** 1825 – birth of Pièrre de Mol (Brussels)
cellist & composer; teacher of violoncello at the Brussels Conservatoire and solo cello at the theatre at Besancon; chorus master at Brussels Opera, and choir training in general; awarded the Prix de Rome for a cantata
** 1841 – Clara Schumann/piano played with Carl Wittman/cello Mendelssohn – Cello Sonata No.1 & Beethoven – Cello sonata No.3
** 1888 – cellist William E. Whitehouse performs for the first time in his career the Brahms – Cello Sonata in F Major, Op.99 in the ‘Wednesday Pop Concerts’ in London (the work had been written barely a couple of years previously) so this may have been a British ‘premiere’
** 1893 – birth of Ennio Bolognini (Buenos Aires, Argentina) d.1979
cellist, orchestra principal cello, composer and conductor (plus guitarist, professional boxer, pilot and flight instructor!)
** 1898 – birth of Julius Ansco Bruinier (Frankfurt, Germany) d.1972
A German musician well-known in the Berlin jazz-dance music band scenes. He played both trumpet and cello. However, he was an engineer by chief profession.
** 1902 – Jacques Renard was cello soloist in Camille Saint‐Saëns – Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, with The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra conducted by Henry Wood {Prom Concert, Queen’s Hall, London}
** 1912 – the Brahms – Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra was performed on today’s date in Berlin by soloists Michael & Joseph Press with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
** 1923 – Bax finishes writing his Cello Sonata in Eb Major
** 1935 – first performance of Arnold Schoenberg/Monn – Cello Concerto
soloist – Emanuel Feuermann with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (London)
** 1946 – On this day in 1946 Pau Casals was appointed ‘Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honour’
** 1954 – first performance of Milhaud – Suite Cisalpine, Op.332, for cello and orchestra
(Paris)
** 1963 – in an Oxford Subscription Concert Paul Tortelier (cello) with Geoffrey Parsons (piano) gave a recital
** 1964 – cellist Anner Bijlsma performed as soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, in Haydn – Cello Concerto in C Major. Three concerts, in Amsterdam (4th, 5th and 7th November), conducted by Peter Erös
** 1964 – first US performance of Tcherepnin – Solo Cello Suite, Op.76
soloist – Heinrich Joachim (Carnegie Recital Hall, New York)
** 1972 – a most important date in the life of cellist Mischa Maisky – at 9.00am on this day he arrived at Vienna, en route to Israel, in emigration from the USSR after a period of grave problems (including imprisonment) with the Soviet authorities – he has always considered this his ‘second birthday’!
** 1974 – cellist Tibor de Machula performed as soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, in Schumann – Cello Concerto, Op.129. Two concerts, in Amsterdam (6th and 7th November), conducted by Mario Rossi
** 1987 – on the 5th, 6th, 7th and 24th of this month, cellist Lorne Munroe performed as invited soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Leinsdorf), in the Avery Fisher Hall (New York)
** 1989 – birth of Maya Fridman (Moscow)
Dutch-Russian cellist. Her concerts and recordings focus on the development of contemporary music for cello and voice.
