The Violoncello and Its History

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In other respects, Mersennus gives no more explicit directions for the handling of the Viola da Gamba than Prätorius. He does not use this name for the instrument in question, b...

From that time Funk led a vagabond life. He next betook himself to Schleitz, and remained three months at the Court there. Thence he was obliged to decamp as he was rigorously p...

In Leopold Mozart’s violin tutor is found the following description of it: “This instrument has from six to seven strings like the gamba. The neck is very broad and the back par...

[44] In the preface to the violoncello tutor already mentioned, by Corrette, the untenable assertion is made that the violoncello was discovered by Bonocin (Buononcini), “presén...

We are somewhat better informed regarding the violoncellist CAPORALE. Neither the place of his home nor the year of his birth nor that of his death are, indeed, known to us, but...

Boccherini composed six concerti specially for the violoncello. There are also extant several cello sonatas with bass by him. It is surprising that there is no mention made of t...

In Berlin the violoncello first came to be appreciated at its due value through Frederick William II. It is true it had been already well represented under Frederick the Great,...

Amongst the first noteworthy French violoncellists the brothers ABBÉ must be mentioned. They were music masters of the parish church of Agen under their own names of Philipp Pie...

LOUIS PIERRE MARTIN NORBLIN was the son of the French painter, Norblin de la Gourdaine, of some repute in his time, who, in 1772, selected Warsaw as his permanent residence and...

Later he was sent to Milan for the benefit of the Conservatoire. Here the excellent violoncellist, Merighi, conducted his further education. Piatti attended the above-named Inst...

FRIEDRICH AUGUST KUMMER was born on August 15, 1797, at Meiningen. His father, an accomplished oboist, belonged to the Ducal band there. At the beginning of the century he enter...

RICHARD BELLMANN, born on June 8, 1844, at Freiburg, in the kingdom of Saxony, at first benefited by the instruction of F. A. Kummer, and then went through a course under Grützm...

About the same time as Anton Kraft, Friedrich’s grandfather, JOSEPH LINKE, the violoncellist already mentioned, was at work in Vienna for some years as a distinguished quartet p...

The fourth of the above-mentioned pupils of Ganz, MAGNUS KLIETZ, born on April 29, 1828, at Altenkirchen, on the Island of Rügen, began his musical career at fourteen as a pupil...

AUGUST CHRISTIAN PRELL, under Romberg’s direction, whose last pupil he was, reached a high degree of art. An extremely beautiful and grand style of playing lent his performance...

At the present time the best French cellists are: JULES DELSART, RABAUD (both teachers at the Paris Conservatoire), LIÈGEOIS, LOEB, and BECKER. Information regarding them is lac...

Until then Franco-Mendès was undecided as to whether he should pursue music for his pleasure or as his career. He soon decided for the latter, and undertook with his brother Jos...

THOMAS POWELL, born in 1776, in London, early devoted himself to music, and studied, besides Violoncello playing, the piano and the harp. In 1805 he appeared with success in his...

Among the younger Bohemian cellists, WLADISLAW ALOIS is distinguished, who was born June 15, 1860, at Prague, and received his artistic education at the Conservatoire there. At...

CORRETTE, MICHEL.--Méthode, théorique et pratique, pour apprendre en peu de temps le Violoncelle dans sa perfection. Ensemble des Principes de Musique avec des Leçons à I. et II...

Paque, Guillaume 180 Parasisi 53 Pasqualini 55 Paxton, William 190 Petersen, Albert 134 Pezze, Alessandro 112 Piarelli 63 Piatti, Alfredo 110 Pini 112 Platel, Nicolas Joseph 101...