Geoffrey Dean
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 9, 2021
- 3 min
Schroeder Student Spotlight: Hugo Schlemueller
One of Alwin Schroeder’s students at the Leipzig Conservatory was Hugo Schlemueller (1872-1918), the son of a Leipzig music critic. There...
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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 25, 2021
- 4 min
Sounds of Bulgaria: The Music of Lazar Nikolov
It was a world beyond anything I had yet experienced or imagined. When I recall it, the sounds come back to me first. I hear the...
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Geoffrey Dean
- Sep 11, 2021
- 2 min
Bel Canto Cello: Adrian Bradbury Plays Piatti's Opera Fantasies
Bradbury and Davies perform Piatti's Fantasy on Bellini's La Sonnambula British cellist Adrian Bradbury’s 2020 2-CD release of Alfredo...
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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 28, 2021
- 3 min
Bel Canto Cello: Resignation and Rebellion in Verdi's I Masnadieri Preludio
A central feature of Italian opera through the 19th century, the bel canto singing style also influenced cellists of the Italian school...
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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 23, 2021
- 2 min
Humoresque: 2021 Illinois Chamber Music Festival
It has been a wonderful couple of weeks here in Bloomington, Illinois, where after a virtual festival in 2020 the Illinois Chamber Music...
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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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