The Romantic Cello

Programme

Career, Repertoire and Reception (i) 

Peter François – François Servais (1807- 1866), the Paganini of the Cello and the Belgian School of Cello Playing 

Interpretation, Technical Skills and Treatises (i) 

Chiu-Chen Chen – Re-reading «Werktreue» through Beethoven’s Cello Intention

Amanda Melo Massa & Felipe Avellar de Aquino – Expanding Possibilities: Jean-Louis Duport’s Treatise and his Legacy Way beyond the 19th Century 

Elisa Grossato – Metodo di violoncello del prof Guglielmo Quarenghi (1877): le possibilità tecniche ed espressive del violoncello nell’Ottocento italiano

Alfredo Piatti 

Annalisa Barzanò – Alfredo Piatti: A Cellist in 19th-Century Europe

Maurizio Merisio – Alfredo Piatti e l’Unione Filarmonica di Bergamo: l’originalità, le esecuzioni per violoncello, l’orchestra ‘stabile’ 

Boris Atanasov – The Bowing Manner in the Capricci for Solo Cello by Alfredo Piatti

Women Cellists 

Natasha Farny – «Give us Dreams of Gold»: Three Romantic Cello Sonatas by Female Composers 

Martin Barré & Fauve Bougard – «La femme violoncelliste aura-t-elle jamais son jour?»: Women’s Conquest of the Cello in the 19th Century through the Lens of the Paris and Brussels Conservatoires (1847-1914) 

Seonhwa Lee – Emilie Mayer’s Cello Sonatas: A Cellist’s Perspective on Context and Today’s Interpretation 

Rebecca Thumpston-Gallagher – Beatrice Harrison – «The World’s Greatest Woman Cellist»: Exploring Attitudes to Women Cello Virtuosi in the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries

Career, Repertoire and Reception (ii) 

Livia Laifrova – Bernard et Jan Št’astny : le rôle des deux frères tchèques dans l’histoire européenne du violoncelle au début du XIX^e siècle 

George Kennaway – The Cellist Heinrich Grünfeld (1855-1931): Not a Virtuoso, but a Celebrity 

Benjamin Guillaume Glorieux – From Servais to Casals: A Creative Perspective on the Brussels Basses of the Romantic Belgian Cello Tradition

Keynote Speaker 

John Lutterman – Romantic Performing Practices on the Cello: «Werktreue» and «Praxistreue»

Interpretation, Technical Skills and Treatises (ii) 

Hilary Metzger – A Comparison of Written Instructions and Recorded Evidence: The Case of Victor Herbert 

Maximiliano Segura Sánchez – «Recueil de Passages tirés de ouvrages de Haydn et Boccherini & c.»: Chamber Music Reception in the First Cello Method for Paris Conservatoire 

Cello Repertory 

Simon Kannenberg – The Missing Link: Joachim Raff’s Cello Concertos 

Tamás Zétényi – The Stages of Grief: Compositions for Violoncello and Piano by Franz Liszt

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