Adolfo Odnoposoff

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Adolfo Odnoposoff (

Beginning around 1930, Odnoposoff studied with Emanuel Feuermann and Paul Grümmer at the Music High School in Berlin (die Hochschule für Musik zu Berlin, which, as of 2001, has been known as Berlin University of the Arts). 1930 coincided with the coup d'état in Argentina. In 1932, Odnoposoff moved to Paris, entering École Normale de Musique, where, in 1935, he earned a concert and teaching diploma. While there, he studied cello with Diran Alexanian, a colleague of Pablo Casals.

Israel

1936, Odnoposoff, seeking refuge from the

From 1938 to 1941, Odnoposoff was principal cellist with The National Symphony Orchestra of Peru. In 1940, he was a founding member of the Chile Cuarteto de Cuerdas (Chile String Quartet) — with Willie McDermott (violin), Raúl Martínez (viola), Fredy Wang (Alfredo Wang; 1918–2004) (violin), sponsored by The Institute of Musical Extension at the University of Chile. He held that chair until 1944.

Cuba

From 1944 to 1958, he was principal cellist of the Orquesta Filarmónica de La Habana,^[10] when, then, was conducted by Erich Kleiber. Alexander Prilutchi (1913–2001) was concertmaster and, from 1945 to 1953, J. Wolfgang Granat (1918–1998) was first violist.^[11][12] Granat went to play viola with the Philadelphia Orchestra for 35 years, until he retired in 1991. In Havana, Odnoposoff had been a member of a trio of Sociedad de Música de Cámara (Chamber Music Society) — with Prilutchi and pianist Paquito Godino (né Francisco Jose Godino; 1919–1996).^[13][14] In January 1959, Fidel Castro's revolutionaries overtook Havana. Within 6 months, Castro became the new president and restructured Cuba as a communist state.

Mexico and Puerto Rico

From 1958 to 1961, Odnoposoff was cellist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico. While in Mexico, he taught at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música.^[15][16] From 1964 to 1974, Odnoposoff, at the invitation of Pablo Casals, taught at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. For 10 years, he was head of the Cello Department and served as the right-hand man of Casals, director of the conservatory that he founded.^[17][18] Casals died on October 22, 1973.

United States

During the 1975–1976 academic year, Odnoposoff became a visiting professor at the

Adolfo was one of three children born in Buenos Aires to the marriage of Mauricio (altnernate spelling: Moisés) Odnoposoff and Juana (née Veinstien; alternate spelling Weinstien).

Alolfo's brother, Ricardo Odnoposoff (de) (1914–2004), was the former concertmaster of Vienna Philharmonic.

Adolfo's sister, Nélida Odnoposoff (born 1919), was a critically acclaimed Argentine concert pianist^[22] whose European debut was in 1935 in Berlin. Growing up in Buenos Aires, she had been a protégée of the Argentine pianist Edmundo Piazzini (es), and in Berlin, she studied with Hansi Freudberg. Nélida concertized until the late 1950s. During the early 1940s, was associated with the Opera and Ballet of Montevideo^[23] and had soloed with important orchestras of Latin America.^{[24][25][26][27][28]}

Mauricio Odnoposoff had emigrated from Russia to Argentina with his father. When Ricardo, Adolfo, and Nélida were studying music in Germany, Mauricio and Juana Odnoposoff moved to Germany.

Marriage

Adolfo met his wife, Berthe (né Huberman; born in

Adolfo Odnoposoff maintained his Argentine citizenship; although, in 1977 Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe made him an honorary citizen of the State of Texas, and presented him a commemorative plaque.^[29]

The surname, Odnoposoff, has various spellings (typically "z" instead of "s" and "v" instead of "ff"). But under this particular spelling, the name faces extinction in the Western Hemisphere. Of the two males born to Mauricio and Juana Odnoposoff, (i) Ricardo Odnoposoff (de) and his wife Hilde had one daughter, Henriette Helene Odnoposoff, who, in 1978, married David Mark Hume (born 1952); (ii) Adolfo and Berthe had one daughter, Alina M. Odnoposoff (born 1954), who married Mark J. Heller (born 1954).

