Historical Events of April 28
28 April
** 1818 – birth of (Nicolaus) Carl Gänsbacher (Hildburghausen, Germany) d.1888
cellist and composer
** 1819 - birth of Karl Grimm (Hildburghausen, Germany) d.1888
cellist, principal cello at the Court Theatre at Wiesbaden for nearly 50 years! He also composed lighter cello music.
** 1852 - second performance of Sterndale Bennett - Cello Sonata Duo in A minor
(Willis’s Rooms, London)
** 1877 - at the Crystal Palace Saturday Orchestral Concerts (South London) the featured invited soloists on this day were Mrs Osgood and Mr Edward Lloyd (vocal), with the Crystal Palace Choir and ‘Herr Robert Hausmann’ (cello).
** 1907 - cellist Gerard Hekking performed as soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, in Bruch – Kol Nidrei, Op.47. Concert in Amsterdam, conducted by Willem Mengelberg
** 1941 - birth of Haflidi Hallgrimsson (Iceland)
composer and cellist {based Scotland/England}
** 1956 - Ernest Bloch completed writing his Suite for Solo Cello No.2
** 1965 – Evangeline (Marko) Benedetti, a 24-year-old cellist made her debut in Carnegie Recital Hall, to lavish praise:
“(she) announced herself in her first selection as the possessor of the big, vibrant tone one likes to hear from her instrument”.
** 1979 - first performance of Bridge - Scherzetto for cello and piano
cello/Julian Lloyd Webber (Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, England)
** 1994 – birth of Ella van Poucke (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
cellist. Performs in recitals with Jean-Claude vanden Eynden, Caspar Vos, and Nicolas van Poucke (her brother). In 2022 Ella was appointed cello professor at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.
