DIRECTORY / LIBRARY OF FAMOUS HISTORICAL CELLISTS Volume I (up to 1789)
DIRECTORIO / BIBLIOTECA DE VIOLONCELLISTAS HISTORICOS FAMOSOS Volumen I (hasta 1789)
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PRESENTATION: Throughout history a number of interesting books have been published on the Cello – its origins, the performers, the makers/luthiers, and the repertoire. However, when reference is made to cellists they are almost always classified and organized according to national music ‘schools’. There has always been a necessity to see a real list of those contemporary cellists in each era in chronological form, with details of professional positions or activities, and this is exactly what johnstone-music offers with this unique presentation.
IMPORTANT PRELIMINARY NOTE: Many people will probably simply browse with curiosity through this wonderful list of cellists who had such important careers in their time. However, it’s always a good idea to be able to do an easy search for a particular cellist that interests you! All individual inclusions of this library of cellists are in chronological order, following the order of the year of death. Why this method, and not by the more commonly used birth-year as a guide? Well, some cellists were child prodigies and already famous in their teens, whilst others took several decades before establishing themselves. Some enjoyed a very long life, such as Pau Casals, and were very active after reaching 65 years old – others unfortunately did not even reach 65 years old (or a few even to barely half this number).
That is to say that sometimes cellists of a same birth year often did not coincide musically at all. Therefore this present system is probably a much more accurate guide of their real working periods and their musical influences.
The chances are that you will probably not know exactly where to find the cellist you are searching for, though you probably know his/her musical period.
Therefore, each volume gives all names with life-spans of a particular period at the beginning in alphabetical order, and from this you will be easily able to ascertain the relevant years for a more detailed entry. If the cellist that you are looking for is not where you imagine it to be, then try the previous or following period/volume. Enjoy!
The order of text information is as follows: it should be obvious to follow!
Name : Dates : Country: Positions: Premieres given-Dedications received: Music/Publications: Friendships: Anecdotes: johnstone-music article (if applicable)
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PRESENTACIÓN: A lo largo de la historia se han publicado un número de libros interesantes sobre el violoncello – sus orígenes, los intérpretes, sus lutieres y su repertorio. Sin embargo, cuando se hace referencia a los violoncellistas, están casi siempre clasificados y organizados según las ‘escuelas nacionales’ de violoncello. Siempre ha existido una necesidad de ver una lista real de los cellistas contemporáneos en cada época de forma cronológica (con sus respectivas posiciones o actividades), y esto es exactamente lo que johnstone-music ofrece con este trabajo único.
NOTA IMPORTANTE PRELIMINARIA:
Probablemente mucha gente va a ojear con cierta curiosidad esta lista maravillosa de violoncellistas quienes tuvieron unas carreras tan importantes en su tiempo. Sin embargo, es una buena idea poder hacer una búsqueda fácil para un violoncellista en particular que te interesa. Todas las inclusiones individuales de esta biblioteca cellística están en orden cronológico,siguiendo el año de fallecimiento del cellista. ¿Y por qué este método, y no el sistema más común del año de nacimiento? Pues, algunos violoncellistas fueron prodigios y ya celebres casi de adolescentes, mientras que otros necesitaban varias décadas antes de establecer sus nombres. Algunos disfrutaron de una vida muy larga, como Pau Casals, y fueron muy activos después de cumplir 65 años – otros no llegaban desgraciadamente ni a los 65 años de edad (algunos incluso apenas a la mitad de este número).
Con todo esto queremos decir que algunas veces violoncellistas nacidos en el mismo año no coincidieron musicalmente para nada. Por tanto, este sistema utilizado es probablemente una guía mucho más fiel de sus periodos reales de trabajo y de sus influencias musicales.
Probablemente no vas a saber exactamente dónde encontrar el violoncellista que buscas, aunque tal vez sabrás de su época musical.
Así que el índice en cada volumen da todos los nombres (y fechas) al principio en orden alfabético, y de esto puedes averiguar fácilmente los años relevantes e ir a su entrada más detallada. Si el/la violoncellista que estás buscando no está donde lo imaginas, prueba el periodo/volumen anterior o posterior ¡Disfrútalo! El orden de información en los textos es el siguiente: ¡debería ser fácil de seguir!
