Adolfo Odnoposoff (

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, 22 February 1917 –

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, 13 March 1992) was an Argentine-born-and-raised cellist of Russian ancestry who performed in concerts for 5 decades in South, Central, and North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Israel, and the former

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. He had performed as principal cellist in the

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and many of the important orchestras of Latin America. He had soloed with major orchestras under conductors that include

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, Victor Tevah,

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, Luis Ximénez Caballero (es),

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, Sir John Barbirolli,

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, Jorge Sarmientos (es),

, George Singer (1908–1980), Ricardo del Carmen (1937-2003),

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Biography

Career

Formal education

Beginning around 1930, Odnoposoff studied with

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and Paul Grümmer at the Music High School in Berlin (die Hochschule für Musik zu Berlin, which, as of 2001, has been known as

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). 1930 coincided with the ''

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'' in

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. In 1932, Odnoposoff moved to Paris, entering

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, where, in 1935, he earned a concert and teaching diploma. While there, he studied cello with Diran Alexanian, a colleague of

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because he was a

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, moved to

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, where he became a founding member of the

for its inaugural 1936–1937 season. He had performed with the orchestra, then called the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, in various roles, including that of principal cellist and soloist. The orchestra was founded by

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, a cousin once removed of Odnoposoff's future wife, Berthe Huberman.

Peru and Chile

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

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. He held that chair until 1944.

Cuba

From 1944 to 1958, he was

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cellist of the Orquesta Filarmónica de La Habana, when, then, was conducted by

. Alexander Prilutchi (1913–2001) was

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and, from 1945 to 1953, J. Wolfgang Granat (1918–1998) was first violist. Granat went to play viola with the

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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). In January 1959, Fidel Castro's revolutionaries overtook

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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. From 1964 to 1974, Odnoposoff, at the invitation of

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. 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. Casals died on October 22, 1973.

United States

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

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following an extensive tour of the

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— while still holding the post as Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the

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. He and his wife soon became a full-time professors at North Texas. In 1977, his friend,

became the conductor of the

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. Odnoposoff remained active teaching and concertizing until his retirement in 1988, whereupon

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awarded him ''Professor Emeritus'' status. His wife, Berthe, continued as a professor of music at

until her retirement.

Legacy in Latin American classical music

Odnoposoff was an influential exponent of Latin classical music, notably works by

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, Blas Galindo Dimas, Rodolfo Halffter. He presented numerous lectures, master classes, and concerts throughout the

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on that theme.

Personal life

Early life and family background

Adolfo was one of three children born in

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

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. Adolfo's sister, Nélida Odnoposoff (born 1919), was a critically acclaimed Argentine concert pianist whose European debut was in 1935 in Berlin. Growing up in

, she had been a ''

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'' 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

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''The Teatro Solís: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo,'' by Susana Salgado,

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(2003); and had soloed with important orchestras of Latin America.''Exploring the Musical Mind,'' by Jacob Kwalwasser (1894–1977), Coleman-Ross Co. (1955); ''Gran Enciclopedia Argentina'' (in vol. 6 of 8 vols.),

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(ed.),

: Ediar (1956–1963); ,
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'' by Josefina Irurzun, ''Revista Brasileira de História das Religiões'' (journal), Vol. 5, No. 15, January 2013 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

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) in Cuba in 1941, when he was principal cellist with the Havana Symphony. Berthe was a young aspiring concert pianist. She is a

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of the violinist Bronislaw Huberman and also the

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of Mexican poet Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, PhD. Odnoposoff's wife, Berthe ''(also spelled'' Berte and Berta; ''née'' Huberman born in

on May 19, 1925) was a widely acclaimed piano virtuoso. Since 1941, when they met in

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. She joined the faculty at the

in 1976. She held a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences Degree, a Diploma in piano, and a Diploma in theory and harmony from the Ministry of Education, Havana, Cuba. She not only mentored aspiring performing artists at the conservatory and collegiate levels, she developed effective pedagogical approaches for gifted pianists at primary and secondary school ages. Berthe Huberman de Odnoposoff died on July 1, 2019, at the age of 94. Adolfo, his wife, and his brother performed their final concert together in May 1987— and billed it as a farewell — playing Beethoven's '' Triple Concerto'' with the National Symphony Orchestra of Guatemala under the direction of Ricardo del Carmen.

