On this cello day

** 1867 - birth of Emil Leichsenring (Klingenthal, Vogtland, Germany)
cellist, member of the Meiningen Court Orchestra, Bulow Orchestra at Hamburg and Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, member of the string quartet of the Meiningen court chapel; professor

** 1884 - first performance of slow movement to Stanford - Cello Concerto
soloist - Robert Hausmann (CUMS concert, UK)

​** 1899 – Alwin Schroeder performed J.S. Bach – Suite No.3 (all or most of?) in Boston. The Boston Journal reviewed:
"These suites have been edited most carefully by Mr. Schroeder, who was the player last night. He played in his modestly authoritative manner, and displayed in full the purity of tone, the rare musical intelligence, in a word the consummate artistry which distinguishes this master of chamber music."

** 1902 - cellist/composer Paul Bazelaire completed the work ‘Impression de Russie’ for solo cello and orchestra on this day in Berlin.

** 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.

** 1910 - cellist Gerard Hekking performed as soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, in Haydn – Cello Concerto in D Major. Concert in Amsterdam, conducted by Willem Mengelberg/Evert Cornelis (which? - two names are shown in orchestral records; it is unlikely that there were two performances the same day with different conductors)

** 1921 – Reading Symphony Orchestra (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.), under conductor Harry Fahrbach, programmed a concert on this day featuring the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 2, Op. 30 by Victor Herbert, with soloist Hans Kronold, cello

** 1923 - in the Saal Bechstein (Berlin) a programme titled “Moderne Cello-Sonaten” was given by Sela Trau (cello) and Felix Petyrek (piano).

** 1923 – in a Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra concert in Prague, Friedrich Buxbaum was cello soloist in Strauss – Don Quixote, Op.35 on this day. Orchestral music of Mahler was also heard.
Conductor: Richard Strauss

** 1930 - first performance of Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes
soloist Pablo Casals with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by John Barbirolli (London)

** 1931 - An Oxford Ladies' Musical Society concert featured a recital with Alexander Fachiri (cello) and Professor Wührer (piano).

** 1947 - birth of Beat Richner (Zürich, Switzerland) d.2018
Swiss physician (founder of children's hospitals in Cambodia) and cellist

** 1950 - The young Canadian-born 'cellist, Sherley Trepel, made her second New York appearance at the Town Hall, featuring the first performance of an "Arioso" by Earl George, and sonatas by Strauss and Schubert.

** 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

** 1969 – birth of Susanna Ulla Marjukka Mälkki (Helsinki)
Orchestral conductor and cellist

** 1979 – birth of José María Cuadra (Antequera, Málaga, Spain)
cellist, orchestral musician, teacher of cello and double bass, composer….also plays/played guitar

** 1988 – the premiere of Vivian Fine’s Sonata for Violoncello and Piano
‘in homage to Claude Debussy’ (composed in 1986) took place in New York City, performed by Maxine Neuman (cello), and Joan Stein (piano).

** 1995 - first performance of Tan Dun - Yi1: Intercourse of Fire and Water, for Cello and Orchestra
soloist Anssi Karttunen, with Finnish Radio Orchestra, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste (Helsinki)

** 1996 – birth of Stéphanie Huang (Montigny-le-Tilleul, Charleroi, Belgium)
principal Cello Orchestre de Paris, soloist and chamber musician
{she is the daughter of Myriam Bultinck, a Belgian cellist}