Popper: Romantic Cello
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- Composer
- David Popper
- Performers
- Popper, David, Kliegel, Maria, Esterhazy Sinfonia, Nicolaus, David Popper, Esterházy Sinfonia, Gerhard Markson
- Label
- Naxos Classics
- Barcode
- 0636943465721
David Popper(1843-1913)Romantic CelloShowpiecesThe cellist David Popper was born in Prague in 1843, the son of thePrague Cantor. He studied the cello there under the Hamburg cellist JuliusGoltermann, who had taken up an appointment at the Prague Conservatory in 1850.It was through Liszt's then son-in-law, the pianist and conductor Hans vonB??low, that Popper was recommended in 1863 to a position as Chamber Virtuoso atthe court of the Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Konstantin von Hohenzollern, who had hada new residence with a concert hall built at Lowenberg. The musicalestablishment there was disbanded, however, in 1869, on the death of thePrince. In 1867 Popper made his debut in Vienna and the following year wasappointed principal cellist at the Court Opera, serving also for a time ascellist in the Hellmesberger Quartet. In 1872 he married Liszt's pupil SophieMenter, described by her teacher as his only legitimate daughter as a pianistand the greatest woman pianist of the age, later to join the staff of the StPetersburg Conservatory. The following year they left Vienna to embark on aseries of concert tours throughout Europe and in 1882 he undertook a tour ofSpain and Portugal with the French violinist Emil Sauret. His marriage wasdissolved in 1886, the year in which Liszt died during a reluctant stay inBayreuth, where Sophie Menter and her friends had visited him, as his life drewto a close. In 1896 Popper settled in Budapest to teach at the Conservatorythat Liszt had established
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