Other information

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. 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

. 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

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, '' Cello Sonata No. 1, in F Major,'' Op. 5,

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(Chile) (1945)
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'' ''Revista Musical Chilena'' (chronicle) (), Vol. 1, No. 6, October 1945, pg. 41; : Odnoposoff, cello; Elvira Savi (es) (1920–1913) : The record also includes Mozart's '' Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor'', performed by Rosita Renard *

, "Pampeana No. 2" for cello and piano, Op. 21, Victor (Argentina) 68 8047 (

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) : Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano * ''At The Center,'' New York: Center For Inter-American Relations, 33- LP (1970); : Side B #

, "Pampeana No. 2" for cello and piano, Op. 21 : Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano : Recorded on November 21, 1968 * Saint-Saëns, "Allegro Appassionata," Op. 43, for cello and piano, Victor 68 8046 (1953) :: Granados, "Intermezzo" from the opera ''

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'' : Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano * ''Cuban Contemporary Music,''

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(1954); : Odnoposoff, cello, Huberman, pianist, #

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, "Sonatina For Cello And Piano" :: a) "Andantino" :: b) "Slow-vivo" :: c) "Alegretto" #

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: Two Popular Songs :: a) "Cuban Point" :: b) "Vueltabajo Guajira" ("The Babbling Brook") #

Aurelio de la Vega, "Legend of Ariel Criollo" # Pedro Menéndez, "Black Canto" : String Orchestra of CMZ Radio, Havana,

, conductor #

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, "Serenade For String Orchestra" :: a) "Allegretto" :: b) "Andante Moderato" :: c) "Allegro" : National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba conducted by Jean Constantinesco : Live performance,

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in 1960 #

John White, "Elegy" * ''In Memory of Pablo Casals,''

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, 33- LP (1974); :: Unnamed composition of

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, 33- LP (1975); , :: "Reverie," for cello and piano, Odnoposoff; cello, Huberman, piano : Recorded 1974–1975 at the Ochoa and Echo Sound Studios,

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* Aurelio de la Vega (de), ''Legend of the Creole Ariel'' (audiotape) (no date); Hans Moldenhauer Collection,

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, Call No. MS Mus 261, Item 2091 : Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano : Includes also Quintet for winds (1959), with the Westwood Woodwind Quintet : Moldenhauer, Hans, collector. The Moldenhauer Archives at Harvard University * Third Music Festival of

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; 96–kHz, 24 bit) : (works 1–3), (works 4–5), (work 4), (work 5), (work 5) : Live performance, Third Music Festival of

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, May 12, 1966 # Halffter: "Sonata," Op. 26 :: a) "Allegro deciso" :: b) "Tempo de siciliana" :: c) "Rondó: Allegro" #

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(de): "Legend of Ariel Criollo" #

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, "Pampeana No. 2" : Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano #

Sergio Cervetti (es), "Cinco Episodios Para Trio" ("Five Movements For Trio") #

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, "Trio" Op. 58 : José Figueroa, violin; Odnoposoff, cello; Elias López, piano * Héctor Campos Parsi, "Serenade," for string trio,

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ICP MC-4, 33- LP (197?); , : José Madera, violin; Guillermo Figueroa, viola; Odnoposoff, cello * ''Seis piezas breves (Six Short Pieces),''

ICP C-8 (197?); , #

Luis Antonio Ramírez (1923–1995): "Sonata Elegiaca," for cello and piano : Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano : Recorded July & August 1971 at the Ochoa Sound Studio #

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: "Petroglifos," for violin, cello and piano : José Figueroa, violin; Odnoposoff, cello; Jesús María Sanromá, piano : Recorded in concert at the

, October 8, 1967 * ''Adolfo Odnoposoff: Obras De Galindo- Halffter- Ponce- Revueltas- Sandi,'' Mexico: Musart MCD-3027, Serie SACM (es), 33- LP (1962); : Side A # Galindo: "Sonata" # Ponce: "Tres preludios" : Side B #

Halffter: "Sonata," Op. 26 :: a) "Allegro deciso" :: b) "Tempo de siciliana" :: c) "Rondó: Allegro" #

Revueltas: two selections from "Siete canciones" ("Seven Children's Songs") :: a) "Canción de cuna" ("Cradle Song") :: b) "Las cinco horas" ("The Five Hours") #

Sandi: "Hoja de albúm" ("Sheet album")

: Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano :

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, "Rhapsody for Cello and Piano" (last movement) (recording date not known); : Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano

Selected dedicated works

Works dedicated to Adolfo and Berthe Odnoposoff Cuban composers * Aurelio de la Vega (de) (

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): "Legend of Ariel Criollo" (1953); :: Premiered by Adolfo and Berthe in Havana in 1954 at a concert of the Sociedad de Conciertos; it was immediately recorded by

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as an LP that included works by other Cuban composers, such as

, Pedro Menéndez, and

(see Selected discography above);

(de) dedicated the work to the marriage of Odnoposoff and Huberman. The work was published in the Washington, D.C., in 1955 by the

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(

): "Sonatina," for cello and piano,

: Ricordi Americana (publisher) (1955); Mexican composers * Simón Tapia Colman (ca): "Sonata," for cello and piano, Ediciones Mexicanas de Música (publisher) (1961); (2nd reference is a manuscript copy) * Rodolfo Halffter: "Sonata," Op. 26, Peer International (publisher) (1962); *

Blas Galindo Blas Galindo Dimas (February 3, 1910 – April 19, 1993) was a Mexican composer. Biography Born in San Gabriel, Jalisco, Galindo studied intermittently from 1931 to 1944 at the National Conservatory in Mexico City, studying with Carlos Chávez ...

