Historical Events of May 5
5 May
** 1881 – Richard Strauss completed the first draft of the third movement to his Cello Sonata (to become his Opus 6) – the music was later completely revised.
** 1891 – in Prague, David Popper's father dies
** 1921 - The Oxford Subscription Concerts organized a Cello and Piano Recital with Guilhermina Suggia and Adolph Mann.
** 1924 – in a Vienna Gala concert dedicated to the 60th birthday of Richard Strauss, Friedrich Buxbaum performed Strauss – Cello Sonata in F Major, Op.6, with the composer on piano.
Konzerthaus Vienna, Mittlerer Saal, Vienna
** 1966 - first performance of Iannis Xenakis - ‘Nomos alpha’ for cello solo
soloist - Siegfried Palm (Bremen, Germany)
** 1973 - first performance of Sofia Gubaidulina - Detto II for cello and chamber ensemble
(Moscow)
** 1992 – on the 30th April, and 1st and 5th May, cellist Lorne Munroe performed as invited soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Masur), in the Avery Fisher Hall (New York)
** 1993 - first performance of Benet Casablancas I Domingo - Cant per a Federico Mompou: remembrance, for cello and piano
Lito Iglesias/cello and Eugènia Gasull/piano (Auditorio Eduardo Toldrá, Conservatorio Superior de Música, Barcelona)
** 1994 – cellist Morten Zeuthen gave the premiere at Symfonien, Aalborg, Denmark, of Kim Helweg’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No.1 (written 1992), with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra
