Historical Events of May 4
4 May
** 1722 - Pippo Amadio played a concerto on the “bass violin" ( = cello) at Signor Carbonelli’s concert in London, May 4th, 1722, according to an advertisement in the “London Gazette.”
** 1862 – birth of Romeo Antoniazzi (Cremona, Italy) d.1925
renowned luthier of string instruments, including fine examples for the cello
** 1905 - birth of Mátyás György Seiber (Budapest) d. 1960
composer & cellist
** 1929 - birth of Audrey Hepburn (Brussels) d.1993
Famous British actress, a film and fashion icon, humanitarian….and she knew the basics of cello playing!! (good enough on the instrument to actually play in the film “Love in the afternoon”, released in 1957)
** 1937 - birth of Ron Carter (Ferndale, MI, USA)
jazz and classical bassist, cellist, teacher & bandleader
** 1944 – at a Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra ‘75th Birthday Pfitzner concert’, Ludwig Hölicher performed as cello soloist in Hans Pfitzner - Cello Concerto No.3 in A minor, Op.52. Conductor: Joseph Keilberth / Musikverein, Golden Hall, Vienna
** 1954 - first performance of Ernst Krenek - Cello Concerto No.1
(Los Angeles, USA)
** 1962 – birth of Lauri Pulakka (Finland) d.2024
a noted pedagogue, teaching cello, Baroque cello, viola da gamba and music history. Professor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki., He also taught at the Novia and Centria universities of applied sciences, and the Central Ostrobothnia Music College.
Performed in the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra as principal cellist and programme coordinator. He also performed in the Finnish Baroque Orchestra, the early music group Barocco Boreale band, and the Kokkola Quartet. He was also a member of the Jones Band (violin-cello-harpsichord).
From 2014 to 2019 he was the artistic director of Hetta Music Days, the northernmost Finnish music festival!
** 1967 - in an Oxford Subscription Concert Jacqueline du Pre, with Stephen Bishop gave a recital
** 1967 - birth of Bion Yu-Ting Tsang (Lansing, Michigan, USA)
cellist, recitalist and soloist & teacher. Division Head of Strings and holds the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Chair in Cello at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin. A visiting professor at Indiana University in Bloomington.
** 1968 - first performance of Krzysztof Penderecki - Capriccio per Siegfried Palm for cello
soloist - Siegfried Palm (Bremen, Germany)
** 1985 – on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 7th of this month, cellist Lorne Munroe performed as invited soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Mehta), in the Avery Fisher Hall (New York)
