Antonio Guarnieri

(1 February 1880 – 25 November 1952) Italian cellist and conductor   He succeeded Arturo Toscanini as conductor at La Scala.

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Henryk Waghalter

(1 February 1869 — 29 August 1961 or 13 April 1958) Polish cellist and composer   He was a student of Władysław Aloiz, Zygmunt Noskowski, Julius Klengel, and Antonín Dvořák. He was a Holocaust survivor. Here is his Gavotte for Cello and Piano, Op. 5, played by cellist Anna Wróbel

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Victor August Herbert

(1 February 1859 – 26 May 1924) American composer, cellist, and conductor   Here is his Cello Concerto No.1 in D Major, Op.8, performed by cellist Lynn Harrell with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under Sir Neville Marriner: Get the sheet music in a critical edition of his Cello Concerto

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Johann Gottfried Arnold

(15 February 1773 – 16 July 1806) German cellist, composer, and cello teacher Click here for sheet music to his cello concertos and other works.

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Frederick, Prince of Wales

(1 February 1707 – 31 March 1751) Heir Apparent to the British Throne (1727-1751) and amateur cellist

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Iagoba Fanlo

1970 Happy birthday! Spanish cellist   Here is a recording of him playing the Gigue from Bach Suite No. 6:   Website link

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Count Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanovecz

(20 November 1759 – 23 June 1833) Beethoven-Haus Bonn, NE 81, Band VII, Nr. 178 a. Hungarian Court Chancellery official and cellist friend of Beethoven   Beethoven wrote his Duet with two obbligato eyeglasses for them to play together. (They both wore eyeglasses.) Here is a recording of this duet

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Felix Salmond

(19 November 1888 – 20 February 1952) English cellist and cello teacher   Here he plays the 3rd movement of the Chopin Sonata: 

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Ossian Fohström

(21 November 1870 – 10 November 1952) Finnish cellist

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James Wolfensohn

James Wolfensohn (1 December 1933 – 25 November 2020)

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