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, 2022
- 10 min
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, 2022
- 6 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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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