Historical Events of February 22
22 February
** 1761 - birth of Erik Tulindberg (Vähäkyrö, Finland) d.1814
composer, violinist & cellist. A member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He wrote a violin concerto (a very early work), and six string quartets.
** 1892 - in the Concerthaus-Conventgarten, Hamburg (Germany), an orchestral subscription concert conducted by Hans von Bülow featured the soloists Jettka Finkenstein (vocal) and Hugo Becker (cello).
** 1898 - Edmund van der Straeten received glowing words on this day from famous cellist David Popper about his new publication “The Technics of Violoncello Playing”; Popper wrote (in exact words):
“Honoured Sir and Friend. --- In sending me your book on The Technics of Violoncello Playing you have given me a real and true pleasure. I know of no work, tutors and studies not excepted, which presents so much valuable material, so much that is absolutely to the point, avoiding - I might say, on principle - all that is superfluous and dispensable. Every earnest thinking violomcello student will in future make your book his own and thereby receive hints which will further and complete the instruction of his master. I congratulate you and ourselves most heartily on the new violoncello book. With kind regards, yours most sincerely, David Popper” [Budapest, February 22nd, 1898]
** 1911 – birth of Konrad Lachner (Nuremburg, Germany) d.1989
cellist, composer and conductor
** 1917 - birth of Adolfo Odnoposoff (Buenos Aires) d.1992
cellist, influential exponent of Latin classical music as soloist, orchestra principal cello {based in Israel, Peru, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, U.S.A.}
** 1933 - on this day cellist, conductor and composer Konrad Henryk Adamus was awarded the Polish Silver Cross of Merit in 1933
** 1941 – birth of Evangeline Benedetti (Austin, Texas)
Fine woman cellist who was the first female cello player to play in the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Also, she is an author (a notable book of hers was titled “Cello, Bow and You: Putting it All Together”), a cello teacher, and was a figure in the Alexander Technique movement. A member of the cello faculty with the iClassical Academy - she served for 20 years on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music and is a sought-after master clinician and guest artist. She has given master classes in many places. She has served on the boards of The Bloomingdale School of Music and The Violoncello Society of New York.
** 1951 - cellist Enrico Mainardi performed as soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, in Haydn - Cello Concerto in D Major. Two concerts, in Amsterdam (21st and 22nd February), conducted by Josef Krips
** 1982 – the premiere of Fritz Geissler’s Concertino for cello and small orchestra (written 1981), by cellist Hans-Joachim Scheitzbach, with the Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ude Nissen, in the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt of East Berlin. There is a recording of this first performance.
** 1987 - concerto debut of Alban Gerhardt (Haydn - Cello Concerto in D Major)
(Berlin - Berlin Philharmonie)
** 1990 – cellist Yo-Yo Ma gave the world premiere of Ezra Lademan – Cello Concerto, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Herbert Blomstedt
