** 1833 – birth of Jefte Sbolci (Florence, Italy) d.1895
cellist, quartet player & conductor; professor of cello in Florence
** 1895 – cellist Agga Fritsche was in Copenhagen and took part in a concert at the “Women’s Exhibition”, commented as:
“At this musical entertainment only works by Scandinavian lady composers were performed by members of the fair sex” (Musical News). Together with the violinists Ida Koppel and Anna Tryde and the viola player Kamma Christophersen, Agga Fritsche performed the Quartet in D minor (1861) by the Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée.
** 1898 – birth of Karel Pravoslav Sádlo (Prague) d.1971
cellist & pedagogue (famed teacher of Milos Sádlo)
** 1919 – first performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos – 3 movements of ‘Pequena Suite’ with orchestra
soloist – the composer (Salão Nobre, Rio de Janeiro)
** 1941 – birth of Csaba {Eörs Gyula} Szilvay (Budapest, Hungary)
A Finnish cellist, teacher and conductor (with his brother Géza Szilvay he founded the Helsinki Strings in 1972, conducting until retirement in 2010. He worked until 1976 as a cello teacher in Jyväskylä and then as a lecturer at the Eastern Helsinki Music Institute ; also occasionally from 1978 at the Helsinki Conservatory and the Sibelius Academy’s youth department.
** 1942 – birth of Gisela Depkat (Königsberg, Germany, receved Canadian nationality in 1960)
cellist and teacher. Many competition successes. Principal cellist with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Radio Orchestra, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra. a member of the Stratford Ensemble part of the Canadian Chamber Ensemble. A professor (amongst others) at: University of Richmond in Virginia (and as a member of its quartet-in-residence), Reykajavik College of Music in Reykjavik, Iceland, Wilfrid Laurier University, McGill University and the University of Ottawa (1976 to 1982).
** 1972 – in the Festival Internazionale/Settimane Musicali di Stresa (Italy), a recital was given at the Teatro del Palazzo dei Congressi, Stresa by Thomas Igloi (cello), with Gerard Wyss (piano)
** 1982 – on the 29th August (Montevideo, Uruguay), and the 5th September (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and 7th September (Santiago, Chile), cellist Lorne Munroe performed as invited soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Mehta), in a tour of the orchestra.
** 1982 – in a series of three Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra concerts, cellist Mischa Maisky was invited soloist today (with Gidon Kremer – violin) in Brahms – Double Concerto in A minor, Op.102, in a Jeunesse Concert Conductor: Leonard Bernstein / Musikverein, Golden Hall, Vienna
** 1987 – Colin Carr performed the Elgar Cello Concerto at the Proms
with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Atherton
** 1990 – first performance of Richard Barrett – ‘Dark Ages’ for solo ‘cello with 2 bows, commissioned by the Gaudeamus Foundation {a complex virtuoso work that the composer spent three years working on, 1987-1990!}
soloist – Frances-Marie Uitti
** 1993 – in Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s ‘KlangBogen Vienna’ concert cellist Franz Bartolomey was invited soloist in Strauss – Don Quixote, Op.35. Conductor: Daniel Baremboim / Musikverein, Golden Hall, Vienna
** 1998 – Release date (screened in Venice, Italy) of the film “Hilary and Jackie” {life of Jacqueline Du Pré}
directed by Anand Tucker, starring Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths and James Frain
