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Gregor Piatigorsky
Gregor Piatigorsky , 1903-76, Ukrainian-American cellist. Piatigorsky studied with his father and at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1924 he became first cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic, leaving in 1928 to perform solo. He moved (1929) to the United States, where he taught and performed with enormous... Read more
Emanuel Feuermann
Emanuel Feuermann , 1902-42, Austrian-born virtuoso cellist. He appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 11 and later (1917-23) taught at the Cologne Conservatory. From 1929 until 1933, when he fled to Switzerland, he taught at the Berlin Hochschule. His concerts in Europe and t... Read more
Sir John Barbirolli
Sir John Barbirolli , 1899-1970, English conductor and cellist, b. London. After being cellist (1920-24) in the International String Quartet, he organized the Barbirolli String Orchestra. Barbirolli held positions as conductor of the British National Opera Company (1926), the Covent Garden Opera Com... Read more
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini , 1743-1805, Italian composer and cellist. Together with the violinist Filippo Manfredi he made a highly successful concert tour of Italy and France. After 1769 he was a composer and cellist in Spanish courts. He also served as composer to Frederick William II of Prussia (1787-97) a... Read more
Victor Herbert
Victor Herbert 1859-1924, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, studied at the Stuttgart Conservatory. In 1886 the Metropolitan Opera Company engaged his wife, Therese Herbert-Föster, as a singer and Herbert as first cellist, and together they immigrated to the United States. From 1... Read more
Adolf Busch
Adolf Busch , 1891-1952, German-Swiss violinist. He studied at the Cologne Conservatory. From 1919 to 1935 he headed outstanding chamber music groups, including the Busch Quartet, one of the greatest of the early 20th cent., and with his brother Hermann Busch, cellist, and his son-in-law Rudolf Ser... Read more
Frederick William II
Frederick William II 1744-97, king of Prussia (1786-97), nephew and successor of Frederick II (Frederick the Great). He had the power but lacked the ability of his distinguished predecessors. He joined the European coalition in support of Louis XVI and fought in the early campaigns of the French ... Read more
Pablo (Pau) Casals
Pablo (Pau) Casals , 1876-1973, Spanish virtuoso cellist and conductor. Casals is considered the greatest 20th-century master of the cello and a distinguished composer, conductor, and pianist. A prodigy, he began his concert career in 1891. In 1905 he formed a chamber trio with Jacques Thibaud (1880... Read more
Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma , 1955-, American cellist, b. Paris. The son of musicologist Hiao-Tsun Ma, who left China in the 1930s, he was a musical prodigy, giving a public recital in Paris at the age of six. In 1963 he and his family settled in New York City, where he began attending the Julliard School of Music at ... Read more
Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923, British author, b. New Zealand, regarded as one of the masters of the short story. Her original name was Kathleen Beauchamp. A talented cellist, she did not turn to literature until 1908. Her first volume of short stories, In a German Pension (1911), was not remarka... Read more

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Yo-Yo Ma
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...respected as one of the greatest cellists of the twentieth century...he ranked among the finest cellists of the twentieth century...Stern referred the family to cellist Leonard Rose of the prestigious...master class under the eminent cellist, Rostropovich. The master...
Pablo Casals
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...totalitarian Francisco Franco regime in Spain, cellist Pablo Casals (1876-1973) refused in...Thomas Mann, quoted by Bernard Taper in Cellist in Exile: A Portrait of Pablo Casals...instrument of high purpose," Taper noted in Cellist in Exile. Among those impressed by the...
Herbert, Victor
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...Victor (1859–1924), New York composer, cellist, and conductor, was born in Ireland and had a career in Germany before he came to New York (1886) to be first cellist of the Metropolitan Opera. He later wrote two grand operas...
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...pianist and composer, he achieved international renown as a cellist and conductor. Mstislav Rostropovich was born in Baku, the...The family was musical, his father being a professional cellist, his mother an accomplished pianist, and his sister a violinist...
