Documenting the cello
Directory - Historically important cellists
A Legacy of Cellists
An alphabetical directory listing hundreds of key historical cellists, with logical structured entries detailing their careers, premieres, publications, and anecdotes.
Please note that to maintain more of a complete historical context, cellists that are known to have been living in the twenty-first century are not included here.
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘A’
{Evaristo Felice dall’Abacco – to – Theodore Edward Aylward (Jnr.)
Listing DHC-01-A
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-01-A.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘B’
{Lorenzo Balbi – to – Friedrich Buxbaum}
Listing DHC-02-B
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-02-B.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘C’
{Julius Cabisius – to – Aurel Czerwenka}
Listing DHC-03-C
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-03-C.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘D’
{Alison Dalrymple – to – Raoul Duquette}
Listing DHC-04-D
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-04-D.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘E’
{William B. Ebann – to – Johann Philipp Eysel}
Listing DHC-05-E
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-05-E.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘F’
{Alexander Fachiri – to – Frederick Christian Funck}
Listing DHC-06-F
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-06-F.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘G’
{Domenico Gabrielli – to – Isadore Gusikoff}
Listing DHC-07-G
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-07-G.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘H’
{Robert Haas – to – Johann Nepomuk Huttner}
Listing DHC-08-H
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-08-H.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘I-J’
{Thomas Igloi – to – Helen Just}
Listing DHC-09-I-J
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-09-I-J.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘K’
{Christopher van Kampen – to – Hans Kronold}
Listing DHC-10-K
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-10-K.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘L’
{Gustave Labelle – to – Charles Lucas}
Listing DHC-11-L
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-11-L.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘M’
{Tibor de Machula – to – A. Muzikant}
Listing DHC-12-M
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-12-M.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘N’
{Andre Navarra – to – Louis Pierre Norblin}
Listing DHC-13-N
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-13-N.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘O-P-Q’
{Camillo Oblach – to – Gagliemo Quarenghi}
Listing DHC-14-O-P-Q
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-14-O-P-Q.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘R’
{Hippolyte (François) Rabaud – to – Alejandro Ruiz de Tejada}
Listing DHC-15-R
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-15-R.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘S’
{Alfred Saal – to – Stanislaw (Stanislaus) Szczepanowski}
Listing DHC-16-S
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-16-S.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘T’
{Muriel Taylor – to – Arnold Trowell}
Listing DHC-17-T
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-17-T.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘U-V’
{Alexander Uber – to – Richard Vollrath}
Listing DHC-18-U-V
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-18-U-V.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘W’
{{Patricia} Ruth Waddell (Waddel) – to – Franz Xaver Woczitka}
Listing DHC-19-W
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-19-W.pdf
Historical Cellists with a surname (or title) starting with ‘X-Y-Z’
{Thelma Yellin-Bentwich – to – Joseph Zyka}
Listing DHC-20-X-Y-Z
https://johnstone-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DHC-20-X-Y-Z.pdf
