Felix Salmond

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Signed photo by Felix Salmond, around 1922

Felix Adrian Norman Salmond (born November 19, 1888 in London , † February 19 or February 20, 1952 in New York City ) was an English cellist .

Life

Felix Salmond was the son of the baritone Norman Salmond and the pianist Adelaide Manzocchi , a former piano student of Clara Schumann . From 1905 to 1909 he studied at the Royal College of Music with William Whitehouse , and private lessons with Édouard Jacobs in Brussels . In 1909 he appeared in public for the first time with his mother as a companion in the Bechstein Hall . Tours of Great Britain followed, partly as a soloist, partly with the orchestras of the Queen's Hall , the London Symphony Orchestra , the Hallé Orchestra and that of theRoyal Albert Hall . He has also given concerts in the USA with a piano quartet in which Harold Bauer , Bronisław Huberman and Lionel Tertis participated. In 1919 he took part in the world premieres of Edward Elgar's piano quartet and piano quintet, and in autumn 1919 he performed his cello concerto for the first time. From 1919 to 1921 Salmond was the cellist of the piano quartet The Chamber Music Players with William Murdoch , Albert Sammons and Tertis. In 1922 he gave concerts as a soloist in the USA, where he then settled.

In 1924 Salmond became a teacher at the Juilliard Graduate School , from 1925 to 1942 he headed the cello department of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. His students included Orlando Cole , Bernard Greenhouse , Leonard Rose, and Daniel Saidenberg .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lynda MacGregor:  Salmond, Felix. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  2. ^ Obituary Musical Times, April 1952
personal data
SURNAME Salmond, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salmond, Felix Adrian Norman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English cellist
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1952
Place of death New York City