Odnoposoff, Adolfo
Odnoposoff, Adolfo
Odnoposoff, Adolfo, Argentine cellist and teacher, brother of Ricardo Odnoposoff; b. Buenos Aires, Feb. 22, 1917; d. Denton, Tex., March 13, 1992. He studied with Alberto Schiuma, then went to Berlin, where he took lessons with Feuermann, and to Paris, where he became a student of Diran Alexanian. He was subsequently active as a concert cellist in Palestine (1936–38), Peru (1938–40), Chile (1940–44), Havana (1944–58), and Mexico City, where he also taught at the Cons. Nacional de Música (1958–64); then was a prof. of cello and chamber music at the Cons, of Music in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1975 he became a prof. of cello at North Tex. State Univ. in Denton. Several Latin American composers (Roque Corderò, Rodolfo Halffter, Eduardo Mata, Fioro Ugarte, Antonio Tauriello, and others) wrote special works for him.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire