Geoffrey Dean
19th Century Cellists in the US: George Knoop (1797-1849)
“If you would hear the very soul tell all its deepest, most inner feeling, if you would listen to language as from another world and from...
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Geoffrey Dean
May 28, 202210 min read
Tale of Two Cellists: Alwin Schroeder and Julius Klengel
Klengel dedicated his Op. 2 cello pieces to Schroeder. Listen to the opening Berceuse. During the 1880s, two outstanding cellists...
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Geoffrey Dean
May 1, 20226 min read
Have Cello, Will Travel: Alwin's Toothbrushes
In the late 1890s, Alwin Schroeder and his family spent their summers in the Rangeley Lakes region of Maine. In her book The Islanders,...
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Geoffrey Dean
Apr 10, 20225 min read
Telo-melo Cello: Step-Child of Gasparo?
My recent post on cello poetry brought to mind the writings of Robert Haven Schauffler, who studied cello with Alwin Schroeder at...
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Geoffrey Dean
Feb 5, 20223 min read
More Cello Verses: Sonnets and Songs
As on most days, today I was answering the ever-present question of “who WAS that cellist?” when my query results led me off in another...
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Geoffrey Dean
Oct 23, 20211 min read
"Soak 'em": Thomas Edison's Advice To A Cellist
The following anecdote in an item from the Lewisburg (PA) Chronicle (Oct. 15, 1891, p. 3) concerns an Edison engineer who was also a fine...
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Geoffrey Dean
Oct 16, 20211 min read
"Sing, Cello Sing": Jane M. Mattingly's "The Cello"
In the early 1920s the Willis Music Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, published A Happy Journey for Little Fingers, a set of six Practical...
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Geoffrey Dean
Jul 20, 20214 min read
Violoncello Voices, Part 2: From Eliot to Woolf
As we saw in Violoncello Voices, Part 1, the eloquent speech of male possessors of the violoncello voice is described in terms of...
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Geoffrey Dean
Jul 15, 20211 min read
For Christa's Birthday: "Cello a mellow refrain"
Ever used "cello" as a verb? Harry Williams did in the 1921 song "Mello Cello," originally performed by the “Bronson and Baldwin”...
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Geoffrey Dean
Jun 30, 20214 min read
Violoncello Voices, Part 1: Briand, Byran, Gielgud
The multi-faceted expressiveness of the cello’s tone has often been likened to the human voice. The description of Alwin Schroeder in...
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Geoffrey Dean
Jun 23, 20213 min read
Not So “Bass-ic”: Saying “violoncello”
At the end of a colorfully inaccurate cello-history sketch, a Detroit newspaper item from 1896 includes this instructive passage : This...
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Geoffrey Dean
Jun 3, 20211 min read
Mellow Cello on the Mississippi: An 1819 Poem
Could this be the earliest use of the mellow cello rhyme? This poem appeared in the Nachez (Mississippi) Gazette on August 28, 1819: TO...
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Geoffrey Dean
May 29, 20211 min read
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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