Type of Document	Treatise
Author	Raychev, Evgeni Dimitrov
URN	etd-08262003-173701
Title	The Virtuoso Cellist-Composers From Luigi Boccherini to David Popper: A Review of Their Lives and Works
Degree	Doctor of Musical Arts
Department	Music, School of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Lubomir Georgiev Committee Chair Bruce Holzman Committee Member Carolyn Bridger Committee Member Phillip Spurgeon Committee Member
Keywords	Luigi Boccherini David Popper Cello
Date of Defense	2003-06-01
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract In the course of their study, student cellists spend hours of practicing standard cello repertoire that includes etudes, caprices, character pieces, sonatas, and various concertos. Almost exclusively, the composers of these compositions were remarkable performers and played prominent roles in the musical life of their time. The role of the cello until the middle of the eighteenth century was primarily that of a basso continuo instrument and gifted cellists were obliged to compose their own works in order to fully display the technical and expressive qualities of the instrument. Without scruples, virtuoso cellists arranged violin pieces for their own use, and while observing the marvelous technique of the violin masters, they tried to emulate every possible manner of violin playing that seemed attractive and applicable to the cello. In their musical endeavors, student cellists often take for granted the efforts that the eighteenth and nineteenth-century virtuosos made towards perfecting the art of violoncello playing. As a result, many of the works of the great masters on the cello became forgotten, and students have at best a dim knowledge of the life and times of those composers. The purpose of this treatise is to compile a list of brief biographies of those cello virtuosos who were also prominent composers in their time, to discuss the cello works that have preserved their pedagogical value, and to supply a list of the composers’ cello compositions. The span of time comprises about a century starting with the great cello virtuoso Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) and ending chronologically with the celebrated David Popper (1843-1913).
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