Category: Historical

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A Brief History and Analysis of Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo

By Tracie Price September 16, 2023

Subjects Historical

Tags Cello Repertoire, Ernest Bloch, Historical Analysis, Internet Cello Society Archive, Schelomo, The Jewish Cycle

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Opening Paths: Mexican Composer Ricardo Castro and Latin America’s First Cello Concerto (Part 3)

By Natali Herrera-Pacheco, Horacio Contreras, and Germán Marcano June 18, 2022

Subjects Historical, Repertoire

Tags cello concerto, Cello Repertoire, Latin America, Origins of concerto, Pedagogy, Ricardo Castro, Sources, Technique

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Opening Paths: Mexican Composer Ricardo Castro and Latin America’s First Cello Concerto (Part 2)

By Natali Herrera-Pacheco, Horacio Contreras, and Germán Marcano June 12, 2022

Subjects Historical, Repertoire

Tags cello concerto, Cello Repertoire, José Joaquim Emérico Lobo de Mesquita, Karl Davydov, Latin America, Marix Loevensohn, Mexican Revolution, Pablo Casals, Ricardo Castro

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Opening Paths: Mexican Composer Ricardo Castro and Latin America’s First Cello Concerto (Part 1)

By Natali Herrera-Pacheco, Horacio Contreras, and Germán Marcano June 4, 2022

Subjects Historical, Repertoire

Tags cello concerto, Cello Repertoire, José Joaquim Emérico Lobo de Mesquita, Latin America, Mexican Revolution, Oaxacan Porfirio Díaz, Ricardo Castro

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Schools of Cello Playing: Russia and Armenia

By Janet Horvath March 18, 2022

Subjects Historical

Tags Alexander Wierzbilowicz, Alfred von Glehn, Antonio Janigro, Armenian School, Bernard Greenhouse, Carl Fuchs, David Soyer, Davidov Cello Concerto, Diran Alexanian, Enesco, Feuermann, Fournier, Franco-Belgian School, Friedrich Grützmacher, German School, Gregor Piatigorsky, Hanus Wihan, Hugo Becker, Janet Horvath, Joseph Joachim, Julius Klengel, Karl Davidov, Leo Stern, Mischa Schneider, Pablo Casals, Raya Garbusova, Russian School, Schools of Cello Playing

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A Biography of Gregor Piatigorsky (August, 2000)

By Robert Battey March 16, 2022

Subjects Artists, Historical

Tags Artur Rubinstein, Biography, Carl Flesch, Don Quixote, Gregor Piatigorsky, ICS, Internet Cello Society, Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, Robert Battey, USC, Vladimir Horowitz

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Schools of Cello Playing: France

By Janet Horvath March 6, 2022

Subjects Historical

Tags Adrien François Servais, Andre Navarra, Auguste Franchomme, Bernard Greenhouse, Chopin, Eleanor Aller, Elsa Hilger, Felix Salmond, Frank Miller, French, French Cello School, Jean Louis Duport, Joseph Platel, Jules Delsart, Leonard Rose, Maurice Gendron, Paul Bazelaire, Paul Tortelier, Pierre Fournier

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Baroque Dance and the Bach Cello Suites (November, 2002)

By Tim Janof March 2, 2022

Subjects Historical, Repertoire

Tags Anna Mansbridge, Bach Cello Suites, Baroque Dance, Nathaniel Rosen, Truls Mork

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Schools of Cello Playing: Germany

By Janet Horvath February 11, 2022

Subjects Historical

Tags Alfred Piatti, Bernhard Cossmann, Bernhard Romberg, David Popper, Emanuel Feuermann, Friedrich August Kummer, Friedrich Dotzauer, Friedrich Grützmacher, German School, Hugo Becker, Janos Starker, Julius Klengel, Schools of Cello Playing

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The Origins of Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major (Part 2 of 2)

By Brinton Smith January 27, 2021

Subjects Historical, Repertoire

Tags Anton Kraft, brinton smith, Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Franz Joseph Haydn, Houston Symphony, James Cervetto, Origin of Haydn's Cello Concerto

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The Origins of Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major (Part 1 of 2)

By Brinton Smith January 26, 2021

Subjects Historical, Repertoire

Tags Anton Kraft, brinton smith, Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Franz Joseph Haydn, Houston Symphony, James Cervetto, Origin of Haydn's Cello Concerto

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A Biographical Sketch of David Popper

By Robert Battey January 20, 2021

Subjects Historical

Tags Biographical Sketch, Biography, David Popper, Etudes, Franz Liszt

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Exiles in Paradise: on the “Hollywood Renaissance” and Finding New Repertoire for the Cello: Part 2

By Brinton Smith March 24, 2020

Subjects Historical, Repertoire

Tags korngold, Piatagorsky, Rosza

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Exiles in Paradise: on the “Hollywood Renaissance” and Finding New Repertoire for the Cello: Part 1

By Brinton Smith March 15, 2020

Subjects Historical, Repertoire

Tags arnold schoenberg, brinton smith, cello, igor stravinsky, Jascha Heifetz, Leopold Godowsky, Los Angeles, Sergei Rachmaninoff'

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A Much Maligned Cellist: The True Story of Felix Salmond and the Elgar Cello Concerto (Part 4)

By Tully Potter February 15, 2018

Subjects Historical, Repertoire

Tags cello concerto, composers, criticism, Elgar, Felix Salmond, juilliard, london symphony orchestra, premiere, recording

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