Historical Events of April 16
16 April
** 1855 - the “Fantaisie sur un Theme original pour le Violoncelle avec accompagnement de l’Orchestre" of Carl Leopold Boehm was dated as finished “Carlsruhe, April 16, 1855.”
** 1866 - birth of Heinrich Kruse (Arolsen, Germany)
cellist, principal cello of court orchestra of Cassels, member of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra and of the Max Fiedler Orchestra; several original pieces for cello
** 1883 - cellist Víctor Mirecki Larramat inaugurates, with a cello recital, the Sala Zozaya, Madrid to a clamorous reception from the public
** 1889 - birth of Charlie Chaplan (London) d.1977
actor, film director & cellist!
** 1898 - first performance of Fauré - Sicilienne Op.78, for cello and piano
(Paris)
** 1899 - birth of Giulio Cesare Gedda (Turin, Italy) d.1970
Italian conductor and composer. He played cello and organ, and began conducting in 1932. He wrote a Cello Concerto, and a Concerto for 4 Saxophones (1952). Unfortunately, he ended his days in a mental institution.
** 1908 - on 16th April 1908, in Brighton (England), 22-year-old cellist Philip Abas {Abbas} married the three years younger Englishwoman Beatrice Eleanor Sanderson, daughter of a candle-maker. The first daughter ‘Isobel Rodrigues Abas’ was born in 1909, followed in 1912 by ‘Beatrice Frances Abas’. However, a tragedy struck in 1915 when his wife and children perished on the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania, sunk by a German submarine.
** 1957 - At the Theater of the University of Puerto Rico, during a rehearsal with the Festival Orchestra, Pau Casals suffered a heart attack
** 1999 – Michael Sanderling, cellist, gave the premiere/broadcast of Frank Michael Beyer – “Canto di giorno” (1998/99), for cello and orchestra, with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Giuseppe Mega, at the Great Broadcasting Hall, House of Broadcasting, Berlin