Pablo (Pau) Casals
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Pablo (Pau) Casals , 1876-1973, Spanish virtuoso cellist and conductor. Casals is considered the greatest 20th...1961), and conducted a celebrated concert of some 80 cellists at Lincoln Center (1972). Bibliography: See his memoirs...
Luigi Boccherini
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Luigi Boccherini , 1743-1805, Italian composer and cellist. Together with the violinist Filippo Manfredi he made...of Italy and France. After 1769 he was a composer and cellist in Spanish courts. He also served as composer to Frederick...
Sir John Barbirolli
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Sir John Barbirolli , 1899-1970, English conductor and cellist, b. London. After being cellist (1920-24) in the International String Quartet, he organized the Barbirolli String Orchestra. Barbirolli held positions as conductor of the...
Henri Sauguet
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...an underground grotto; Melodie concertante (1964), written for the famous cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, tried to recapture the vision of a young female cellist whose expressive interpretation of Debussy's music touched the composer in his...
Victor Herbert
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Victor Herbert 1859-1924, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, studied at the Stuttgart Conservatory...Herbert-Föster, as a singer and Herbert as first cellist, and together they immigrated to the United States. From...
Isaac Stern
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...noteworthy Isaac Stern students include violinist Itzhak Perlman, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and Pinchas Zukerman. Isaac Stern was born on...to Israel. Stern played the Prades Festival with premiere cellist Pablo Casals from 1950 through 1952. In 1956, he became the...

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Tortelier, Paul
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...d Villarçeaux, 1990). Fr. cellist, conductor, and composer. Studied Paris...Monte Carlo Orch. 1935–7; 3rd cellist, Boston SO 1937–40; prin. cellist Société des Concerts du...
Ma, Yo-Yo
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...Classical One of the great cellists of the twentieth century...1976, he became a full-time cellist, winning the prestigious Avery...played, Machover studied the cellist's subtle movements to understand...s celebrity as a concert cellist helps make his musical excursions...
Rostropovich, Mstislav (Leopoldovich)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...b Baku, 1927). Russ. cellist, pianist, and conductor...from 1961. One of great cellists of his day, for whom Prokofiev...Amer. début as cellist, NY 1956. Début...Salzburg Fest. début (cellist) 1969 (Orch. de Paris...
Wihan, Hanuš
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Wihan, Hanuš ( b Politz, 1855; d Prague, 1920). Bohem. cellist. Played in several Eur. orchs. Prin. cellist Munich court orch. from 1880 and cellist in King Ludwig's qt., which played at Wagner's Bayreuth home. Prof...
Popper, David
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Prague, 1843; d Baden, Vienna, 1913). Bohem. cellist, pupil of Goltermann at Prague Cons. Played in...from 1863 rose to leading position among world's cellists. Prin. cellist, Vienna Opera 1868–73. Member of Hubay...
Starker, János
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...nos ( b Budapest, 1924). Hung.-born cellist (Amer. cit. 1954). Début age of 11. Prin. cellist Budapest Opera and PO, 1945–6. Settled in USA 1948. Prin. cellist Dallas SO 1948–9, NY Met opera...
Herbert, Victor
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...d NY, 1924). Irish-born composer, conductor, and cellist (Amer. cit.). Prin. cellist Stuttgart court orch. 1883–6. Went to USA 1886, becoming prin. cellist NY Met orch., and in other orchs. Also appeared as soloist...
Wallenstein, Alfred
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...b Chicago, 1898; d NY, 1983). Amer. cellist and conductor. Début as cellist, Los Angeles 1912. Later played in S. Francisco...x2013;17 and Los Angeles PO. Prin. cellist, Chicago SO 1922–9, NYPO 1929...
Piatti, Alfredo (Carlo)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Crocetta di Mozzo, nr. Bergamo, 1901). It. cellist and composer. Début Milan 1837...x2013;98. Lived in London from 1846 and was cellist in Joachim Qt. Piatti prize for cellists at RAM is in his memory. Wrote 2 vc. concs...