Nombre: Fechas: País: Posiciones: Estrenos efectuados - Dedicatorias recibidas: Música/Publicaciones: Amistades: Anécdotas: artículo en johnstone-music (si hubiera) johnstone-music
VOLUME I Cellists with year of death in period up to 1788
VOLUMEN I Violoncellistas con año de fallecimiento hasta 1788
CELLISTS:
Dall’ABACCO, (Evaristo) Felice (1675 – 1742) ABEL, Christian Ferdinand (1682 – 1761) ALBOREA, Francesco (1691 – 1739) AMADEO, Filippo (1665 – c. 1725) ANTONIOTTI, Giorgio (1682 – 1776) BARRIERE, Jean-Baptiste (1707 – 1747) BAUMGARTEN, Johann Baptist (1723 – 1782) BERNHARD, Christian (1673 – 1751) BERTEAU, Martin (1700 – 1771) BLAINVILLE, Charles Henri (1711 – 1769) BONONCINI Giovanni Maria (1642 - 1678) CALDARA, Antonio (1670 – 1736) CANAVASSO, Giovanni Battista (1713 – 1784) CAPORALE, Andrea (1700 – 1746) CERVETTO, Giacomo B. (1682 – 1783) COSTANZI, Giovanni Battista (1704 – 1778) DALL’OGLIO, Guiseppe (c.1700 – 1771) EYSEL, Johann Philipp (1698 – 1763) DE FESCH, Wilhelm (1687 – c.1757) FILTZ, Anton (1730 – 1760) FIORE, Angelo Marie (c.1660 – 1723) GABRIELLI, Domenico (1651 – 1690) GALLI, Domenico (1650 - 1697) GASPARINI, Quirino (???? – 1770) GIRAUD, François Joseph (???? – c. 1788) GRAZIANI, Carlo (1725 – 1787)
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HEBDEN, John (1712 – 1765) HEXTEL, Johann Christian (1699 – 1754) HIMMELBAUER, Wenzel (1725 - 1764) JACCHINI, Giuseppe (c. 1663 – 1727) LANZETTI, Salvatore (c.1710 – 1780) LEO, Leonardo de (1694 – 1744) LITERES CARRION, Antonio Literes (1673 – 1747) MARA, Ignace (c.1721 – 1783) PASQUALINI, Marc’Antonio (1614 – 1691) PAXTON, William (1737 – 1781) PERRONI, Giovanni (1688 – 1748) PORRETTI, Domenico (1720 – 1783) SCHETKY, Johann Georg (1740 – 1778) STRUCK (or STUCK) (1682 – 1755) TRIEMER, Johann Sebald (c.1700 – 1762) VANDINI, Antonio (Lotavio) (1690 – 1778) VITALI, Giovanni Battista (1632 — 1692) WERNER, ?. (???? (early 18th c.) – 1768)
Incomplete dates :
ABIOSTI, Attilio (1660 - ????) BELLA, Domenica della (???? - ????) BIEDAL, ?. (???? - ????) GALEOTTI, Stefano (or Salvatore) (c. 1700 - ????) GRAUL, Markus Heinrich (???? {1st half 18th C.} - ????) JOANNINI di Violoncello (???? - ????) PARASISI, ?. (???? - ????)
Curiosities: DUKE of East and PRINCE of Modena (1660 – 1694) – aristocrat DUKE of Maddaloni - Domenico Marzio Caraffa (early to mid 18th century) – aristocrat EMPEROR (CZAR) PETER II Aleksejevitsj OF RUSSIA (1715 - 1730) – royalty/emperor FACCO, Giacomo (1676 – 1753) – composer and performing musiciam FREDERICK, Prince of Wales (1707 – 1751) – royalty GUIGNON, JEAN PIERRE (1702 – 1775) – violinist, abandoned cellist
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Giovanni Maria Bononcini ‘Buononcini’ 1642 – 1678 Italy (later Austria) Cellist Imperial Kapelle (Vienna). Later involved in Operatic productions in Vienna. Anecdotes: * Pupil of father, then Colonna (Bologna).
Domenico Gabrielli ‘Dominic of the Cello’ 1651 – 1690 Italy Member Orchestra of the Church of San Petronio (Bologna), Accademia Filarmonica of Bolgna (member, later president). Court of Duke Francesco II d’Este of Modena.. Music/Publications: Own original works for cello
Marc’Antonio Pasqualini 1614 – 1691 Italy (later Britain) Music/Publications: Own original compositions Anecdotes: * Valued as a concert artist of repute around 1645
Giovanni Battista Vitali 1632 — 1692 Italy Founding member in the Academia Filarmonica of Bologna, Chapel San Petronio (Bologna) Anecdotes: * Cellist, violinist and composer, father to violinist Tomaso Antonio Vitali..
