Geoffrey Dean
Boston Symphony First Cellists: New Random Facts
During a recent visit to the Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives, I came across documentation of some interesting facts related to the...
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Geoffrey Dean
Sep 5, 20227 min read
Schroeder Student Spotlight: Ernest Lachmund (1865-1954)
Among the Oscar Cobb opera houses highlighted in my previous post was one that existed briefly in Duluth, Minnesota. In a surprise...
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Geoffrey Dean
Jun 15, 20221 min read
Happy 167th Birthday, Alwin!
In honor of Alwin Schroeder's 167th birthday, here are the Sarabande and Gigue from the Suite in E minor by Julius Klengel, his Leipzig...
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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 15, 20225 min read
Violoncello Without a Master: Alwin the Auto-Didact
Alwin Schroeder’s status as a self-taught cellist gained widespread notoriety from at least as early as 1885. That year the Leipzig...
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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
Mar 23, 20227 min read
Alwin Schroeder's Bach Cello Suites Edition
Alwin Schroeder's 1888 edition of the Bach Cello Suites is often overlooked in the literature on the suites. I believe it deserves...
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Geoffrey Dean
Dec 4, 20216 min read
US Cello Performances, 1891-2: An Annotated Timeline, Part 2
See Part 1 here January 1892 9 Liederkrantz Hall, NY Anton Hekking among the solo performers on Liederkrantz 45th...
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Geoffrey Dean
Nov 24, 20215 min read
US Cello Performances, 1891-2 Season: An Annotated Timeline, part 1
The 1891-2 season, Alwin Schroeder's first in the US, saw an extraordinary convergence of musical talent in this country, and the...
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Geoffrey Dean
Oct 9, 20213 min read
Schroeder Student Spotlight: Hugo Schlemueller
One of Alwin Schroeder’s students at the Leipzig Conservatory was Hugo Schlemueller (1872-1918), the son of a Leipzig music critic. There...
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Geoffrey Dean
Aug 10, 20214 min read
The Schroeder Brothers at Ballenstedt: Travel Log, Part 2
On Saturday, August 10, 2019, we drove into the northern Harz Mountain town of Ballenstedt, once the seat of the Duchy of Alhalt-Bernburg...
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Geoffrey Dean
Aug 9, 20213 min read
Faux-Farewells: Schroeder Travel Log, Part 1
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...
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Geoffrey Dean
Jun 10, 20212 min read
Alwin Schroeder, Etude Anthologist
Long before the appearance of the 170 Foundation Studies for Violoncello, Alwin Schroeder had established himself as both a scholar and...
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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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