Historical Events of April 22
22 April
** 1870 - birth of Isaäc Mossel (Rotterdam) d.1923
cellist, orchestra principal cello; solo violoncellist at the “Konzerthaus” in Berlin, and in the following year also of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; principal cello at the Concertgebouw at Amsterdam, teacher at the conservatoire and at the school of the “Maatschappij tot bevordering van Toonkunst”; among many honourable distinctions he received was the title of “Officier de l’Instruction Publique” from the ‘French government.
** 1871 - birth of James Richardson (Manchester, England)
cellist, principal cello Manchester Philharmonic Orchestra, principal cello professor at the Manchester School of Music, lecturer on cello matters (history, literature etc.) in the north of England
** 1884 - birth of Semyon {Matveyevich} Kozolupov (Krasnokholmskaya, Russia) d.1961
cellist, chamber musician & professor
** 1897 - a notable historical concert on this day, a “Johannes Brahms Memorial Concert”; with the Joachim Quartet (Joachim, Kruse, Wirth, Robert Hausmann on cello), and with Moser on 2nd viola, and Hugo Dechert on 2nd violoncello. The programme included all music of Brahms - Quartet in C minor, Op.51, Sextet in Bb Major, Op.18, and the Quintet in G major, Op.111 (Sing-Akademie, Berlin)
** 1920 - first full performance of Stanford - Irish Concertino for solo violin, solo cello and orchestra
May Harrison/violin & Beatrice Harrison/cello (Bournemouth, England)
** 1920 - birth of Arthur Winograd (New York City) d.2010
cellist, chamber musician, orchestral musical director.
He was the music director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and the founding cellist of the Juilliard String Quartet.
** 1928 - first performance of Carlos Chávez - Sonatina for cello and piano
(the Copland-Sessions concerts of Contemporary Music takes place at the Edyth Totten Theatre, New York)
** 1940 - one of the last performances of virtuoso Emmanuel Feuermann - of D'Albert's Cello Concerto, Op.20, at Carnegie Hall with the National Orchestral Association conducted by Leon Barzin.
** 1958 – birth of Teet Järvi (Estonia) d.2025
cellist. Principal cello of the Estonian national symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with the Tallinen String Quartet and the Balktic Truio. In 1993 he moved to Finland - working with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and the FINEST string quartet and teaches cello at the Lahti Conservatoire.
** 1958 – French composer’s André Amellér’s four-movement Suite florentine for violoncello solo Op. 358 (1984) was premiered on this day by cellist Hélène Dautry at the Salle Cortot, Paris.
** 1972 – bith of David Sagastume Balsategui (Vitoria, Basque Country)
Spanish-Basque counter tenor & cellist, specializing in mediaeval music
** 1991 – cellist Lynn Harrell performed as invited soloist along with Pinchas Zukermann with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Mehta), in the Avery Fisher Hall (New York)
** 1986 - The Delmé String Quartet gave a radio broadcast for BBC Radio 3 of Haydn String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 76 - the quartet were Granville Jones (violin) Jürgen Hess (violin), John Underwood (viola) and Joy Hall (cello) - Joy would have been 77 years old then!
** 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)
** 1995 – cellist Barbara Hedlund was cello soloist (along with violinist Kathleen Ryan and pianist Lydia Artymiw) in a performance of the Beethoven Triple Concerto in C Major, with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Charry, in the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois, U.S.A.
