Historical Events of May 21
21 May
** 1856 - in the Exeter Hall, London was Monsieur Benedict's Annual Grand Evening Concert - this was a two-part vocal and orchestral concert in which Benedict featured as conductor, piano soloist, and composer. The programme lists the various vocal and instrumental soloists, including Herr Reichardt, Signor Belletti, Madame Goldschmidt Lind and Madame Pauline Viardot (vocal), Miss S. Goddard and Miss B. Williams (piano), Signor Piatti (cello) and Herr Ernst (violin).
** 1871 - birth of Carl Müller (Kreuznach on the Nahe, Germany)
cellist, co--founder Hich String Quartet, principal cello National Theatre Orchestra of Mannheim, cellist of Mannheim Quartet, organizer of ‘sonata soirées’
** 1885 - birth of Julien Paul Blitz (Ghent, Belguim) d.1951
cellist, conductor, and teacher {based U.S.A.}
He moved to the United States with his family at the age of two. He commenced musical studies in 1901 back in Belgium, at the Ghent Conservatory. Blitz was engaged as a cellist in the Kursaal Orchestra in Ostend, Belgium, and then decided to return to the United States. He lived in New York City briefly, then accepted a position at Baylor College in Belton, Texas.
His attention turned to conducting. In 1913, Blitz founded and became the first music director of the Houston Symphony. Blitz moved to Dallas in 1950, where he taught and coached music in the public schools and performed as a guest cellist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. His son Edouard Marquis Blitz, also a cellist, became the assistant principal cellist of the Dallas Symphony!
** 1894 - in a concert of the Wolff Musical Union (1894), the programme featured Chaminade and Widor, including the first performances of Widor, Piano Quartet and Duets for Piano and Cello. ‘Monsieur Delsart’ was credited as the cellist.
** 1951 - birth of Charles Arthur Russell (Iowa, USA) d.1992
cellist (avante-garde, Indian classical music), composer & singer (soft tenor voice).
** 1984 - birth of Rupert Gillett (England)
principally a jazz cellist, but also singer, composer & multi-instrumentalist active on the social networks {based London}
** 1991 - José Santos Gómez /cello and Alvaro Medina Castejón /piano made a live recording for Spanish National Radio of Gaspar Cassadó - Sonata nello stile antico spagnuolo for Cello and Piano (1925)
Sala Zuloaga, Segovia, Castilla y León, Spain
** 1997 - Arnau Tomás/cello and Javier Pérez de Azpeitia/piano performed Luis Aramburu Martínez - ‘Aria: estilo antiguo’, Cleto Zabala Arámbarri - ‘Melodía Dramática’, and José de Uruñuela Fernández - ‘Pavana’, in a concert recorded by Spanish National Radio
Iglesia Capuchinos, Renteria, Basque Country
