Historical Events of March 22
22 March
** 1866 - The Parisian press was consistently friendly and full of praise to the cellist Rosa Suck, and she knowing how to successfully play her ‘Hungarian’ nationalist card. This review comes from ‘La Semaine musicale’, and dated 22nd March 1866:
"Mlle. Rosa Szuk, violoncellist from Hungary, was recently heard in Paris at the Salle Erard. Before her arrival, this young artist was preceded by a reputation that she fought hard for in Pest, at the Conservatory and at the court in Vienna, where she made herself heard. Let's put it bluntly: she fully justified this reputation. Classical music is preferred by her, and that's a good sign. She dedicated her first bow stroke in our capital to Mendelssohn's Sonata in D major, a sonata whose piano part was composed by Mad. Tardieu de Malleville. The Scherzo and the Andante were warmly applauded. After the Souvenirs de Pest, a Hungarian air by Leopold Szuk, the pretty virtuoso was called. She ended the evening with the Fantaisie hongroise on motifs from the opera Bánk bán by Leopold Suck [recte: Ferenc Erkel]. The certainty of her playing, the splendour of her melodies, has given her another evocation"
** 1884 - an autograph copy of Alfredo Piatti - Solo Cello Caprice No.4 ‘Allegretto in D minor’ made "for dear Arthur Chappell's album" dated 22 March 1884, probably meant that this piece was also available separately, apart from the full 12 Caprice set.
** 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.
** 1925 - Paul Grümmer (cello) and Hans Baer (piano) give a recital in Berlin.
** 1962 – on this day, Wilfred Joseph finished writing his Cello Concerto ‘Cantus Natalis’, after almost a year of composition, and became his Op.34, although it did not receive a premiere for a further nine years when cello soloist Thomas Igloi finally presented the creation.
** 1972 - first performance of Wolfgang Rihm - Grat for cello
(Darmstadt, Germany)
** 1977 – on the 17th, 18th, 19th and 22nd of this month, cellist Lorne Monroe performed as invited soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Leinsdorf), in the Avery Fisher Hall (New York)
** 1995 - first performance of Gavin Bryars - The South Downs for cello and piano
(Bath, England)
** 1998 - in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C., a recital was given by cellist Mark Kosower, with Jee-Won Oh /piano
