He went with his friend, the violoncellist, Antonio Nardini, to Prague, where they both accepted a position in the orchestra of Count Kinsky. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference
As a violoncellist he has but few equals anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Music and Some Highly Musical People] Reference
Rose and the long-haired, long-nosed violoncellist. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
Bernhard Romberg was a distinguished violoncellist. From Wordnik.com. [Beethoven A Character Study]
He is the first violoncellist whom I really admire. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
Mr. Werner, 'Court-violoncellist to the King of Paraguay.'. From Wordnik.com. [Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay] Reference
THE little violoncellist Zygmatofsky and his unprincipled father are here. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference
By the way, that young fellow over there who said that is a violoncellist. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
Crossdill, the violoncellist, proposed to celebrate him with "three times three.". From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Haydn]
The violoncellist was considerably older than either pianist or violinist, being born in 1795. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
Charles Nicolas Baudiot (1773-1849), the violoncellist, at one time professor at the Conservatoire. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
Baillot, the veteran violinist; Franchomme, the young violoncellist; Brod, the oboe-player; and Tulou, the flutist. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
Regina Sacchi, who married a noted German violoncellist named Schlick, was celebrated for her performances on the violin. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday]
Ivanovna had a great number, the violoncellist played, and the hostess herself sketched, carved, sang, and played accompaniments. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife, and other stories] Reference
Langham craned his neck forward, and saw a struggle going on over a roll of music, between Rose and the long-haired, long-nosed violoncellist. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
The violoncellist played, a singer sang, and invariably at half-past eleven the door leading to the dining-room opened and Dymov, smiling, said. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife, and other stories] Reference
Chopin speaks in one of his letters of a violoncellist who played a certain poor piece so remarkably well that it actually appeared to be good music. From Wordnik.com. [Chopin and Other Musical Essays] Reference
I found a violoncellist there and entered into conversation with him: his eyes reminded me strangely of my father's; he told me the story of his life. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe Journey's End] Reference
While in his service she became the wife of Jean Mara, a handsome, dissipated court violoncellist, whom she loved devotedly, but who led her a sorry life. From Wordnik.com. [For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music] Reference
(Said of the violoncellist Duport, the favorite of King William I, of Prussia, in 1789, when Mozart was in Berlin and Duport asked him to speak French.) 112. From Wordnik.com. [Mozart The Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words]
Then a violoncellist, whose instrument used to sob, and who openly declared that of all the ladies of his acquaintance the only one who could accompany him was Olga. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife, and other stories] Reference
The most shameful part of the affair was that Mara (a miserable violoncellist, all here declare) would never have been heard at court at all but for Cannabich, who had taken considerable trouble about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference
An actor from the Dramatic Theatre recited, a singer sang, artists sketched in the albums of which Olga Ivanovna had a great number, the violoncellist played, and the hostess herself sketched, carved, sang, and played accompaniments. From Wordnik.com. [The Grasshopper] Reference
Then a violoncellist, whose instrument used to sob, and who openly declared that of all the ladies of his acquaintance the only one who could accompany him was Olga Ivanovna; then there was a literary man, young but already well known, who had written stories, novels, and plays. From Wordnik.com. [The Grasshopper] Reference
I simply took the tempo of the introduction to the overture as I felt it; whereupon a veteran member of the orchestra, the old violoncellist Dotzauer, turned towards me and said seriously: "Yes, this is the way Weber himself took it; I now hear it again correctly for the first time.". From Wordnik.com. [On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,] Reference
Council ballet, while the little scene-painter and Press Commissioner stood aside with cocked ears, and the privileged violoncellist made his careless jests -- how, I say, can one who has thus been above the clouds on Olympus ever associate with the gaping, chattering, irresponsible herd below?. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series] Reference
Leipzig, Leuckart, 1890), was written by Liszt and Chopin jointly, and was also signed by Chopin's friend Franchomme, the violoncellist. From Wordnik.com. [Letters]
In this year two other violinists of note made their first appearance at the Philharmonic concerts, ” Ernst and Sainton, also Piatti, the great violoncellist. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday]
Old Kuh, the violoncellist, suffered even more. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe, Volume I] Reference
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