Historical Events of March 12
12 March
** 1849 - birth of Nicasio Jiménez (Trinidad, Cuba) d.1891
cellist, orchestra musician, chamber musician & teacher & occasional violinist
** 1860 – cellist Rosa Suck often performed Hungarian pieces in the 1860s. Indeed, as a Hungarian woman, she developed a personal style of playing based on Hungarian folklore. The "Kronstädter Zeitung" stated on this day that Rosa Suck often appeared in Hungarian national costume or with a "national bow in her hair" (12th March 1860)
** 1862 – in an orchestral concert on Žofín Island given by the Estates Theatre orchestra and the Hlahol male voice (Prague) David Popper was an invited soloist playing the Adagio and Rondo from his own Cello Concerto No.2, Op. 24
** 1881 – Richard Strauss completed the first draft of the second movement to his Cello Sonata (to become his Opus 6) – the music was later revised.
** 1882 – on this date the premiere was heard of Charles-Marie Widor’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.41. The music was written in 1877, and dedicated to "Madame la Comtesse de Beaumont-Castries”.
** 1892 - first performance of Saint-Saëns - Chant Saphique, Op.91 for cello and piano
?/cello (Paris)
** 1900 - first performance of Jean Sibelius - Malinconia op.20 for cello and piano
(Helsinki)
** 1909 – cellist Heinrich Warnke performed as soloist in German composer Hermann Grädener’s Concerto No.1 in E minor, Op.45 on 12th and 13th March, and on the 22nd and 23rd March (all of 1909), with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall of Boston. The conductor on all occasions was Max Fiedler. The concerto had been published a year previously, and Jacques van Lier appears to be the dedicatee.
** 1911- cellist Pau {Pablo} Casals performed as soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, in Schumann – Cello Concerto, Op.129 and Röntgen – Cello Concerto. Two concerts, in Den Haag (11th March) and Amsterdam (12th March) and conducted by Willem Mengelberg, with the composer conducting his own composition.
** 1917 – on this date the premiere was heard of Paul Hindemith’s ‘Drei Stücke für Violoncello und Klavier’ (Three Cello and Piano pieces), Op.8, composed earlier that same year. They were played by Maurits Frank (cello) and Willy Renner (piano), in the Kleiner Sallbau, Frankfurt (Germany).
** 1936 – mention was made in ‘El Sol’ (Madrid) of a recital in memory of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer in the ‘Residencia de Señoritas’ featuring the pianist Iniesta and the cellist Vivó, with poetry readings by Halma Angélico.
** 1964 - first performance of Britten - Symphony for Cello and Orchestra
soloist - Mstislav Rostropovich, with Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the composer (Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire - recorded by Soviet radio)
** 1967 - cellist Tibor de Machula performed as soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, in C.P.E. Bach – Cello Concerto in A Major. Two concerts in Amsterdam (12th and 13th March), conducted by Eugen Jochum
** 1978 - in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C., a recital was given by cellist Bert Phillips, with Toby Blumenthal /piano
** 1981 – Janos Starker recorded Bartok – Cello Concerto (a realization of the Viola Concerto for cello!), with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Von Dohnanyi.
** 1983 - cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed as soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, in Dvorak – Cello Concerto, Op.104. Three concerts, in Amsterdam (9th and 10th March), and Rotterdam (12th March), conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas
** 1986 – cello soloist Felix Schmidt performed as a live concert recording the Dutilleux – Cello Concerto “Tout un Monde Lointain…”, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier.
** 1987 - Luisa Vasconcelos/cello and Jorge Peixinho/piano performed Tomás Marco - ‘Maya’, for cello and piano (1968-69) in a concert recorded by Spanish National Radio
Auditorio de la Universidad, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
** 1990 - the Philharmonia Orchestra (London), conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli, invited Mischa Maisky as cello soloist (? work ?)
