Listen to Souvenir d'Amerique The Italian composer and cellist Gaetano Braga (1829-1907), wrote his earliest musical works in his early...

A central feature of Italian opera through the 19th century, the bel canto singing style also influenced cellists of the Italian school...

Back in June, I kicked off my series on Boston Symphony cellist-composers with a post on Ernst Jonas. Today I am excited to share another...

On Saturday, August 10, 2019, we drove into the northern Harz Mountain town of Ballenstedt, once the seat of the Duchy of Alhalt-Bernburg...

Two years ago to the day, I went on a weekend road-trip with my good friend from our IU-Bloomington days, Berlin-based composer Petros...

Listen to Bayrhoffer's Wiegenlied Carl Bayrhoffer (1859-1926) was BSO first cellist for the latter part of the orchestra’s inaugural...

It has been a wonderful couple of weeks here in Bloomington, Illinois, where after a virtual festival in 2020 the Illinois Chamber Music...

As we saw in Violoncello Voices, Part 1, the eloquent speech of male possessors of the violoncello voice is described in terms of...

Ever used "cello" as a verb? Harry Williams did in the 1921 song "Mello Cello," originally performed by the “Bronson and Baldwin”...

Listen to Heberlein's Cavatine, Op. 26 A member of the Boston Symphony cello section from the fall of 1898 until 1909,/1/ Hermann...

The multi-faceted expressiveness of the cello’s tone has often been likened to the human voice. The description of Alwin Schroeder in...

Listen to Suck's Tarantella here Originally from Bremen, Germany, August Suck (“Sook”; March 16, 1837-Aug. 18, 1921)/1/ was a member of...

At the end of a colorfully inaccurate cello-history sketch, a Detroit newspaper item from 1896 includes this instructive passage : This...

Listen to Jonas's Nocturno, Op. 53, No. 1 Ernst [Ernest] Jonas (ca. 1845-1889)/1/ was a member of the BSO cello section from 1882 to...

On June 15, 1855, Alwin Schroeder was born in Neuhaldensleben, Germany, into “an atmosphere intensely musical.” He followed his father...

Long before the appearance of the 170 Foundation Studies for Violoncello, Alwin Schroeder had established himself as both a scholar and...

London-based duo partners Evva Mizerska and Emma Abbate made a wonderful recording a few years back of cello music by the English...

Could this be the earliest use of the mellow cello rhyme? This poem appeared in the Nachez (Mississippi) Gazette on August 28, 1819: TO...

Posts to the Alwinac blog will explore a rich array of Alwin Schroeder-related topics. Here you will find cello music that Alwin and...