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    Summer Song: The Ashland (WI) Grand Opera House
    Geoffrey Dean
    • 8 hours ago
    • 4 min

    Summer Song: The Ashland (WI) Grand Opera House

    I discovered the Ashland Grand Opera House on a recent trip to the Chequamegon Bay area on the southern shores of Lake Superior. A city...
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    Carl Schroeder's Sondershausen: Travel Log, Part 3
    Geoffrey Dean
    • 6 days ago
    • 4 min

    Carl Schroeder's Sondershausen: Travel Log, Part 3

    Read Part 1 Read Part 2 Exactly three years ago, as Petros and I circled the central streets of Sondershausen in search of a free...
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    Signature Suites: My Latest Creative Obsession
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Jul 25
    • 4 min

    Signature Suites: My Latest Creative Obsession

    To those of you who know me as a sometime arranger of cello music, usually from original Bulgarian works for other instruments or...
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    That Fellow With the Cello: Mello-Cello Strikes Again
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Jun 18
    • 3 min

    That Fellow With the Cello: Mello-Cello Strikes Again

    I’m starting out this post to the somewhat unlikely soundtrack of “Mello Cello,” a meditative instrumental piece by Steven Halpern and...
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    Happy 167th Birthday, Alwin!
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Jun 15
    • 1 min

    Happy 167th Birthday, Alwin!

    In honor of Alwin Schroeder's 167th birthday, here are the Sarabande and Gigue from the Suite in E minor by Julius Klengel, his Leipzig...
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    Tale of Two Cellists: Alwin Schroeder and Julius Klengel
    Geoffrey Dean
    • May 28
    • 10 min

    Tale of Two Cellists: Alwin Schroeder and Julius Klengel

    Klengel dedicated his Op. 2 cello pieces to Schroeder. Listen to the opening Berceuse. During the 1880s, two outstanding cellists...
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    Violoncello Without a Master: Alwin the Auto-Didact
    Geoffrey Dean
    • May 15
    • 5 min

    Violoncello Without a Master: Alwin the Auto-Didact

    Alwin Schroeder’s status as a self-taught cellist gained widespread notoriety from at least as early as 1885. That year the Leipzig...
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    Have Cello, Will Travel: Alwin's Toothbrushes
    Geoffrey Dean
    • May 1
    • 6 min

    Have Cello, Will Travel: Alwin's Toothbrushes

    In the late 1890s, Alwin Schroeder and his family spent their summers in the Rangeley Lakes region of Maine. In her book The Islanders,...
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    Telo-melo Cello: Step-Child of Gasparo?
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Apr 10
    • 5 min

    Telo-melo Cello: Step-Child of Gasparo?

    My recent post on cello poetry brought to mind the writings of Robert Haven Schauffler, who studied cello with Alwin Schroeder at...
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    Alwin Schroeder's Bach Cello Suites Edition
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Mar 23
    • 7 min

    Alwin Schroeder's Bach Cello Suites Edition

    Alwin Schroeder's 1888 edition of the Bach Cello Suites is often overlooked in the literature on the suites. I believe it deserves...
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    Bulgarian Rhythms: Lyubomir Pipkov's Spring Caprices
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Mar 5
    • 2 min

    Bulgarian Rhythms: Lyubomir Pipkov's Spring Caprices

    Listen to Five Spring Caprices by Pipkov, arranged for cello and piano by G. Dean In Bulgaria, the month of March is named after Baba...
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    More Cello Verses: Sonnets and Songs
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Feb 5
    • 3 min

    More Cello Verses: Sonnets and Songs

    As on most days, today I was answering the ever-present question of “who WAS that cellist?” when my query results led me off in another...
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    19th Century Cellists in the US: Frederick Bergner
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Jan 31
    • 7 min

    19th Century Cellists in the US: Frederick Bergner

    Listen to my performance of Bergner's Reverie Best known as the first cellist of the New Philharmonic Society for 47 seasons, Frederick...
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    19th-century Cellists in the US: Theodore Ahrend
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Jan 16
    • 6 min

    19th-century Cellists in the US: Theodore Ahrend

    Born in Germany in 1829 or 1830, cellist Theodore Ahrend studied in Brussels, where he may have worked with Francois Servais./1/ In 1849...
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    The UNC Greensboro Cello Collections, in Four Haikus
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Jan 8
    • 2 min

    The UNC Greensboro Cello Collections, in Four Haikus

    Before the winter break I spent a few days among the Cello Collections at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Although I have...
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    US Cello Performances, 1891-2: An Annotated Timeline, Part 2
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Dec 4, 2021
    • 6 min

    US Cello Performances, 1891-2: An Annotated Timeline, Part 2

    See Part 1 here January 1892 9 Liederkrantz Hall, NY Anton Hekking among the solo performers on Liederkrantz 45th...
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    US Cello Performances, 1891-2 Season: An Annotated Timeline, part 1
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Nov 24, 2021
    • 5 min

    US Cello Performances, 1891-2 Season: An Annotated Timeline, part 1

    The 1891-2 season, Alwin Schroeder's first in the US, saw an extraordinary convergence of musical talent in this country, and the...
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    Hugo Becker's Love Scenes, Op. 7
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Nov 14, 2021
    • 1 min

    Hugo Becker's Love Scenes, Op. 7

    Liebesleben (Love Scenes), a "little suite" for cello and piano, was published in Liepzig by Max Brockhaus in 1894. I discovered it in...
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    Bel Canto Cellists: Cesare A. Casella pere et fils
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Oct 30, 2021
    • 6 min

    Bel Canto Cellists: Cesare A. Casella pere et fils

    Listen to my performance of Chanson Napolitaine by C. A. Casella fils A second-generation member of an Italian cello-playing family,...
    39 views1 comment
    "Soak 'em": Thomas Edison's Advice To A Cellist
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Oct 23, 2021
    • 1 min

    "Soak 'em": Thomas Edison's Advice To A Cellist

    The following anecdote in an item from the Lewisburg (PA) Chronicle (Oct. 15, 1891, p. 3) concerns an Edison engineer who was also a fine...
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