Musical output

Selected discography

Selected dedicated works

Wikipedia interlanguage link codes

es = Spanish de = German ca = Catalan

Works dedicated to Adolfo and Berthe Odnoposoff

Cuban composers

• OCLC 50501494, 68060070^[37]

Premiered by Adolfo and Berthe in Havana in 1954 at a concert of the Sociedad de Conciertos; it was immediately recorded by

Panart as an LP that included works by other Cuban composers, such as Amadeo Roldán, Pedro Menéndez, and José Ardévol (see Selected discography above); Vega (de) dedicated the work to the marriage of Odnoposoff and Huberman.^[38] The work was published in the Washington, D.C., in 1955 by the Pan American Union

• OCLC 8916551

Mexican composers

• OCLC 844449636, 56190464
  (2nd reference is a manuscript copy)
• OCLC 4221521, 6013060
• OCLC 5209779, 25094231, 679420863
• OCLC 13272796
• OCLC 699264931
• OCLC 14952076, 699264763
• Eduardo Mata: "Sonata" (1966)

Argentine composers

• Guillermo Graetzer (de): "Concierto para Cello y Orquesta"
• OCLC 315566810
• Floro Ugarte (es): "Elegia"
• Antonío Tauriello (es): "Diferencias No. 3"

Puerto Rican composers

• Hector Campos Parsi
  : "Arawak para Cello and Electronic Sounds"
• Luis Antonio Ramírez: "Sonata Elegiaca," for cello and piano (1970)
• Roberto Sierra: "Dialogo No. 1"
• OCLC 56020031, 54789293

Elsewhere

• OCLC 45207120
• OCLC 182106, 221756947
• Federico Heinlein (es) (Chile): "Sonatina"
• Ninón de Brouwer Lapeiretta (Santo Domingo
  ): "Romanza"
• Martin Mailman (United States): "Clastics: Formations for Solo Cello," Op. 61
• German Borda (es) (Colombia): "Movimiento de Sonata"

Notable performances

• 1947: Odnoposoff debuted in New York at Town Hall, January 29, 1947.^[22]
• 1949: Aurelio de la Vega (de): "Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano" (1949), performed in Havana by Odnoposoff, Alexander Prilutchi (violin), and Rafael Morales (1905–1990) (piano). The trio was sponsored by the Sociedad de Música de Cámara (Chamber Music Society)^[39]
• 1957: Odnoposoff, as guest soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile (es), performed Ernest Bloch's Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra, Victor Tevah, conductor^[40]
• 1961:
  OCLC 38494922, 85418923
• 1963–1964 season,
  Palestine Symphony Orchestra
  , George Singer conducting
• March 1966: Mario Davidovsky's "Synchronisms No. 3" (1964), for cello and electronic sound, San Juan, Puerto Rico^[41]
• 1966:
  Caracas, Venezuela, performed by Jose Figueroa (violin), Odnoposoff, Héctor Tosar (es)
  (piano)
• 1988: Wigmore Hall, London, March 19, at 7:30, Odnoposoff, cello, with Aldo Ciccolini

"Fantasia for Cello and Piano" – Gerard Schurmann (fr)

(other works were performed by Ciccolini)

"Fantasia" was composed in 1967 and premiered March 1967 by Odnoposoff and Ciccolini at the Salle Pleyel, Paris – Odnoposoff and Ciccolini also performed the work at Lincoln Center, Manhattan^[42]

Instrument

• Odnoposoff owned and performed on a compound Amati cello, circa 1680.^[43]

List of former students

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• Christopher Adkins (born 1959), principal cellist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (1987–present); former principal cellist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
• Fabio Landa (born 1924), cellist, composer, studied with Odnoposoff in
  Havana, Cuba^[44][b]
• Deborah Petty Brooks (born 1955), Associate Principal Cellist with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (1985-1999) and solo cellist of Casa Mañana Musicals (1981–present) and Dallas Summer Musicals (1998–present).

References and further reading

External links

Conciertos Daniel, an artist management agency, managed the concert tours of Adolfo Odnoposoff. Primarily a family business, three generations of family members managed Odnoposoff.

