Marcel Hubert, and in Paris with Andr Hekking
and Pablo Casals (cole normal de musique).
* among her pupils are Pierre Morin (principal cello Quebec Symphony Orchestra) and Lyse
Vzina (member Montreal Symphony Orchestra).
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Alan Dalziel
1931 1993
Britain
Principal or co-principal cello: Sadlers Wells Opera Orchestra, London Philharmonic
Orchestra, Scottish Natiomal Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, National
Philharmonic Orchestra.
Anecdotes:
* pupil of Alison Dalrymple (Royal Academy of Music, London), Arthur Trster (Hamburg) and
William Pleeth.

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Joan Dickson
1921 1994
Scotland
Edinburgh String Quartet. Scottish Trio. Professor Royal Scottish Academy of Music.
Duo with Joyce Rathbone. Professor Royal College of Music, London. Professor
Dartington 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 1995
USA
Professor San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Professor University of California at
Berkely, Stanford University, Mills College and San Francisco State University. Coorganizer California Cello Club. Workshops for String teachers.
Friendships: Colin Hampton, Casals, Piatigorsky, Rostropovich, Starker, Greenhouse, Irene
Sharp.

Kazimierz Wikomirski
1900-1995
Poland
Cellist 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 Dunn
1922 1995
Great Britain
Member Lydian Ensemble, Turner String Quartet, Leodian Quartet, Rogeri Trio, and
duos with pianists Ernest Lush and Keith Swallow. Professor at the Huddersfield
School 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.

Jrg Baumann
1940 1995
Germany
Principal cello Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1976-95). Philharmonic Duo (Jrg
Baumann 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 usually
more romantic interpretations from the 1980's.

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August Wenzinger
1905 1996
Switzerland
Principal cello Bremen Orchestra. Principal cello Basel Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft
(1936-1970). Kabeler Kammermusik (Kabel Chamber Music). Kammermusikkreis
Scheck-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 the
University of Basel. Conductor Capella Coloniensis (baroque orchestra) of West
German 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 Grmmer (Cologne Conservatoire), and
Emanuel Feuermann (Berlin).
* by 1925 had mastered the Viola da gamba, and was accepted as a pioneer of historically
informed performances, helped by both gamba playing, and as conductor of Baroque orchestral
and opera music.

Ludwig Hoelscher
1908 1996
Germany
Elly Ney Trio (with Elley Ney and Max Strub). Trio with Gieseking and Taschner.
Strub Quartet (the 2nd quartet). Professor Stuttgart Hochschule.
Premieres:
Karl Hller 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 Hampton
1911 1996
Great 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 Barati
1913 1996
Hungary (later USA)
Member Budapest Concert Orchestra. Pro Ideale Quartet. Principal cello Budapest
Symphony and the Budapest Municipal Opera Orchestra. Member San Francisco
Symphony. California String Quartet. Founding conductor of the Barati Chamber
Orchestra 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 Villa
Montalvo Chamber Orchestra in Saratoga, California. Music director of the Santa
Cruz County Symphony.
A distinguished cellist, conductor, and composer. Wrote a Fantasie for Four Cellos.

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Daniel Saidenberg
1906 1997
USA (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 Andr Hekking (at Paris Conservatoire).
* He was offered assistant conductor position at New York Philharmonic Orchestra but
declined "at the last minute because the contract required him to play his cello as well as
conduct" so instead Bernstein was contracted for his post !
* He later opened an art gallery in New York.

Raya Garbousova
1909 - 1997
Georgia (later Germany, France)
Professor Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Professor at Hartt College of Music
in Connecticut. Masterclasses in Aspen, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and
Indiana University, as well as in China. She was a generous supporter of the Chicago
Cello Society, also giving several Master Classes.
Premieres:
rd
Martinu 3 Cello Sonata,
Prokofiev Cello Sonata,
Barber Cello Concerto, (also dedicated to her).
She also introduced works of Creston, Hindemith, and Lopatnikoff, and edited many
new 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 Pr, Starker,
Rostropovich, Nelsova, Greenhouse.

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Antonia Butler
1909 1997
Cellist 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 cello
sonata 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 in
Paris.

Elizabeth Cowling
1910 1997
USA
Professor 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 part
to her career. A dedicated teacher.
* also a Viola da gamba player, teacher and scholar.

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Fritz Magg
1914 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 Shafran
1923 1997
Russia (USSR)
Recitals with Richter, Enescu, Zecchi Nina Musinyan, Anton Ginsburg and Felix
Gottlieb
Premieres:
nd
Kabelevsky Concertos 1 and 2 (2 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 Kampen

1945 1997
Britain
Principal cello Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (London). Principal Cello London
Sinfonietta. Cellist of the Nash Ensemble (London). Collaborator with Fitzwilliam
Quartet.
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 Adeney
1900 1998
Great Britain, later Canada
Member Detroit Symphony Orchestra(1922). Member Toronto symphony Orchestra
(1928-1949). Founder and conductor of Beaches Concert Orchestra (Toronto). Cellist
Solway String Quartet (1948-58). Member CBC Symphony Orchestra (1952-63). Cellist
Marcus Adeney String Quartet (1950s). Professor Hambourg Conservatory (1928-51).
Professor University of Toronto (1953-63). Founder/director of the Inverness Music
Camp (Muskoka). Professor at the TCM (RCMT) 1944-85. Music critic, programme note
writer, contributor to the Strad magazine.
Music/Publications:
Book Tomorrows 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 couldnt lose by Cayle Chernin.
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tienne Pasquier
1905 1998
France
Principal cello Paris Opera Orchestra (during 40 years). String Trio Pasquier (formed
by 3 brothers!).
Dedications:
some 75 works were dedicated to the string trio mentioned above (including by
Franaix, Jolivet, Martinu, Milhaud, Roussel and Schmitt.
Piern 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 sent
to Siberia. There Messaien wrote Quartet for the end of time, premiered by 4 prisoners
including Pasquier and Messaien.

