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On June 15, 1855, Alwin Schroeder was born in Neuhaldensleben, Germany, into “an atmosphere intensely musical.” He followed his father and brothers into music, then ventured further than any of them when he came to the US 130 years ago.
1891 was an “intensely musical” year in the United States. Tchaikovsky was in New York for the opening of Carnegie Hall, and Dvorak had accepted a new job at the National Conservatory in the same city. Pianists Paderewski were taking the country by storm on their first US tours, and several leading vocalists of American birth had just returned triumphantly from Europe. Among the Leipzig musicians recruited that year for the competing orchestras of New York and Boston were violinist Adolphe Brodsky (as concertmaster of the New York Symphony Society) and cellist Alwin Schroeder (as principal cellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra).
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* Note from Geoffrey Dean: The schroeder170 project celebrates the 170th anniversary of the birth of German-American cellist Alwin Schroeder. Based on my research into his life and musical career, the project is inspired by Schroeder’s “170 Foundation Studies for Violoncello,” a famous compilation known affectionately as “The Schroeder Etudes.”
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