Wilhelm Fitzenhagen - Concert-Walzer, Op. 31 for 4 Cellos (1900)

Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Fitzenhagen (15 September 1848 - 14 February 1890) was a German cellist, composer and teacher, best known today as the dedicatee of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme.
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Concert-Walzer, Op. 31 for 4 Cellos (c. 1900)
Dedication: Dr. H. Sommer in Braunschweig
Vienna Philharmonic cellists: Sebastian Bru, Edison Pashko,
Raphael Flieder and Bernhard Hedenborg
Fitzenhagen was born in Seesen in the Duchy of Brunswick, where his father served as music director. Beginning at age five, he received lessons on the piano, the cello and the violin. Many times, he had to substitute for wind players absent due to various emergencies. At age 14, Fitzenhagen began advanced studies of the cello with Theodore Müller. Three years later, Fitzenhagen played for the Duke of Brunswick, who released him from all military service. In 1867, some noble patrons enabled him to study for a year with Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden, A year later he was appointed to the Dresden Hofkapelle, where he started his career as soloist.
Fitzenhagen's playing at the 1870 Beethoven Festival in Weimar attracted the attention of Franz Liszt, who had formerly served as music director there. Liszt attempted to talk Fitzenhagen into joining the court orchestra. Fitzenhagen, however, had already accepted a professorship at the Moscow Conservatory. Fitzenhagen became regarded as the premier cello instructor in Russia and equally well known as a soloist and chamber music performer. He was appointed solo cellist to the Russian Musical Society and director of the Moscow Music and Orchestral Union. It was through this union that he made many concert appearances as a soloist. He formed a friendship with Tchaikovsky, giving the first performances of all three of that composer's string quartets as well as the Piano Trio as a member of the Russian Music Society's quartet.
Fitzenhagen trained a number of excellent cellists, including Joseph Adamowski, who went to America in 1889 to join the newly formed Boston Symphony Orchestra and helped found the orchestra's pension program. Adamowski also formed a string quartet named after him and taught at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

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Wunderschöne Aufführung dieses spätromantischen und einzigartig konstruierten Meisterwerks im rhythmischen Tempo mit milden doch gut phrasierten Tönen vierer genialen Violoncelli und mit angenehmer Dynamik. Die intime und perfekt entsprechende Miteinanderwirkung zwischen den vier Virtuosen ist wahrlich beeindruckend. Einfach wunderbar!

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I wanna play this

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This is a banger. 🤘

[@barney6888]

Now where did I leave that 4th cello?

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Wait, how could Fitzenhagen have composed this in 1900, when he lived from 1848 to 1890? :D Any superpower, cellists had back then?

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It was published in 1900. IMSLP had no other date. I am guessing somewhere in 1870's.