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Domenico Galli 1650 - 1697 Italy Music/Publications: Own original pieces, including solo unaccompanied 12 sonatas (with unusual string tuning Bb, F, C, G) which were probably inspired by his association with Gabrielli.
Angelo Marie Fiore c.1660 – 1723 Italy Member Church Orchestra ‘Madonna della Steccata’. Cellist and composer at the Parma court. Music/Publications: Own original works
Filippo Amadeo ‘Sigr Pippo’ or ‘Pippo del Violoncello’ 1665 – c. 1725 Italy (later Britain) Member Orchestra of Cardinal Ottoboni. Accademia di Santo Cecilia. Later worked with Handel and Bonocini in London. Anecdotes: * Glowing contemporary reports as to his playing * in London he was Principal cello of the Royal Academy of Music Opera Orchestra (N.B. not the conservatoire, but an association of noblemen, supported by the king, founded in 1719 for the promotion of Italian opera).
Giuseppe Jacchini c. 1663 - 1727 Italy Member orchestra at the Church of San Petronio in Bologna. Member Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna. Music/Publications: Own original works for cello – chamber music published 1701. Perhaps he wrote first known cello concerto in existence ?
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Antonio Caldara 1670 – 1736 Italy Maestro di cappella, Mantua. Patronage from Charles VI of Austria (pretender to Spanish throne). Music/Publications: Own original works.
Francesco Alborea ‘Francischello’ 1691 – 1739 Italy (later Austria) Imperial chamber musician, Vienna. Anecdotes: * Naples cellist. an early cello virtuoso at a time when many still favored the Gamba. His extraordinary performances led to the viola de gamba almost entirely disappearing from Italian orchestras by 1730. * A direct influence on the young French school – Barrière, Berteau, Duport (senior) etc.
(Evaristo) Felice dall’Abacco 1675 – 1742 Italy (later Germany and Holland) Music/Publications: Own original pieces (for cello, including one withdate of 1748) Anecdotes: * Cellist from Verona.
Leonardo de Leo 1694 – 1744 Italy Composer, cellist, organist of the Neapolitan school. Music/Publications: Own original works include 6 cello concertos (along with those Jacchini the oldest concertos in existence !)
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Andrea Caporale 1700 - 1746 Italy Worked under Handel in London (invited by Porpora). Dedication: Handel – composed for him the cello solo in opera ‘Deidamia’ (3rd Act). Music/Publications: Own original compositions, including 6 cello sonatas and 18 solos . Anecdotes: * probably born in Naples. * Came to London in 1735. Was very successful there, on occasions rivalling Cervetto (the son). INFORMATION BY CARLOS FRUTUOSO
Antonio Literes Carrión 1673 – 1747 Spain Service of Spanish court. Music/Publications: own original works, including Spanish zarzuelas (light operas) Anecdotes: * Majorcan violinist and cellist, though known as bass violist.
Jean-Baptiste Barrière 1707 (1705?) – 1747 France Member Academie Royale de Musique (Opera). Patronage by King Louis XV Music/Publications: Many own original works Anecdotes: * one of the co-founders of the ‘French’ school of cello playing.
Giovanni Perroni 1688 – 1748 Italy Service Parma ducal court. Milan – Court orchestra (‘maestro di cappella’) at St. Maria delle Grazie. Music/Publications: Own original works
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Christian Bernhard 1673 – 1751 Germany Cellist and court musician, Berlin. Service of Chapel Margrave Christian, Cöthen.
Johann Christian Hextel 1699 – 1754 Germany Service of Eisenach Kapelle. Concert Director at Eisenach. Concert Director at the Court of Strelitz. Music/Publications: many own original compositions, but only 6 violin sonatas were published. Anecdotes: * pupil of Hesse.
B. Struck (or Stuck) 1682 – 1755 Italy (of a German family) (later lived Germany, France) Service of the Countess of Lemos in Naples. Paris in the service of the Duke of Orléans. Member Paris Opera Orchestra. “Musicien ordinaire” of the Royal Chapel Patronage by Louis XIV. Music/Publications: commissioned by Louis XIV, to produce theatrical compositions (wrote a long list of ballets and operas specially for Court festivities. Little or no compositions for cello. Anecdotes: * Important for helping implant the Italian school in France.
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