He became one of the best known virtuoso cellists of his time.
In addition, among instruments with an early starting age, there is a negative relationship between early start and high grades among violinists and cellist, and a positive relationship for pianists.
The cellist is furthermore anchored, if in good playing posture, with both feet on the floor and the cello firmly secure between the legs, so lateral movement is difficult.
That he owned one in 1787 suggests that, despite his apparent abandonment of a virtuoso career after 1770, he continued to take himself seriously as a cellist.
When for two cellists the visual expressiveness had been rated as rather neutral (low average), the emotional level was rated somewhat higher for aural presentation than for audio-visual presentation.
The instrument without a full resonating body will be acoustically limited, and many pick-ups will miss the full range of audio that is produced by a skilled cellist.
As always, the cellists are exempted from this consideration.
That gainsaid, he ensured with this concert that another, younger, solo cellist took the work into her repertoire.
