Geoffrey Dean
19th Century Cellists in the US: George Knoop (1797-1849)
“If you would hear the very soul tell all its deepest, most inner feeling, if you would listen to language as from another world and from...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jan 31, 2022
- 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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Geoffrey Dean
- Jan 16, 2022
- 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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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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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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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,...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Oct 2, 2021
- 1 min
Encore: More Music by Hermann Heberlein
Listen to the first part of Heberlein's Concertstuck, Op. 8 Heberlein and other cellists performed this work in Detroit during the 1890s....
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Geoffrey Dean
- Sep 4, 2021
- 5 min
Bel Canto Cellists in America: Gaetano Braga
Listen to Souvenir d'Amerique The Italian composer and cellist Gaetano Braga (1829-1907), wrote his earliest musical works in his early...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Aug 14, 2021
- 1 min
Encore: More Music by Ernst Jonas
Back in June, I kicked off my series on Boston Symphony cellist-composers with a post on Ernst Jonas. Today I am excited to share another...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jul 31, 2021
- 7 min
Boston Symphony Cellist-Composers: Carl Bayrhoffer
Listen to Bayrhoffer's Wiegenlied Carl Bayrhoffer (1859-1926) was BSO first cellist for the latter part of the orchestra’s inaugural...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jul 9, 2021
- 7 min
Boston Symphony Cellist-Composers: Herrman Heberlein
Listen to Heberlein's Cavatine, Op. 26 A member of the Boston Symphony cello section from the fall of 1898 until 1909,/1/ Hermann...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jun 26, 2021
- 2 min
Boston Symphony Cellist-Composers: August Suck
Listen to Suck's Tarantella here Originally from Bremen, Germany, August Suck (“Sook”; March 16, 1837-Aug. 18, 1921)/1/ was a member of...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Jun 19, 2021
- 4 min
Boston Symphony Cellist-Composers: Ernst Jonas
Listen to Jonas's Nocturno, Op. 53, No. 1 Ernst [Ernest] Jonas (ca. 1845-1889)/1/ was a member of the BSO cello section from 1882 to...
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