Barbirolli, (Sir) John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...of It.-Fr. parentage. First public appearance as solo cellist, London 1911. Member of Queen's Hall Orch. 1916. Served in army 1918. After war, free-lance cellist and member of str. qt. Formed own str. orch. to conduct, 1924...

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Cellists honor a legend
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/1/1991; ; 613 words ; ...memorial concert for cellist, teacher and exemplar...events of the season: 18 cellists from all over the world...as well as principal cellist of the Baltimore Symphony...Boston, he was the cellist of a string quartet...participating Boston cellists will include Rhonda...
Cellists' challenge
Newspaper article from: The Press; 7/19/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...record number of young cellists travelling from around...distinguished American cellist Leslie Parnas, and...orchestra's principal cellist. He studied with Pablo...Competition. His career as a cellist has seen him perform...Britain's leading cellists. Today, he is a frequent...
Best cellists take a bow in national competition
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/15/1986; ; 700+ words ; ...practically everyone was a cellist. It was one of the informal...After a few drinks, are 40 cellists significantly different than...which meant that I heard seven cellists between the ages of 18 and...all men and none of them cellists. The idea was that cellists...
So You Want To Be A Cellist?
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/5/1992; ; 700+ words ; SO, YOU WANT to be a cellist? It does not surprise me. Even those...where Bond and his heroine, a concert cellist, escape the bad guys by "bobsledding...dined there alone. Another legendary cellist/humanist, Mstislav Rostropovich...
Cellist Rostropovich died free of oppression.(Time Out!)(Classical music)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 5/4/2007; 700+ words ; ...Musical Toast in honor of the cellist-conductor. Once the Soviet...was regarded as the finest cellist of the 20th century following...pianist Vladimir Horowitz. Cellists, myself included, are enormously...commissioned, said fellow cellist Yo-Yo Ma last weekend. He...
A cellist called Gauche.(Society)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 8/1/2003; 700+ words ; ...MANALOTO Once upon a time, there was a cellist named Gauche who played with the Venus...group. After the practice, the poor cellist went home feeling down and dejected An...at 3 and 7 p.m., when Gauche the cellist performs before an enthusiastic audience...
Profile: Life, music and art collection of cellist Gregor Piatigorsky
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 4/29/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Profile: Life, music and art collection of cellist Gregor Piatigorsky Host: BOB EDWARDS...interview) Mr. GREGOR PIATIGORSKY (Cellist): Nobody can really choose music as...was seven. By age 16 he was principal cellist for the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra and...
Cellist Ross takes spotlight with Dvorak; The Minnesota Orchestra principal will be featured in a solo performance with the ensemble this weekend.(VARIETY
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 10/8/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...bronze medal, 1982. Principal cellist, Rochester (N.Y.) Philharmonic...1987-present, principal cellist since 1991. Also guest soloist...Wife Beth Rapier, also a cellist with the Minnesota Orchestra...saying this, but as a group, cellists are much more easygoing...
A cellist plays his version of deadly Sarajevo roulette; A young B.C. novelist ponders the use of civilizing art and beauty in the middle of a choice act of bestiality, the siege of Sarajevo.(Books)
Newspaper article from: The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario); 5/25/2008; 700+ words ; ...horror of war are also contrasted in The Cellist of Sarajevo, B.C. writer Steven Galloway...two particular facts There really was a cellist who played Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor...whose lives are touched in some way by the cellist's act of defiance. Arrow feels she...
Playing along with change 'Emotional instructions' key as composer, cellist collaborate for revisions to 'Azul'.(Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 1/12/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...if the composer is dead. That, says cellist Alisa Weilerstein, made things interesting...to the original. Needless to say, the cellist faced some pretty frantic practice time...newer version is far more satisfying, the cellist said. Fortunately, a friendship was...