On this cello day

** 1855 - birth of Heinrich Grünfeld (Prague) d.1931
cellist, court solo cellist {based Germany}

** 1888 - at the Crystal Palace Saturday Orchestral Concerts (South London) the featured invited soloists on this day were ‘Nikita’, Madame Carlotta Recoschéwicz and Carl Formes (vocal), Hans Wessely (violin) and Monsieur E. Gillet (cello). This was billed as a ‘Mr Manns's Benefit Concert’.

** 1901 - cello performance in London - Madame Kirkby Lunn with Mr Clyde Twelvetrees (cello)
unclear as to whether orchestral or chamber concert

** 1931 - birth of John Tseng-Hsin Hsu Shantou (China) d.2018
viol player, barytonist, cellist, and conductor - specialist in French baroque viol music and a professor of music at Cornell University {based in U.S.A.}

** 1932 - in the Saal Bechstein (Berlin) a programme titled “Cello-Abend” was given by Emanuel Feuermann.

** 1934 - birth of Jascha Silberstein {birth name: Hannes Bruno Willer} (Stettin, Germany, now Poland) d.2008
cellist, opera orchestra principal cello {based USA}

** 1956 – the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performed on tour in Takarazuka (Takarazuka Theatre) with cellist Emanuel Brabec and violinist Willi Boskovsky featuring in Brahms – Double Concerto in A minor, Op.102.

** 1962 – the premiere took place of Günter Bialas - Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (composed the previous year) in Stuttgart, Germany.
Cellist ? The work was later published by Bärenreiter Kassel

** 1989 – on the 21st, 22nd and 25th of this month, cellist Lorne Munroe performed as invited soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Herbig), in the Avery Fisher Hall (New York)

Birthday Greetings ** birth of Gabriel Faur (Bucharest) / cellist, orchestral principal, soloist {based in Switzerland}