Historical Events of April 4
4 April
** 1871 - first performance of Karl Eckert - Cello Concerto
soloist - David Popper (Prague). No further details are as of yet forthcoming.
** 1875 - birth of Jacques Gaillard (Ensival, Verviers, Belgium)
cellist, professor at conservatoires of Geneva and Mons; member of Brussels Quartet, professor at Liège Conservatoire.
** 1882 – at a Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Reinhard (Reinhold) Hummer was cello soloist in the Volkmann – String Serenade No.3, Op.69. Orchestral works of Wagner, Weber and Beethoven were also heard.
Conductor: Hans Richter / Place: Industrie-Halle (Graz, Austria)
** 1886 - first performance of Alfredo Piatti - Cello Sonata No.2
Alfredo Piatti/cello & Agnes Zimmermann
** 1897 - in the series of the Sunday Afternoon Orchestral Concerts given at the Queen's Hall, Langham Place, London, featured soloists were Señor Arbos (violin) and Mr W.H. Squire (cello), with H.W. Richards (organ).
** 1914 - Casals marries the U.S. soprano Susan Metcalfe in New Rochelle, New York, and together they begin a tour across the United States
** 1924 - first performance of John Ireland - Cello Sonata
Beatrice Harrison/cello and Evelyn Howard-Jones/piano (Aeolian Hall, London)
** 1932 - birth of Richard {Green} Lugar (Indianapolis, U.S.A.) d.2019
politician, US Senator & adolescent cellist and church choir singer
** 1970 – cellist Zara Nelsova performed as soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, in Elgar - Cello Concerto, Op.85. Two concerts, in Amsterdam (3rd April), and Den Haag (4th April), conducted by Bernard Haitink
** 1974 – birth of Dagmar Spengler (Herten, Germany)
A German cellist, now principal cello of the Staatskapelle Orchestra of Weimar.
She played as solo cellist in the "Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen" and, immediately after her studies, was cellist in the Staatskapelle Dresden (between 2001 and 2003). She plays in a cello-piano recital duo with Oliver Dreschsel.
** 1976 - in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C., a recital was given by cellist Douglas Moore, with Robert Parris /piano
** 1983 - The now famous book “History of the Violoncello” by Russian pedagogue Lev Ginsburg was finally published in the English-speaking world on this day - an encyclopedia of nearly 400 pages on the history of the cello and cellists
** 1986 – cellist Erling Blöndal Bengtsson recorded a live performance playing Bent Lorentzen’s Cello Concerto (1984) on Danish Radio.
** 1995 - the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Claus Peter Flor, featured cello soloist Lynn Harrell at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham (England).
** 1999 - birth of Sheku Kanneh-Mason (Nottingham, England)
cellist
