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Nölck

August Nölck (1862–1928) was a German cellist, pianist, and composer who studied at the Bernuthsche Konservatorium in Hamburg before establishing himself within the Dresden School of cello playing, a tradition that ran directly through to Pablo Casals and Emanuel Feuermann. He composed over three hundred works in the Romantic style of Brahms, Schumann, and Mendelssohn, covering concertos, gavottes, waltzes, mazurkas, and a great deal besides. Most of this output was lost in the upheavals of two World Wars; the works that have survived and been recovered are those he composed in Venezuela, a detail as unexpected as it is unexplained.

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