1724

Giovanni Battista Cirri

(1 October 1724 – 11 June 1808)

Italian cellist and composer

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Portrait by Giacomo Ceruti (1698 – 1767) – Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Public Domain.

Here cellist Alison McGillivray performs the first movement of his Sonata in F Major, Op. 15, No. 3, with harpsichordist Giulia Nuti and lutenist William Carter:

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1860

Paul Prill

(1 October 1860 – 21 December 1930)

German cellist and conductor

Portrait by August Weger – Friedrich Nicolas Manskopf Portrait Collection, University Library, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Call number: 5564333, Public Domain.

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1865

Paul Dukas

(1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935)

French composer, critic, scholar, and teacher

Here is his “Fanfare pour préceder” from La Peri arranged for cello ensemble by Katharina Meldre and performed by cellistRichard Weiss:

1931

Sylvano Bussotti

(1 October 1931 – 19 September 2021)

Italian composer, painter, set and costume designer, opera director and manager, writer, and professor

Photo by Monobelus, CC BY-SA 3.0.

1962

Fred Lonberg-Holm

Happy birthday!

American cellist

CC BY-SA 3.0

Here he plays “Almost Mid-Day” with his trio (the Fred Lonberg-holm Trio):

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