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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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    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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    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,...
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    Encore: More Music by Hermann Heberlein
    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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    Bel Canto Cello: Adrian Bradbury Plays Piatti's Opera Fantasies
    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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    Bel Canto Cellists in America: Gaetano Braga
    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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    Bel Canto Cello: Resignation and Rebellion in Verdi's I Masnadieri Preludio
    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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    Encore: More Music by Ernst Jonas
    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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    Boston Symphony Cellist-Composers: Carl Bayrhoffer
    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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    Boston Symphony Cellist-Composers: Herrman Heberlein
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Jul 10, 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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    Boston Symphony Cellist-Composers: August Suck
    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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    Boston Symphony Cellist-Composers: Ernst Jonas
    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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    Dedicated to Schroeder: Ashton's Phantasiestucke, Op. 12
    Geoffrey Dean
    • Jun 5, 2021
    • 3 min

    Dedicated to Schroeder: Ashton's Phantasiestucke, Op. 12

    London-based duo partners Evva Mizerska and Emma Abbate made a wonderful recording a few years back of cello music by the English...
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    Welcome to the Alwinac!
    Geoffrey Dean
    • May 29, 2021
    • 1 min

    Welcome to the Alwinac!

    Posts to the Alwinac blog will explore a rich array of Alwin Schroeder-related topics. Here you will find cello music that Alwin and...
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