Historical Events of April 27
27 April
** 1813 - birth of Wilhelm Herman Barth (Copenhagen) d.1896
composer, multi-instrumentalist (violin, horn, cello and organ) & music theorist
** 1836 - birth of Moritz Kahnt (Löbnitz, Germany) d.1904
cellist, orchestra principal cello, professor…and organist
** 1857 - first performance of Alkan - Cello Sonata, Op.47
Auguste Franchomme/cellist and composer at piano (Salle Erard, Paris)
** 1866 – Camille Saint-Saëns played Schumann's Canon for pedal piano, Liszt's Saint-François de Paule walking on the waves, and the piano part in his own Suite for cello and piano, Op.16 in a concert in Salle Pleyel, Paris. This was an awe-inspiring event – he performed in front of Berlioz, Gounod, Liszt, Hiller! Also included in this special concert was the Serenade for piano, organ, violin and viola/cello, Op.15.
** 1882 – On 27th April, Pau {Pablo} Casals gave his first ever musical performance as second soprano in the El Vendrell choir! His father started teaching him music and specifically piano, and he began his primary school study at the Escola Montserrat in El Vendrell.
** 1891 - in the Princes’ Hall, Piccadilly (London) the third performance of three ‘Master Jean Gerardy’s Violoncello Recitals’ was heard, accompanied by Mr Waddington Cooke.
** 1918 - first performance of Bax - Folk-Tale for cello and piano
(Wigmore Hall, London)
** 1928 - Belgian cellist Jeanne Kufferath performed in the Lyceum de Belgique in Brussels, a foundation of the "Union Patriotique des Femmes Belges". It was a concert that exclusively presented works by the American composer Swan Hennessy; she played ‘Rhapsodie Gaélique’ and a ‘Suite Celtique’ (both for violoncello and piano) plus a ‘Petit Trio Celtique’ for violin and piano was also heard.
** 1952 - Daniil Shafran recorded Concerto for Cello No.1 in G minor, Op. 49 by Dmitri Kabalevsky with the USSR Radio/TV Large Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dmitri Kabalevsky
** 1960 - birth of Misha Quint (St. Petersburg)
cellist & music director
** 1963 - cellist Anner Bijlsma performed as soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, in Tchaikovsky – Rococo Variations, Op.33. Three concerts, in Amsterdam (13th and 14th January) and Assen (27th April) and conducted by Bernard Haitink
** 1966 - Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd Cello Concerto on this day, to be premiered in September of the same year
** 1976 - birth of Isabel Campbell (Glasgow)
cellist, composer & songwriter