William Pleeth
1916 1999
Great Britain
Professor 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)
Music/Publications: Own book Cello (Menuhin Music Guides)
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Amaryllis Fleming
1925 1999
Britain
Professor Royal College of Music (London). Fleming String Trio (with Kenneth Essex
and 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 Baldovino
1916 - ????
Egypt (of Italian family)
While still a teenager, he played with such major orchestras as the Amsterdam
Concertgebouw, 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 Britain
BBC Symphony Orchestra (sub-principal cello), Principal cello Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, Principal cello Philharmonia Orchestra (London). (Ocasional) Principal
Cello 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 Honegger
1904 - ???? (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 and
Shanghai in 1973.
*Honeggers 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 Kilby
1903 - ???? (c.1975-1980)
Great Britain
Lighter 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 Elgars Cello Concerto.

Halina Kowalska
1913 - ????
Poland
Principal cello Warsaw Polish Radio Orchestra.
Anecdotes:
* later worked in Israel (1958) and Denmark (1971).
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Tadeusz Kowalski
1904 - ????
Poland
Principal cello Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.
Anecdotes:
* pupil of Maurice Eisenberg
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Marian Miedlar
1910 - ????
Poland
Member Katowice Radio Orchestra.
Music: author of a Cello School method book.
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Jzef Mikulski
1912 - ????
Poland
Soloist and teacher
Anecdotes:
* pupil of D. Alexanian and Pablo Casals
* was the teacher of Andrzej Orkisz andAleksander Bronislaw Ciechanski
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Adam Lucjan Schmar

1903 - ????
Poland
Principal cello Orchestra of Silesia. Professor Wroclaw
Anecdotes:
* pupil of L. Feuillard.
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CURIOSITIES! / LOS CURIOSOS!

Charlie Chaplin
1889 1977
Britain (later USA)
It is not generally known that apart from his work as a great actor and film director, Charlie
Chaplin 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 hands
the wrong way around and never changed later in life !!

Aram Ilyich Khachaturian

1903 1978
Armenia
Important 20th century composer, who started as a promising cello student before dedicating
himself 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 Cello
sonata.

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Rudolf Escher
1912-1980
Holland
Born in Amsterdam. He studied piano, cello and harmony at the Rotterdam Toonkunst
Conservatorium where he later had composition training with Willem Pijper. As a composer he
wrote mostly for orchestra, chamber groups and solo piano.

Willem Van Otterloo

1907-1982
Holland
Born in Winterswijk, Gelderland Province. Although slated for a medical career, he enrolled at
the Amsterdam Conservatory where he studied the cello with Max Orobio de Castro and
composition with Sem Dresden. He started his professional music career as a cellist with the
Utrecht City Orchestra and gradually moved up to the position of principal conductor. His very
busy conducting career precluded that much time devoted to composing but he did produce a
Symphony No. 1 (1934-5), 3 Suites for Orchestra, Suite for String Orchestra and Introduction and
Allegro.

Morey Amsterdam
1914 1996
U.S.A.
A famous comedian, known as The Human Joke Machine. Between the intense joke-filled
acting sessions, he played novelty tunes with his cello in night-clubs!
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VISIT!
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VISITA!
johnstone-music es una interesante y muy activa pgina Web del violoncellista,
compositor y arreglista DAVID JOHNSTONE un sitio Web altamente valorada entre
los msicos hispano-parlantes de muchos pases.
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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
(violn, viola, violoncello y contrabajo), vientos (flauta, oboe, clarinete, fagot), metales,
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temas musicales generales, y del mundo del violoncello, escritos por un amplio
abanico de msicos profesionales, los cuales son interesantes colaboradores.
Tambin un Directorio/Biblioteca con informacin sobre
Violoncellistas
Histricos Famosos (unos 600 cellistas presentes), y listas cronolgicas
detalladas del repertorio general del violoncello para recitales.
Los contenidos normales biografas, actuaciones, extractos de audio (unos
50), imgenes, enlaces, grabaciones, formaciones de msica de cmara,
proyectos actuales, lista de composiciones, ventas de CDs etc. La Web se completa con secciones interactivas: Agenda, Noticias, Sugerencias,
Encuesta breve, comentarios etc. Tambin una seccin de herramientas tiles
para msicos. Dejad vuestras opiniones, y aadir publicidad gratuita de
cualquier actuacin vuestra de una obra o arreglo de David Johnstone, con
enlaces a vuestras Webs, o la de los organizadores, si lo deseis.

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