• Adolfo Odnoposoff photo at the Conciertos Daniel website
• Berthe Odnoposoff's bio at the University of North Texas
• Audio sample: Amadeo Roldan (1900–1939), "Punto cubano," Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano

References

Notes

1. ^
   Bronislaw Huberman
   was Yaakov's son.
   
   
2. ^ Fabio Landa (born 23 March 1924 Villa Clara Province, Cuba) was a Cuban composer, cellist, and conductor who studied piano with Adolfo Odnoposoff and the cello with Ernesto Xancó at the Havana Municipal Conservatory. He also played guitar and clarinet. Landa was a cellist in the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra from 1946 to 1958 and the Cuban Radio and TV Orchestra from 1953 to 1959. He was also a member of two Havana quartets, one of which was the José White String Quartet, named for Cuba's greatest violinist of the 19th and 20th centuries. (Oxford Music Online)
   
   

Inline citations

1. ISSN 0006-3053
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3. ^ Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

   Sixth edition, revised by

   OCLC 830628576

   
   Seventh edition, revised by

   OCLC 52719848

   
   Eighth edition, revised by

   OCLC 24246972

   
   Ninth edition, edited by Laura Kuhn, New York:

   OCLC 44972043

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         Vol. 2: Baa-Cancio;
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         Vol. 3: Canción-Corell;
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         Vol. 4: Corella-Fattoruso;
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         Vol. 7: Maaning-Ñuwiñ-ül;
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         Vol. 10: Sorgia-Zyman;
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14. OCLC 52298889

    "Paquito Godino," Sec. 2 G, pg. 53
    "Adolfo Odnoposoff," Sec. 5, N-O, pg. 44
    "Alexander Prilutchi (ru)", Sec. 5, P-Q, pg. 109

    Diaz Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection, Florida International University
15. OCLC 192108846
16. OCLC 904071071
17. ISBN 978-0-8477-2505-2
18. ^ "Fallece Adolfo Odnoposoff," by Sylvia Lamoutte, El Nuevo Día (San Juan, Puerto Rico), March 26, 1992
19. OCLC 10734135
20. ^ "Adolfo Odnoposoff, Cellist, 75," The New York Times, Vol. 141, No. 48,909, March 18, 1992, p. D22, col. 1 (bottom)
21. ISSN 0003-1313
22. ^ ^{a b} "Adolfo Odnoposoff in Recital on Cello," The New York Times, Vol. 96, No. 32,513, January 30, 1947, p. 20, col. 2 (accessible via TimesMachine)
23. OCLC 51769151
24. OCLC 604744
25. LCCN 56-57422
26. ISSN 1983-2850
27. OCLC 16451888
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29. ^
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30. ISSN 0083-9841
31. ISSN 0083-9825
32. ISSN 0270-2940
33. ISSN 0083-9825
34. ^ "Berthe Huberman de Odnoposoff, acclaimed pianist, dies at 94", Denton Record-Chronicle via Legacy.com, July 10, 2019
35. ISSN 0717-6252
36. ^ Ginastera: A Discography, Lewis Foreman, Tempo, New Series, No. 118 (Sep., 1976), pp. 17–22
37. OCLC 10248012

    Note: Aurelio de la Vega (de)

    (Associate Professor) was one of the three thesis committee members
38. ^ "Redescubrir a Aurelio de la Vega" ["Rediscover Aurelio de la Vega"] (Archived January 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine), by Roberto Méndez, Palabra Neuva (palabranueva.net) (magazine of the Archdiocese of Havana), No. 200, October 2010
39. ISSN 1136-6389
40. OCLC 460581003
41. OCLC 37890534
42. OCLC 873037792, 474709192
    (retrieved May 22, 2017)
43. archive.is)
    (ii) the contributor, Daphnis Igor Sarmientos, DMA (born 1962), originally from Guatemala, is an American conductor, cellist, musicologist, and music educator who had studied with Odnoposoff from 1988 to 1990 at North Texas
    while working on his Masters of Music in Cello and Conducting

OCLC 5104829627