: "Sonata," Ediciones Mexicanas de Música (publisher) (1962); * Manuel Enríquez: "Sonatina" (manuscript copy) (1962); *

Luis Sandi Luis Sandi Meneses (22 February 1905, Mexico City – 1996), was a musician, teacher and composer. Biography The complete name is Luis Sandi Meneses. Born February 22, 1905 in Mexico City, the only child of Genaro Sandi and María Meneses. Sa ...

: "Hoja de Album," for cello and piano, Ediciones Mexicanas de Música (publisher) (1963); , *

: "Sonatina," for cello and piano, Ediciones Mexicanas de Musica (publisher) (1965); *

: "Sonata" (1966) Argentine composers * Guillermo Graetzer (de): "Concierto para Cello y Orquesta" * Julio César Brero: "Variaciones sobre un tema italiano"; * Floro Ugarte (es): "Elegia" * Antonío Tauriello (es): "Diferencias No. 3" Puerto Rican composers *

: "Arawak para Cello and Electronic Sounds" * Luis Antonio Ramírez: "Sonata Elegiaca," for cello and piano (1970) * Roberto Sierra: "Dialogo No. 1" * Roberto Sierra: "Salsa on the C String," for cello and piano (1981); Elsewhere *

Paul Csonka Paul Augustus Csonka (24 October 1905 – 24 November 1995) was an Austrian composer and opera conductor. In 1973, he was awarded the highest artistic honor the Austrian Government grants: the Cross of honor. The following year(1974), Maestro ...

(

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): "Serenata for Cello and Orchestra" (1954); * Roque Cordero (

Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...

): "Sonata for Violoncello and Piano," Peer International (publisher) (1963) (commissioned by Odnoposoff); * Federico Heinlein (es) (

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

): "Sonatina" * Ninón de Brouwer Lapeiretta (

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): "Romanza" *

Martin Mailman Martin S. Mailman (30 June 1932, in New York City – 18 April 2000, in Denton, Texas) was an American composer noted for his music for orchestra, chorus, multimedia, and winds. Biography He was born in New York City on June 30, 1932. He studi ...

(

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): "Clastics: Formations for Solo Cello," Op. 61 * German Borda (es) (

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): "Movimiento de Sonata"

Notable performances

* 1947: Odnoposoff debuted in New York at

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, January 29, 1947. * 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) * 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 * 1961: Rodolfo Halffter's "Cello Sonata," Op. 26, was composed between 1959 and 1960 for the second Inter-American Festival, held in Washington in 1961. The composer dedicated it to Adolfo Odnoposoff and his wife, Berthe Huberman. Odnoposoff performed the premiere with Mexican pianist and composer Alicia Urreta on 26 April 1961 in the Library of Congress's Coolidge Auditorium; * 1963–1964 season, Brahms's " Double Concerto," Endre Wolf, violin, and Adolfo Odnoposoff, cello, Palestine Symphony Orchestra, George Singer conducting * March 1966: Mario Davidovsky's "Synchronisms No. 3" (1964), for cello and electronic sound,

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* 1966:

Rházes Hernández-López Rházes Hernández López (1918–1991) was a Venezuelan composer and flutist born in Caracas June 30, 1918. He died in Caracas in 1991. He composed several works for the piano, including ''Casualismo no. 6'' (1984), and ''Prisma no. 1'' (1979). ...

, "Tres Espacios Para Trio," Third Music Festival of

, performed by Jose Figueroa (violin), Odnoposoff,

Héctor Tosar Héctor Alberto Tosar Errecart (Montevideo, Uruguay, 18 July 1923 - Montevideo, 17 January 2002) was a Uruguayan pianist and classical composer. He also taught; among his pupils was Hiltrud Kellner Hiltrud Kellner, sometimes Hiltrud Kellner de Zo ...

(es) (piano) * 1988:

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, March 19, at 7:30, Odnoposoff, cello, with

Aldo Ciccolini Aldo Ciccolini (; 15 August 1925 – 1 February 2015) was an Italian pianist who became a naturalized French citizen in 1971. Biography Aldo Ciccolini was born in Naples. His father, whose family bore the title of Marquis in the city of Macera ...

:: "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

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– Odnoposoff and Ciccolini also performed the work at

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Instrument

* Odnoposoff owned and performed on a compound

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cello, ''

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'' 1680.

List of former students

* Christopher Adkins (born 1959), principal cellist with the

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(1987–present); former principal cellist with the

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* Fabio Landa (born 1924), cellist, composer, studied with Odnoposoff in

Havana, Cuba Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. * Deborah Petty Brooks (born 1955), Associate Principal Cellist with the

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(1985-1999) and solo cellist of

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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

Inline citations

{{DEFAULTSORT:Odnoposoff, Adolfo 1917 births 1992 deaths Argentine classical cellists American classical cellists 20th-century classical musicians 20th-century American musicians Jewish Argentine musicians Jewish American musicians Argentine emigrants to the United States American people of Argentine-Jewish descent American people of Russian-Jewish descent Argentine people of Russian-Jewish descent University of North Texas College of Music faculty Texas classical music 20th-century American Jews 20th-century cellists